Tachyon Render promises real-time PBR in Cinema 4D
Promising new C4D renderer uses game engine techniques for fast, accurate physically based shading.
Friday, March 11th, 2016
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See more details of the new features in Modo 10.0v1
Update will improve look dev and asset export to UE4 and Unity 5, streamline baking, enhance vertex normal editing.
Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
Gnomon releases Octane Render for Maya training
Six-hour tutorial provides a full guide to shading, lighting and rendering with Otoy's GPU-based renderer.
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
Get Allan McKay's free tower destruction tutorial
Download the FX guru's eight-hour series of Max, thinkingParticles and FumeFX videos, with project files.
Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
FXhome ships HitFilm 4 Pro
Editing, compositing and effects app gets new 3D rendering, animation options, plus $299 Boris FX titling plugin 3D Objects thrown in free.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2015
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Nuke
Edit V-Ray lights, materials and render properties directly inside Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2015
See Gnomon's Best of Term Winter 2015 award winners
Check out the best recent CG work created by students at the school, from FX to character modelling.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2015
CoreCG halves price of MentalCore 1.7 for Maya
Cost of the new version of the mental ray rendering toolkit cut to $99 for a node-locked licence.
Tuesday, July 8th, 2014
Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 4.1
Games texturing tool gets new baking options and ability to group nodes. Eight new video tutorials, too.
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
See Unreal Engine 4 run on Nvidia's new Tegra K1
New 192-core mobile GPU beats last-gen consoles, brings high-end PC graphics to tablets, claims Nvidia.
Monday, January 6th, 2014
CoreCG releases MentalCore 1.5 for Maya
Mental ray rendering toolkit gets new Light Select and Diagnostic passes, better architectural light shader.
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX
Much-anticipated genre-breaking 2D/3D package priced at $2,995: download the free PLE version now.
Monday, December 24th, 2012
CoreCG ships MentalCore rendering plugin for Maya
Updated: shading and lighting tool now officially shipping and updated for improved Maya Hair support.
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012