Godot 3.2 ships
Leading open-source game engine gets revamped shader editor, glTF 2.0 and FBX import, and a new pseudo-3D system for 2D games.
Thursday, January 30th, 2020
virtual reality
Master new 3D and VR workflows for mech design
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial Designing a Piloted Combat Mech provides over 10 hours of training.
Friday, January 3rd, 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
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.24
See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from landscape editing to 3D text.
Sunday, December 15th, 2019
Adobe acquires Medium
Firm acquires VR modelling and painting app from Facebook. Some staff to move to Adobe to work on the 'next generation of 3D tools'.
Tuesday, December 10th, 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
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
Foundry ships Nuke 12.0, NukeX 12.0, Nuke Studio 12.0
Base edition of the software gets neat Healing Brush-like Inpaint node; NukeX gets VR compositing tools from Cara VR.
Sunday, September 29th, 2019
See every new Unity feature from Unite Copenhagen 2019
Check out our handy run-down of the new simulation, graphics and AR tools announced at this week's Unity user event.
Wednesday, September 25th, 2019
Luxion ships KeyVR 9.0
Fall 2019 update to the virtual reality add-on for the KeyShot renderer improves the display of glass and transparent materials.
Tuesday, September 24th, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 13.1
It's mainly a performance release, but there are new modelling and character rigging tools, plus support for the AxF material format.
Friday, August 16th, 2019
Unity 2019.2 ships
Now shipping: Game engine gets support for denoising lightmaps on CPU and GPU. 3D sculpting tool Polybrush now integrated natively.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Trimble ships SketchUp 2019.2
Architectural modelling software gets new line weight control for exported images, plus option to set up multiple measurement units.
Monday, July 22nd, 2019