Unity reveals 2021 roadmap
See the new tools for games artists due in Unity 2020 LTS, 2021.1 and 2021.2 - plus a bonus for anyone with a free Personal subscription.
Friday, August 14th, 2020
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Pixologic ships ZBrush 2021
Big update to the digital sculpting tool adds complete cloth creation and soft body dynamics toolset. Check out all the features here.
Wednesday, August 12th, 2020
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2020.2
Intuitive real-time visualisation tool gets new animation features, better water and vehicle paint materials.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
KeenTools ships FaceBuilder 2.1 for Nuke and Blender
Neat add-on for creating 3D head models from images now works with photos from multiple cameras.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
Foundry unveils Katana 4.0
Big update to the lighting and look dev tool to add new 'artist-focused' lighting workflows, support for multiple simultaneous test renders.
Monday, August 10th, 2020
Toolchefs updates free open beta of Atoms Unreal
New UE4 plugin for Atoms Crowd promises to create large real-time crowd sims on consumer PCs.
Saturday, August 8th, 2020
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Maya
Now shipping: check out the new features in the next big update to the Maya edition of the renderer.
Friday, August 7th, 2020
Autodesk ships Arnold 6.0.4
Big update cuts render times on modern multi-core CPUs; adds new IPR window for 3ds Max users, and new Cinema 4D scattering system.
Thursday, August 6th, 2020
Sneak peeks: Adobe's 2020 R&D projects for 3D graphics
See Adobe's latest 3D research: from parametric modeling to a new real-time physically based renderer.
Friday, July 31st, 2020
Sneak peek: Substance Alchemist's IBL creation system
New feature in Adobe's material authoring app will turn source photos into HDR environments.
Friday, July 31st, 2020
LuxCoreRender 2.4 and BlendLuxCore 2.4 ship
Open-source renderer gets faster GPU rendering, plus support for Blender's mantaflow smoke sims.
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2020.2
3D texture painting software gets long-awaited ability to paint across UDIM tiles. Check out the other new features here.
Friday, July 24th, 2020
Discover five key features for CG artists in Unity 2020.1
Read our run-down of the key new features in the game engine, from better ray tracing to AI-driven character posing.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2020