AMD unveils Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs
New 'Big Navi' cards go up against Nvidia's GeForce RTX GPUs - and feature dedicated ray tracing cores.
Thursday, October 29th, 2020
Unity
SideFX ships Houdini 18.5
Big update to the procedural 3D software adds KineFX character rigging toolset; updates to Solaris, Karma and the simulation tools.
Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
Check out fast 3ds Max cloth simulation plugin Dynamo
Deform Dynamics' real-time cloth simulation tool performs '10-100x faster' than Max's Cloth modifier.
Friday, October 9th, 2020
OctaneRender users to get World Creator for free
All part of a deal between Otoy and BiteTheBytes to link the GPU-based renderer and terrain generator.
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Nvidia announces Omniverse open beta
USD-based 'open collaboration' platform for CG work will become free to individual users this fall.
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Nukeygara releases Akeytsu 2020.2
Major update to the character animation app adds support for retargeting and camera animation.
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Rokoko launches Smartgloves
Neat $995 inertial mocap gloves can be used to stream hand and finger tracking data live to apps like Maya, Blender, Unity and UE4.
Thursday, September 17th, 2020
AutoMAT makes Marmoset Toolbag materials for you
Neat €3 plugin assembles folders of texture maps into PBR materials for 'even the messiest scenes'.
Thursday, September 10th, 2020
Unity Technologies files for IPO
Unity has 1.5 million users and is used to create over half the games released, but the firm still made a loss of $163.2 million last year.
Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
Download KitBash3D's free Neo City buildings kit
Get futuristic 3D buildings in the native formats of 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Maya, Houdini, UE4 and Unity. For commercial use.
Monday, August 17th, 2020
Unity reveals 2021 roadmap
See the new tools for games artists due in Unity 2020 LTS, 2021.1 and 2021.2 - plus a bonus for anyone with a free Personal subscription.
Friday, August 14th, 2020
Check out neat new procedural tree toolset GrowInfinite
Set of 37 HDAs generates detailed tree growth animations in Houdini or Houdini Engine-compatible apps and game engines.
Wednesday, August 12th, 2020
Discover five key features for CG artists in Unity 2020.1
Read our run-down of the key new features in the game engine, from better ray tracing to AI-driven character posing.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2020