Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23
Game engine gets eagerly anticipated Chaos destruction physics toolset, new virtual production tools.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2019
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Sketchfab's models of the month: August 2019
See the month's best real-time 3D models, from magical character art to the British city of Birmingham.
Monday, September 2nd, 2019
Get promising Maya real-time Boolean plugin speedCut
Get Joe Wu's neat non-destructive real-time Boolean modelling add-on, currently in free open beta.
Wednesday, August 21st, 2019
Epic Games releases free TwinMotion update
Real-time visualisation software gets new SketchUp live link, plus 25 new readymade grass assets.
Monday, August 19th, 2019
Sketchfab's models of the month: July 2019
See the month's best 3D models, including this Storm King character, available to download for free.
Wednesday, August 7th, 2019
Blender 2.80 ships
Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.4
Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Otoy launches new free Prime usage tier for OctaneRender
New free editions of the renderer for Unreal Engine and Blender 2.80 available as early public previews.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Reallusion releases iClone Unreal Live Link
Plugin transfers iClone characters, lights and cameras to UE4 for real-time rendering, but it isn't cheap.
Friday, July 26th, 2019
Autodesk joins Khronos Group
FBX developer to join open standards body's 3D Formats Working Group to support development of the glTF file format.
Thursday, July 25th, 2019
Check out 'cinematography simulator' Cine Tracer
Interesting UE4-based tool lets users plan shots using CG versions of real-world lights and cameras.
Thursday, July 18th, 2019
First release candidate for Blender 2.80 now available
The almost-final version of the long-awaited major update to Blender is now free to download.
Friday, July 12th, 2019
RayFire Studios releases RayFire for Unity
New Unity edition of the popular 3ds Max destruction tool lets users destroy 3D geometry at runtime.
Monday, July 1st, 2019