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Autodesk ships Flame 2020
Now shipping: compositing software gets AI-driven depth and normal map generators, support for Cryptomatte and OFX plugins.
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Unity 2019.1 ships
Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.
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Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.22
Real-time visualisation platform gets hardware-accelerated ray tracing, option to import simple 3ds Max animations.
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Eye candy: the 2019 Godot engine games reels
See the best games created in the popular open-source engine, from colourful tower defence titles to ultra-cute shooters.
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GIMP team ships GIMP 2.10.10
Open-source image editor gets new options for colorising line art, 32-bit precision for parameteric brushes, on-canvas layer selection.
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Master the art of Sculpting the Planes of the Head
Discover key anatomy principles and sculpting techniques in The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
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Search for CG jobs and studios with VFX world maps
Find VFX and animation studios and CG schools near you with these handy searchable maps.
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Higx releases Point Render for Nuke
Create, shade and render complex particle effects using this versatile BlinkScript-based point renderer.
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Discover how to make an indie short with over 200 VFX shots
Director Chris Staehler reveals how he created award-winning sci-fi film The Beacon at Gnomon next week. Watch free online.
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Allegorithmic releases Substance Alchemist 0.6
Latest beta of the next-gen material creation tool adds option to create collections of material variations.
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Allegorithmic ships Substance Painter 2019.1
Big update to the texture painting app adds neat dynamic strokes system, viewport displacement.
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Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Modo
Modo edition of the renderer gets new scene intelligence features, faster GPU rendering, new rolling shutter effect.
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e-on software ships Vue R2 and PlantFactory R2
Vue gets updates to EcoSystems, the cloud tools and the Path Tracer; PlantFactory gets interactive path traced previews.
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Discover how to create a CG superhero animation for VFX
Supergirl animation supervisor Elaina Scott's Gnomon tutorial takes you from previs to final shot.
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Isotropix adds GPU ray tracing in Clarisse iFX 4.0 SP2
It's limited to the 3D viewport, not final output, but it can result in a render speed boost of 'up to 100x'.
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Next Limit ships RealFlow | Cinema 4D 3.0
Cinema 4D fluid simulation plugin gets Macro daemon to mimic the look of high-speed photography.
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Next Limit launches RoomBox
New architectural visualisation platform converts 2D AutoCAD and Revit floorplans into complete 3D environments for final rendering.
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RandomControl launches Maverick Studio
Check out this streamlined new product visualisation tool from the creators of the old Arion renderer.
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Quixel to support the MDL material format in Megascans
Popular library of real-world scan data to adopt the cross-application material format supported in V-Ray and Unreal Studio.
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Sketchfab’s models of the month: April 2019
See the best real-time models on the site this month: from 3D dentures to amazing Avatar fan art.
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