CG Channel

Sapphire

Buyout will put the competing Boris Continuum Complete and Sapphire collections of compositing and editorial plugins under a single roof.

Friday, September 9th, 2016

Suite of plugins for editing and compositing tools gets four diverse new effects, plus advanced options for building your own.

Friday, October 9th, 2015

Updated: Latest free update adds new Star Wars-style title crawl and support for DaVinci Resolve 11.

Monday, March 2nd, 2015

Updated: New node-based Builder lets users create custom effects for host compositing and editing apps.

Sunday, December 21st, 2014

We round up the tools most relevant to CG Channel, including Sapphire 7 and SliceX powered by mocha.

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

See the key features in the game engine and real-time renderer, from better 3D water to Variable Rate Shading and Deferred+ rendering.

Friday, April 25th, 2025

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including nifty new Select Details options in the AI-based Object Selection tool.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Update to the renderer adds over 3,100 Chaos Scans materials to the Cosmos library, and improves DoF and volumetric effects.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Get JustB Studios' 1850s Post Office Environment pack of 3D assets for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace. For commercial use.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025