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
SpeedTree
IDV ships SpeedTree 8.4
Games edition of the tree-generation tool gets new wind animation algorithm, better texture atlas generation. Smaller updates to the Cinema edition.
Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
IDV ships SpeedTree Engine for Clarisse iFX
New version of the tree-creation tech lets users generate variant trees and animation inside Clarisse.
Thursday, January 17th, 2019
SpeedTree Cinema 8.2 ships
Tree-creation software gets new toolset for blending meshes captured via photogrammetry into its procedurally generated trees.
Thursday, January 17th, 2019
Reallusion ships iClone 7.4 and launches iClone Open
New open Python API will let developers create custom tools for the real-time animation software.
Sunday, January 6th, 2019
Eye candy: IDV's epic 2018 SpeedTree VFX showreel
Watch innocent CG trees meet their ends at the hands of superheroes, spacecraft crashes and King Kong.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2018
See the top five new features in Lumberyard in 2017
Read Amazon's list of key changes to its free AAA game engine, plus our pick of the best of the rest.
Sunday, December 24th, 2017
IDV ships SpeedTree Cinema 8
Update to the tree-generation tool adds PBR support; new modelling, animation and export options. Price of a perpetual licence down $500.
Thursday, October 26th, 2017
Eye candy: the 2016 SpeedTree VFX showreel
See amazing movie shots created with the digital vegetation tool, from Avatar to The Force Awakens.
Monday, August 1st, 2016
F12 releases The Grove
Create realistic vegetation for use in Blender or export to other DCC apps with this neat new tree generator.
Monday, October 5th, 2015
Unity Technologies releases Unity 5
Now shipping: leading game engine gets real-time GI, physically based shading, new audio-editing tools.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015
IDV launches SpeedTree Modeler for Unity 5
Create unique trees complete with LoDs, collision primitives and wind forces for use with the Unity 5 beta.
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
Reallusion 'pre-launches' iClone 6
Update to real-time animation app adds support for PhysX, SpeedTree plants, Allegorithmic Substances.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014