Unity 2019.1 ships
Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
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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
Luxion ships KeyShot 8.2
Latest update to the renderer adds the option to pause offline renders, better support for Alembic files, and network rendering on Linux.
Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
Watch a complete guide to lighting in Unreal Engine
Master key lighting tools and techniques in UE4 with The Gnomon Workshop's training video.
Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
Notch Builder lets you author motion graphics in real time
Interesting new tool lets users link cloners, particles, fluids and volumetrics and see the results rendered on the fly.
Thursday, September 20th, 2018
Unity 2018.1 is now shipping. Check out the highlights here
It's a huge update, so get up to speed faster with our run-down of the key features for CG artists.
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
Godot team ships Godot 3.0
Big update to the open-source game engine to add new PBR renderer, new audio engine, visual scripting, and early VR support.
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
Unity Technologies releases Unity 2017.1
Update to game engine adds new cinematics tools, improved sprite editing, particles and animation.
Wednesday, July 12th, 2017
Sneak peek: Unity 2017.1's powerful new cinematics tools
Watch 30 minutes of footage of the Timeline editor, Cinemachine 2.0 procedural camera system, and 16K video recorder.
Wednesday, June 28th, 2017
Sneak peek: Blender's new Eevee real-time render engine
Check out the feature set for the new, not-quite-PBR real-time render engine due in Blender 2.8 this year.
Friday, March 24th, 2017
Silicon Studio to release Xenko game engine commercially
Open source C# engine from firm behind Final Fantasy XV's render tech to go commercial in April.
Friday, February 24th, 2017
Render Legion releases first Mac build of Corona for C4D
Free Alpha 6 build of the Cinema 4D renderer also adds the features from the latest 3ds Max release.
Tuesday, December 27th, 2016
Unity Technologies reveals 2017 Unity product roadmap
See all the new features due in Unity 5.6 and beyond - including a free integration of OctaneRender.
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016