Discover how to create game-ready foliage
Model and texture 3D plants for Unreal Engine with The Gnomon Workshop's new beginner's guide.
Thursday, November 19th, 2020
Unreal Engine
Epic Games becomes minority investor in SideFX
Industry giant takes stake in the Houdini developer, but no changes to the product roadmap expected.
Monday, November 16th, 2020
Which CG applications support Apple's new M1 chips?
Discover which 3D, image-editing and rendering apps will support the first Apple Silicon processors when they ship next week.
Friday, November 13th, 2020
Esri ships CityEngine 2020.1
Procedural city generation tool can now import assets in USD format for VFX work, and generate LODs automatically for Unreal Engine.
Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
Pixar ships RenderMan 23.5
Update to the production renderer adds new motion blur algorithm for volumes, and improves support for Houdini's Solaris layout toolset.
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020
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
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
Snappers unveils Snappers Wrinkles Designer
Crazy new Maya toolset will let you design wrinkles for 3D characters interactively and export to UE4.
Friday, October 16th, 2020
Get Quixel's free Megascans plugin for Unreal Engine
Version 6.3 of the free plugin adds neat new vertex blend material, better LOD export for 3D plants.
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
Nuke and Unreal Engine win 2020 tech Emmy Awards
Compositing app and virtual-set-powering game engine honored for their impact on the TV industry.
Monday, October 12th, 2020
Download 70 free low-poly 3D plant models
Get 70 free real-time 3D models of temperate grasses and flowers, created by artist Erhan Yilmaz.
Friday, October 9th, 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