Thinkinetic ships Pulldownit 5 for 3ds Max and Maya
Updated: 3ds Max edition available. Check out the new features in the shattering and dynamics plugin.
Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
visual effects
Autodesk ships Arnold 7.0
Major update to the renderer adds Open Image Denoise and real-time colour correction, and extends Arnold GPU and USD workflows.
Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
Blender 3.1 to introduce native Metal support in Cycles
New macOS backend unveiled as Apple becomes a Corporate Patron of the Blender Development Fund.
Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 7.3
3D texture painting app gets new Warp and Cylindrical projection modes, revamped colour picker.
Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Autodesk ships Flame 2022.2
Compositing, finishing and effects software gets eight new advanced colour correction curve types and support for 12G SDI video output.
Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs - 2021
See how Nvidia and AMD's current pro GPUs perform in real-world tests, from modeling to rendering.
Thursday, October 14th, 2021
Arnold and V-Ray win Engineering Emmy Awards
Renderers win primetime Emmy Awards alongside crowd simulation tools Massive and Golaem Crowd.
Monday, October 11th, 2021
Watch VIEW Conference 2021 for free
See the international VFX and animation conference free online, or in person in Turin from 17-22 October 2021.
Sunday, October 10th, 2021
Discover expert techniques for building 3D environments
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial provides time-saving tricks for Clarisse, Houdini and SpeedTree.
Friday, October 8th, 2021
Rookies 2021 rankings reveal world's best CG schools
The US's SCAD places first overall. See the category winners for animation, game design and VFX.
Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
Autodesk adds Resource Planning Views to ShotGrid
Production tracking system's new high-level overviews show which artists in a studio are over- or under-worked.
Tuesday, September 28th, 2021
Discover how to clean up 3D scans for production
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to prepare 3D scans for use in production pipelines.
Monday, September 27th, 2021
Autodesk ships Maya 2022.2
Check out the new features in the 3D modelling and animation software, including new scaling controls for the Solidify deformer.
Thursday, September 23rd, 2021