Free tools: Render Manager and Light Editor for Blender
VFX artist Robert Rioux's handy add-ons streamline the process of managing lights and render layers within complex production scenes.
Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
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Unreal Engine 5.5: discover 10 key features for CG artists
Read our pick of the features in this huge update to the game engine, from MegaLights to character rigging, animation and rendering.
Thursday, November 14th, 2024
Unreal Engine 5.4: five key features for CG artists
Read our pick of the new features in UE5, from Motion Graphics Mode and modular character rigging to virtual production and VFX.
Monday, April 29th, 2024
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.7
Update makes the full Professional edition of the landscape generator available to indie artists for just $199. Check out the new features here.
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
The Gnomon Workshop ships Introduction to Maya 2023
Master modelling, animation, lighting and rendering in Maya with this three-part series of tutorials.
Saturday, September 3rd, 2022
Adobe ships Substance 3D Stager 1.1
Scene layout and rendering app gets key workflow improvements - and a new $150 perpetual licence.
Wednesday, November 24th, 2021
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Maya Update 2
Renderer gets new decal system, support for USD lights, access to the Chaos Cosmos asset library.
Friday, November 12th, 2021
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
PSOFT releases Pencil+ 4 for Maya
Try the new Maya edition of the Japanese cel shading plugin, as used on Dragon Ball Super: Broly.
Monday, October 29th, 2018
NewTek previews LightWave Next
Updated: Check out the neat new cel-shading options coming up in the next release of LightWave.
Thursday, March 16th, 2017
NewTek previews LightWave 2016
Updated: See the new scene editor and a side-by-side performance comparison with LightWave 2015.
Tuesday, March 29th, 2016