Watch the Siggraph 2015 animation festival winners
See the best CG work produced throughout the world this year: from indie shorts to medical animations.
Tuesday, July 28th, 2015
visualization
E-on software releases LumenRT 2015.5 line-up
Update to real-time visualisation tools boosts playback performance, adds integration with PlantFactory.
Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
Luxion unveils KeyShot 6
New video: next update to the renderer to add node-based material system, interior lighting, region rendering.
Tuesday, June 9th, 2015
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 5
Big update readies real-time image-based lighting design tool for serious VFX work, including Alembic and FBX support.
Thursday, May 14th, 2015
E-on software releases LumenRT VIZ for free
New non-commercial edition gives SketchUp users free access to e-on's real-time rendering system.
Thursday, March 12th, 2015
Epic to offer $50,000 grants for indie Unreal projects
Money available for shorts and visualisations as well as games - and even student class projects.
Friday, February 20th, 2015
Google Earth Pro goes free to use
Plan location shoots or visualisation work accurately with the formerly $399-a-year 3D mapping system.
Monday, February 2nd, 2015
Download 12 free cutout people from VIShopper
High-resolution, supplied in PSD format with separate shadow layers and licensed for commercial use.
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
e-on ships LumenRT Studio 2015 and GeoDesign 2015
Real-time visualisation tools get new 'DIVE' core engine, bringing in tech from Vue and PlantFactory.
Friday, October 31st, 2014
Watch the Siggraph 2014 animation festival winners
Not all of them can be shown online in full yet, but we've got extended clips and making-ofs for the others.
Saturday, July 19th, 2014
Download 9 free photo cutouts of people
Get artist Krzysztof Czerwiński's collection of alpha-masked people, all licensed for commercial use.
Tuesday, July 1st, 2014
Autodesk buys the Bitsquid game engine
Technology from next-gen console and PC engine to be used to create new real-time 3D visualisation tools.
Monday, June 9th, 2014
cebas ships moskitoRender for 3ds Max
Much-anticipated GPU renderer offers unusual materials-agnostic workflow, competitive €295 price.
Wednesday, May 28th, 2014