How to design animation backgrounds in Blender
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create a futuristic city using the open-source 3D app.
Monday, May 30th, 2022
texturing
Discover how to create a stylized 3D character
Master current character design tools and workflows with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Sunday, May 22nd, 2022
Marmoset ships Toolbag 4.04
Real-time rendering toolkit gets physically accurate DoF, lens flares and motion blur. GPU ray tracing now supported on AMD hardware.
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 12.1
Material-authoring software gets USD import and export, new nodes to create and render 3D textures.
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
Adobe ships Photoshop 23.3
Update makes it possible to paste live text from Illustrator and adds multithreaded compositing, but removes the Shake Reduction filter.
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
Master creature modelling with ZBrush and Marmoset Toolbag
Create this ultra-realistic 3D mantis with Eric Keller's detailed new tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.
Sunday, April 3rd, 2022
Autodesk ships Maya 2023
3D modelling and animation app gets new Blue Pencil annotation toolset, plus updates to Boolean modelling, retopology and Bifrost.
Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
Eye candy: Gnomon's gorgeous 2022 Student Reel
Watch a seven-minute compilation of new art and animation from students at the leading CG school.
Monday, March 14th, 2022
Blender 3.1 ships
Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D software, from faster renders in Cycles to new procedural modelling nodes.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
See the new sculpting features due in Blender in 2022
3D painting directly in Sculpt mode and interactive previews in Eevee due in the open-source 3D app in the next few releases.
Monday, February 21st, 2022
Adobe ships Photoshop 23.2
Latest update to the digital painting and image editing software adds native WebP support, and improves GPU use in the Oil Paint filter.
Thursday, February 17th, 2022
5 steps to creating convincing photorealistic 3D portraits
Discover how to model, texture and light ultra-realistic 3D characters with tips from leading CG artists.
Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
See the 2022 Blender development roadmap
Blender Institute names its four main development targets for the open-source 3D software in 2022.
Tuesday, January 18th, 2022