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Reallusion makes plugin originally priced at $1,490 free to artists earning less than $100,000/year.

Monday, January 20th, 2020

Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.

Monday, January 13th, 2020

Watch the best tech breakdowns of 2019, as determined by 120,000 CG Channel Facebook followers.

Sunday, January 12th, 2020

Neat 'open use' tool exports 3D terrains or heightmaps to DCC tools and game engines, at up to 65K resolution.

Friday, January 10th, 2020

Use the entire Megascans library for free in Unreal Engine via the newly rewritten, C++ based UE4 plugin for Quixel's asset manager.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2019

See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from landscape editing to 3D text.

Sunday, December 15th, 2019

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

GPU renderer gets updated RTX acceleration, new spectral sky and daylight system, ACES support.

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019

Save money this month with these great seasonal deals on CG software, hardware and assets.

Friday, November 29th, 2019

Real-time visualisation platform's Datasmith toolkit will become part of UE4, not as a paid-for service.

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

All 10,000-plus Megascans assets to be made free to Unreal Engine users; Quixel Mixer and Bridge to be released free for everyone.

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

Updated: October 2019 release adds support for additive layers to the unconventional animation tool.

Tuesday, October 29th, 2019

Uncover the secrets of Gearbox Software's real-time VFX pipeline at a free event at Gnomon next month or watch it online.

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019