Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2.1
Material authoring tool gets new export window with presets for UE4, Unity and common renderers.
Friday, March 13th, 2020
Redshift
Future Mac versions of Cinema 4D will need Metal support
Controversial macOS Catalina update recommended for anyone wanting to use Cinema 4D R22.
Friday, February 21st, 2020
Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range gaming GPU performs in our real-world 3D and GPU rendering tests.
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2019
Watch the best tech breakdowns of 2019, as determined by 120,000 CG Channel Facebook followers.
Sunday, January 12th, 2020
Ephere ships Ornatrix C4D 1.0
New Cinema 4D edition of the popular hair, fur and feather simulation plugin works with both Arnold and Redshift out of the box.
Tuesday, January 7th, 2020
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R21.1
Update adds support for Redshift materials within the node-based material system, and restores the option to view help files offline.
Thursday, December 5th, 2019
The best Black Friday and winter 2019 deals for CG artists
Save money this month with these great seasonal deals on CG software, hardware and assets.
Friday, November 29th, 2019
SideFX ships Houdini 18
Major update to Houdini adds new look dev and layout system Solaris, USD-native renderer Karma, new modelling and simulation tools.
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Nvidia drops macOS support for CUDA
This week's 10.2 release of CUDA Toolkit, used by many GPU render engines, is the last to run on Macs.
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
Foundry ships Mari 4.6
Update extends the 3D texturing app's procedural materials system, adds V-Ray and 3Delight shaders, and streamlines the node graph.
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
Group test: Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX GPUs
Which Nvidia GPU is best for DCC work? Jason Lewis benchmarks the firm's new Turing graphics cards.
Friday, October 11th, 2019
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R21
Release scraps the four lower-end editions of the software and introduces new subscription plans. See all of the new features here.
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 3.5
Sizeable update to the Maya fur and feathers plugin adds support for Alembic and OpenColorIO, plus new volumetric hair guide model.
Wednesday, August 21st, 2019