Esri ships CityEngine 2019.0
Procedural city generation software gets support for PBR materials, glTF export, improved integration with Houdini and Unreal Studio.
Thursday, May 16th, 2019
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Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Modo
Modo edition of the renderer gets new scene intelligence features, faster GPU rendering, new rolling shutter effect.
Thursday, April 25th, 2019
Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.22
Real-time visualisation platform gets hardware-accelerated ray tracing, option to import simple 3ds Max animations.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
Foundry ships Mari 4.5
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
Get 380 free PBR texture sets from cgbookcase.com
Download texture maps of natural and man-made materials at up to 4K resolution under a CC0 licence.
Sunday, March 24th, 2019
Quixel releases Mixer 2019
Big update adds parametric authoring and image-to-PBR-material conversion to the scan blending tool, now in free beta.
Friday, March 15th, 2019
Godot team ships Godot 3.1
Open-source game engine gets new Boolean modelling system, soft body dynamics, plus revamped 2D and 3D animation toolsets.
Thursday, March 14th, 2019
Download 56 free PBR fabric materials for Unreal Engine
Get games artist Ronan Mahon's free set of 4K PBR materials based on 3D scans of real-world fabrics.
Monday, March 4th, 2019
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.10 for 3ds Max and Blender
Tool for converting 3D scenes into interactive web apps gets support for VR and AR devices via WebXR.
Monday, February 11th, 2019
The best Black Friday and winter 2018 deals for CG artists
Updated with a new batch of winter offers: save money on CG software and resources with these deals.
Friday, December 21st, 2018
Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 3.6 SP7
Free update to the look dev and rendering system adds support for Disney's principled shader model.
Friday, December 21st, 2018
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.9 for Blender and 3ds Max
3ds Max edition now shipping: tool for converting 3D scenes to WebGL apps gets HDR render pipeline.
Friday, December 21st, 2018
Uppercut launches U-Render in early access
Hotly tipped real-time Cinema 4D PBR render engine gets first paid release. Version 1.0 due next year.
Monday, December 17th, 2018