LuxCoreRender 2.5 and BlendLuxCore 2.5 ship
Wide-ranging update to the open-source renderer and its Blender plugin adds RTX acceleration, new stereo cameras.
Monday, April 12th, 2021
VR
Reallusion releases Character Creator 3.4
Real-time 3D character-creation tool gets new Smart Hair system of modular hairstyles and facial hair.
Thursday, March 25th, 2021
Autodesk ships Maya 2022
Sizeable update to the 3D software adds 'full USD integration', new VR modelling app, and new character rigging and animation features.
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
Master concept modelling in virtual reality
Create a vehicle using free VR design tool Gravity Sketch in The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.
Thursday, March 11th, 2021
Discover how to optimise games in Unreal Engine
Fix performance bottlenecks and optimise art assets in UE4 with The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.
Thursday, March 4th, 2021
Download VR modelling tool Gravity Sketch for free
Powerful virtual reality design tool now free to individual artists, including OBJ, FBX, IGES export.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
Tilt Brush goes open source
Google stops development of its virtual reality 3D painting and concept art app, but users can now compile it free from source code.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
BRIO's Ultra Render does path traced rendering in a browser
Cloud-based AR, VR and rendering platform gets 'world's first real-time web GPU path traced rendering'.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26
Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.
Friday, December 4th, 2020
Black Friday and winter 2020 deals for CG artists
Updated: Check out our list of great seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.
Monday, November 30th, 2020
Facebook becomes Corporate Patron of Blender
Social media giant is the most suprising $120,000+/year backer of the open-source 3D software so far.
Friday, November 20th, 2020
Blender Foundation joins Khronos Group
Developer can now influence development of key graphics standards used in Blender like OpenCL, OpenXR.
Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
Adobe releases Medium 2.4
First Adobe release of the virtual reality sculpting tool adds features intended to help users create more complex sculpts, better FBX export.
Friday, August 28th, 2020