Harry Emelianov has released a pay-what-you-want tool for creating volumetric clouds in Unreal Engine 4. Find out more on Harry's Gumroad page.

A new version of Realsoft 3D has been released marking a return to significant development of the venerable 3D app after a hiatus of over 10 years. (more...)

Ton Roosendaal, the original creator of Blender and chairman of the Blender Foundation, has published a post listing his top 15 highlights of 2018. Read it on Blender.org.

We recently launched a new jobs board on CGPress, periodically we will summarise the latest additions and share them on social media and in the main news feed. Here's what's been posted so far: (more...)

We wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! The very best of wishes to all our readers and fellow artists from the CGPress team. 

Chaos Group has posted an interview with Ingenuity Studios' Grant Miller on how they used V-Ray for Houdini to render pile of 9,000 zombies for The Walking Dead. Read it on the Chaos Group blog.

iToo Software has released an in-depth interview with Christian Haas about Manou the Swift. The film is a feature-length animated film for families conceived and created entirely in-house using 3DS Max using LUXX's custom pipeline tools and rendered with V-Ray. You can find out more about this and more on iToo Software's website (Expect content aimed at promoting Forest Pack and RailClone). Also of note, a new trailer has been released for Manou the Swift on YouTube. 

Epic Games has released a new reel showcasing work done by its enterprise clients with Unreal Engine in the automotive, aviation, architecture, big data, consumer electronics, film, live performance industries and more.  Watch it on YouTube.