CG Channel

Unreal Engine 5.8

Epic Games' free mocap plugin extracts full-body and finger motion from phone or camera footage to transfer to MetaHuman characters.

Thursday, June 18th, 2026

Image editing software now supports OCIO 2.5 - and lets you use custom AI models trained on your own images with Generate Image.

Thursday, June 18th, 2026

New features in the compositing and motion graphics app include DoF in the Advanced 3D renderer and a new Curl Noise effect.

Thursday, June 18th, 2026

Read our pick of the latest features in Unreal Engine, from Mesh Terrain to MetaHuman Crowds, by way of new rigging and animation tools.

Wednesday, June 17th, 2026

Blender version of the renderer also gets a new Node Wrangler and GPU rendering on AMD GPUs, including in the free Community Edition.

Tuesday, June 16th, 2026

New version of the terrain design software adds new macro system and 16K baking, but release dates for Gaea 2.4 and 3.0 pushed back.

Monday, June 15th, 2026

Major update to the 3D modeling and animation software adds new physics-based layout, rigging, VFX and camera tracking tools.

Monday, June 15th, 2026