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Watch the best tech breakdowns of 2019, as determined by 120,000 CG Channel Facebook followers.

Sunday, January 12th, 2020

Watch an eye-catching two-minute round-up of the best animation and VFX from China, Japan and Korea.

Wednesday, January 1st, 2020

All-in-one production platform pitched as a complete visual effects studio in the cloud shuts just 18 months after its commercial launch.

Thursday, November 7th, 2019

Update extends the 3D texturing app's procedural materials system, adds V-Ray and 3Delight shaders, and streamlines the node graph.

Wednesday, November 6th, 2019

See breakdowns of 10 key movies, TV series and ads created in V-Ray from Chaos Group's 2019 showreel.

Monday, August 12th, 2019

See Substance Painter's upcoming UV unfolding toolset, plus seamless texture painting across UDIM tiles.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Production renderer gets new Mari integration plugin, hdPrman plugin to render USD files, PxrCurvature for creating edge wear effects.

Monday, July 29th, 2019

Leading visual effects software firm's new boss previously worked at ILM, Lucasfilm, Digital Domain.

Wednesday, July 17th, 2019

Open-source subdivision library used in many DCC tools now supports same feature set for Loop and Catmull-Clark subdivision.

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019

Big update to 3D texture painting software adds entire new material system for roughing out the look of assets, plus new Arnold shader.

Friday, March 29th, 2019

Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Diversified tech firm to buy Nuke and Modo developer from current owner Hg in £410 million deal.

Tuesday, March 19th, 2019

Image Engine grooming artist Jordan Soler's new Gnomon tutorial provides a complete guide to Maya's fur toolset.

Saturday, January 26th, 2019