Unity 2019.3 ships
Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs.
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
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Watch The Heretic, Unity's beautiful new CG short
See the latest Unity demo short, showcasing advances in real-time shading for hair, eyes and cloth.
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
Check out open-source 3D painting tool ArmorPaint
Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.
Monday, January 13th, 2020
Masterpiece VR launches Masterpiece Studio
New VR tool suite lets users sculpt, rig and pose 3D characters via Oculus or HTC Vive controllers
Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
StemCell converts 3ds Max, Maya files to UE4 and Unity
Updated: TurboSquid tech converts files in the native format of one 3D app to that of another. Now also exports USDZ files.
Thursday, December 5th, 2019
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2020.1 in public preview
GPU renderer gets updated RTX acceleration, new spectral sky and daylight system, ACES support.
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
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
Xenko team ships Xenko 3.1
C#-based open-source 2D and 3D game engine gets its first major update since being made available under an MIT licence last year.
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Real-time ray tracing, Havok physics due in Unity this year
Updated: Havok Physics now out as a preview package. DXR ray tracing also available in preview.
Thursday, November 7th, 2019
Nukeygara unveils the 2019 Akeytsu product roadmap
Updated: October 2019 release adds support for additive layers to the unconventional animation tool.
Tuesday, October 29th, 2019
Unity subscription prices to rise in 2020
Cost of new Plus subscriptions to rise 14%; new Pro subscriptions up 20%. Existing subs unaffected.
Friday, October 18th, 2019
Group test: Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX GPUs
Which Nvidia GPU is best for DCC work? Jason Lewis benchmarks the firm's new Turing graphics cards.
Friday, October 11th, 2019
Reallusion ships iClone 7.6 and Character Creator 3.1
iClone gets batch rendering and support for IES lights. Character Creator gets new LOD options.
Friday, September 13th, 2019