Hair Cinematic Tool 2.0 simplifies hair shading in Unreal Engine 5
Argentum Studio's in-house tool simplifies the process of lighting and rendering hair and fur in Unreal Engine 5.5. Free for a month.
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
Unreal Engine 5
Get the free version of ZibraVDB for Unreal Engine and Houdini
Updated: free version of the real-time volumetric effects tool for games and virtual production is now available for Houdini as well as Unreal Engine.
Friday, April 18th, 2025
Character Creator gets new free MetaTailor plugin
Add-on lets you send characters from Character Creator to MetaTailor with one-click, fit 3D clothing to them, then send them back to CC4.
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.22
Check out the latest features in the VR modeling software. New Connector plugin syncing Modeler to Unreal Engine 5 now in beta.
Friday, April 11th, 2025
Free tool: get character animation from Cinema 4D to Unreal Engine
Big update to the Cineware for Unreal plugin makes it possible to transfer rigged and animated characters to Unreal Engine 5.5.
Sunday, April 6th, 2025
Polygonflow releases new free version of Dash
Use the powerful Content Browser from the Unreal Engine 5 world-building tool free indefinitely. Comes with thousands of free 3D assets.
Sunday, March 23rd, 2025
Assetify 2.1 converts Blender assets to game-ready formats
Asset baking and export add-on can now bake PBR textures from any Blender shader set-up, not just the Principled BSDF shader.
Saturday, March 15th, 2025
Polygonflow releases Dash 1.9
Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool, including Runtime Virtual Texturing and an Advanced Water Shader.
Thursday, March 13th, 2025
AMD releases Capsaicin 1.2
Check out the new features in the modular, open-source, hardware-agnostic framework for developing real-time rendering technology.
Saturday, March 8th, 2025
See CG benchmarks for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs
Discover how NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs performed in CG software like 3ds Max, Arnold, Blender, Maya, UE5 and V-Ray in our early tests.
Friday, February 7th, 2025
Tutorial: Creating Runtime Cinematics in Unreal Engine 5
Master key workflows for integrating character animation into interactive gameplay in UE5 with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Saturday, January 25th, 2025
Download free Houdini tools from SideFX's Project Grot
Updated: Get tools for generating procedural ruins, bridges - and even procedural flesh - from the Houdini-to-UE5 game environment demo.
Wednesday, January 8th, 2025
Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday 2024 deals for CG artists
Updated 24 December: Find discounts on CG hardware and software available until New Year, including 3DCoat, FumeFX and Yeti.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2024