Check out the free artist talks at Substance Days 2017
Learn from top Substance Painter and Designer artists at Gnomon's Hollywood campus from 27-29 July. Watch free online.
Sunday, July 16th, 2017
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Marmoset ships Toolbag 3.03
New beta of real-time rendering toolkit restores the macOS build, adds support for Python scripting.
Thursday, July 13th, 2017
Act-3D releases Lumion 7.5
Free update to the real-time visualisation tool adds 52 new stock interior materials, better support for non-square textures.
Monday, July 10th, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3 for Rhino
Latest Rhino edition of the renderer gets 500 readymade materials; V-Ray Swarm distributed rendering.
Sunday, April 9th, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3 for SketchUp
Update adds new UI, new library of 200 physically based materials, V-Ray Swarm distributed rendering.
Thursday, March 9th, 2017
Master lighting and rendering in Unreal Engine 4
Visit Epic Games' free two-hour masterclass at Gnomon's LA campus next Friday, 3 February. Watch online for free.
Friday, January 27th, 2017
Adobe releases Project Felix in beta
Simple rendering and compositing app is free to anyone with a current paid Creative Cloud subscription.
Friday, December 23rd, 2016
Act-3D releases Lumion 7.0
Real-time visualization app adds subsurface scattering, new procedural weathering system. Pro users also get procedural foliage.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2016
Pixologic unveils ZBrushCore
Updated with details of the full feature set: check out which tools are included in the new $150 edition of ZBrush - and what isn't.
Friday, September 30th, 2016
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.13
New features in varied update range from Alembic support to the option to paint meshes inside the VR Editor.
Thursday, September 8th, 2016
Review: Iray for 3ds Max
Jason Lewis benchmarks the new, more powerful plugin version of Nvidia's GPU-based renderer with a range of real-world graphics cards.
Thursday, July 14th, 2016
Pixar unveils RenderMan 21
'Game-changing' update to renderer will feature GPU-accelerated Denoise, OSL support, new materials and lighting workflows.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
Gnomon releases detailed Introduction to V-Ray
Get up to speed with the renderer with Psyop CG supervisor Stephen DeLalla's 10-hour training course.
Friday, February 12th, 2016