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Epic Games ships Twinmotion 2026.1
Twinmotion 2026.1 goes harder on camera realism and faster lookdev, then quietly fixes the boring stuff you actually feel daily.
VINZI Atlux λ arrives on Fab
Atlux λ is now on Fab, bringing a virtual photo studio and one click renders to Unreal Engine, plus Mac support.
Maxon ships Redshift for Archviz
Redshift Archviz moves BIM scenes from waiting to tweaking, with real-time previews, assets, and a one-click hop to Cinema 4D for the fancy shots.
280 free automotive Substrate materials for UE 5.7
Epic’s new Automotive Substrate Materials pack on Fab bundles over 280 vehicle-focused Substrate materials plus templates, setup assets, and calibrated maps, targeting consistent results across Lumen and the Path Tracer in Unreal Engine 5.7.3 and later.
Ocean, clouds, and splats: D5 Render 3.0 sets sail
D5 Render 3.0 introduces new environment tools, expanded AI generation, and a lightweight D5 Lite for SketchUp users.
Epic Games updates RealityScan: 2.1 out
pic’s RealityScan 2.1 brings LiDAR & SLAM import, server automation tools and improved UV and rendering support.
The Cube Moved: Go for the Chaos (Ad) Vantage
Architecture Illustrators and Visualizers test Chaos Vantage for a narrative short and accidentally build a moving house. Unbox proves real-time previz can tell stories, not just sell floor plans.
City Life for Crowds: iCrowds Lands in Blender
iCrowds, the new Blender add-on from iCity’s creator, brings smart Sims-style crowds, seven simulation systems, and 100k agents to 3D production.
Open HDRI: 25 Free 29K HDRIs (More to come)
A new online library offers 25 free HDRIs at up to 29K resolution, all under a CC0 license. Open HDRI provides ultra-high-quality lighting environments without sign-ups, tracking or licensing headaches.
Atlux λ 2 brings 3D scanning inside Unreal
Atlux λ 2 makes Unreal Engine a virtual 3D scanner, exporting Gaussian-ready data. Real photogrammetry, synthetic edition.
Nanite marches in: Twinmotion 2025.2 update
Nanite now works in Twinmotion. 2025.2 also brings a new post stack, animation upgrades, VCAM tweaks, and cloud storage.
D5 Render 2.11: Now With AI, Sci-Fi Plants, and Path Tracing by Default
D5 Render 2.11 lands with AI-assisted planting, PBR texture creation, default path tracing, camera and lighting upgrades, and expanded collaboration for teams.
Artists Must Adapt: 3DModels.org Launches “One Car Challenge”
3DModels.org invites artists to transform an identical base car model into a unique render. Deadline is September 30.
Lumion View: Real-Time Rendering Now Inside SketchUp
Lumion introduces Lumion View, a real-time visualization plugin for SketchUp, enabling photorealistic 4K renders directly within the modeling environment. Now in early access.
SketchUp 2025: Better Visuals, Smoother Workflows
SketchUp 2025 enhances realism with photorealistic materials, environment lighting, ambient occlusion, and improved interoperability with Revit and USD export.
Twinmotion 2025.1: Real-Time Rendering with Advanced Atmospheric and Lighting Features
Twinmotion 2025.1 introduces volumetric clouds, projector lights, and enhanced orthographic view rendering, setting new standards in real-time visualization.
iClone 8.52: A Major Leap for Animation Editing
iClone 8.52 delivers a highly anticipated update for professional animation editing, packed with groundbreaking features driven by user feedback. Despite its numerical step from 8.51, this release introduces transformative tools to elevate animation workflows.
Walk the Space Station—Virtually
Explore the International Space Station in a 3D Tour Built with Unreal Engine 5.
Framestore Design Studio Reel Showcases Commercial and Title Work
Framestore’s Design Studio reel presents work spanning advertising, title sequences, data visualisation and animation for international brands.
Antimatter Releases Online Flow Map Generator
Antimatter’s browser-based tool lets artists draw, visualise and save flow maps, with support for loading custom source images.
Appleseed 2.0 Expands SSS, NPR and Adaptive Sampling
Appleseed 2.0 adds random-walk SSS, NPR shading, false-colour analysis, tile-based adaptive sampling and Substance Painter support.
Twinmotion 2020.2 Released
Twinmotion 2020.2 improves water and car-paint materials, adds parametric doors and expands its library of production assets.
Unreal Marketplace Free Assets for July
July 2020's Unreal Marketplace selection covered environments, ArchViz interiors, PSD-to-UMG conversion, shooter code and characters.
Autodesk University 2020 Call Archived
Autodesk University’s 2020 call sought sessions on VFX, visualisation, XR, AI, cloud collaboration and 3D printing. Submissions are closed.
Visualisation: Twinmotion currently available free of charge
Following the acquisition of the 3D visualisation software Twinmotion by Epic Games, the program is available free of charge until November 2019.
Alias Days 2018
Do you work with 3D software and have an interest in the latest trends in virtual reality, 3D software and design? Then ...
fröbus Is Hiring!
For its Cologne location, fröbus is looking for a 3D artist (m/f) to strengthen the team!
X-Particles 4 for Cinema 4D available
X-Particles 4 is now available: The particle and VFX system for Cinema 4D with many new features, including OpenVDB support, new Cloth simulations and much more!
Showreel 2018 by DW Studio
DW Studio has released its new showreel – the Welsh studio was even nominated for an animago AWARD in the Visualisation category this year with its submission “Antlion Audio / ModMic5”.
These are the animago AWARD winners 2017!
The animago trophies were awarded yesterday in Munich's Gasteig. These are the lucky winners.
Looking Back at animago 2016: “Best Still” Category – Architecture
Last year, we once again received great CG stills for the animago AWARD. Here is an overview of some participants on the theme of "architectural visualizations" (including interiors).
animago AWARD Deadline Extended!
The day after tomorrow would actually have been the last chance to take part in the animago AWARD 2017. But we are giving you a little more time—with the current temperatures, everything is moving a little more slowly. The new submission deadline is June 19—participation is free as always!
animago Still Gallery: Cars & More
Every year, the best CG stills are honoured at the animago AWARD. Beyond that, of course, we receive many more entries from all over the world that also deserve to be presented. Here are the best means of transport in CG visualisation.
animago Nominee: “A Guide to Happy”
How to become happy is nowadays a business market of its own, and a very lucrative one. Saving money also makes you happy, so simply watch Panoply's video and then know everything about the subject.
Introducing: The animago AWARD Nominees 2016!
This year, the animago jury met at the NEC's new venue in Munich to select the nominees for this year's competition. And here they are.
Airy Shoes
The Nike Air Max 1 Ultra Flyknit sports shoe model is said to be ultralight—Aixsponza visualised this wearing comfort in a new spot for Nike
Sneak Peek: 07 : 16
For the forthcoming DP 07 : 16, we are currently preparing the focus "Product Visualisations", because these projects are what put the CG artist's daily bread on the table. DP will be with our subscribers on 21 October and appear on newsstands on 24 October.
animago AWARD 20th Anniversary Voting: Best Visualization/Commercial
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the animago, we have decided to honour the best submission from the past two decades. The DP team has already completed the painstaking task of narrowing down the pool to 20 projects, and now it’s up to our readers to decide which one will receive the trophy! To give you more of an overview, we divided up the films into four different categories. Vote here by the end of July for your favourite clip in the category “Visualization/Commercial”.
animago AWARD 2016 – Here We Go!
DP readers have known exclusively for some time; now it is official worldwide: submissions are open for the animago AWARD 2016!
3D Visualizer Wanted in Cologne!
Fröbus is looking for a full-blooded visualiser for a full-time position in Cologne with immediate effect - so if you are proficient in DeltaGen, HDR Light Studio and Autodesk Maya: Why not send an application to the cathedral city?
Digital Inhabitants for Your Building Design
The building has been fully visualised – but what do people look like inside it? We present a new service that scans, processes and offers 360° models – so that reflections and cast shadows work too.
Aixsponza studio portrait
Last year, Aixsponza won an animago AWARD for the best visualisation for the "Red Bull Spielberg Track Introduction". Here is a portrait of the studio from Munich.
Second Part from the animago “Soil” Winner
Studio Uhsless and its founder Uli Henrik Streckenbach won an animago trophy in the “Best Visualisation” category in 2013 with “Let’s talk about Soil”. Here is his latest work on the soil problem.
Making-of U2/U5
Vienna's underground network is to be expanded. But before the project is realised comes the visualisation.
Autodesk Has Bought Lagoa
The Lagoa platform can be used to design and publish cloud-based 3D CAD models. The company now belongs to Autodesk.
SketchUp 2015
The software for rapid construction and modelling has simplified many things for users with the 2015 release.
Senior 3D Artist Wanted
Munich-based Studio Messlinger GmbH creates visualizations with high photographic standards – and is looking for reinforcement.
Free Masterclass Videos
CGschool is making more than seven hours of tutorials freely available on its website.
Christmas Winners
Christmas really paid off for these artists: they won the CGRecord Christmas Challenge. You can view the results here.
Christmas Challenge
Not yet in the Advent mood? The Christmas Challenge from the CGRecord Facebook Group can change that—with a task packed with a Christmas theme.
Visualising barley juice
Looking back: In DP 04 : 2013, we were thirsty for beer, because pilsner brand Warsteiner was celebrating its 260th birthday with an advertising campaign. The post-production studio nhb and the agency Kolle Rebbe created bottles in 3D for the Warsteiner brewery. Cheers!
Above the Clouds
The Lumion 3 visualization software is scheduled for release in November and will include improvements to the UI as well as the cloud system.
VRED Competition 2012
As part of the VRED Competition 2012, PI-VR is calling on bold visionaries to transform a construction data set into a convincing, photorealistic image. The winner will receive a VRED Photo 6.0 license worth more than 15,000 euros!
A Turbo for Distributed Applications
The new Fabric Engine 1.0 release provides fertile ground for concurrent web applications. Applications based on JavaScript are said to benefit so greatly from multithreading that their performance is in no way inferior to native applications.
Luxion Brings Plenty of Momentum to KeyShot 3.1
KeyShot, which is known for simple rendering and animation of 3D objects, gains a whole range of new functions with the new version 3.1, leaving hardly anything to be desired.
Expected Shortly: VR4MAX Release 7
Release 7 of the VR4MAX software for interactive 3D visualization and simulation now includes a new Atmosphere System and a LUA Script Engine.
Autodesk Buys Visualization Technology from Numenus
Autodesk announced yesterday that it had acquired parts of the Koblenz company Numenus and wants to position itself better in high-end visualization through this acquisition. In particular, Autodesk is said to have purchased ray-tracing technology. This would give Autodesk software customers major advantages in creating photorealistic visualizations.
RTT Excite 2011: Experience 3D Visualisation
RTT Excite 2011 presents realtime 3D visualisation technologies, product-design workflows and presentation tools.
Success in 3D – RTT Excite Attracted 600 Visitors to Praterinsel
3D visualisation experts from 20 countries meet at Europe’s largest industry event
More Than Reality – 3D in Corporate Use
RTT Excite brings 3D visualisation experts together at the industry meeting in Munich.
Conference on the Visualisation of Information
For five years, the “see conference” has brought together the most creative minds and most exciting ideas on the subject of ‘information visualisation’. see conference #5 takes place on April 17, 2010, for the first time at a new and larger location, Schlachthof Wiesbaden.
Entering the new financial year with momentum
CGI specialist Mackevision returns to a growth trajectory in 2010
Nerve Cells Up Close: A Journey Through Homo Sapiens
The guest lecture and workshop ‘3D Animation in Medicine and Pharmacy’ makes processes inside the human body a virtual experience.
Virtual Journey through the Human Body
ImageVis3D, developed by Saarbrücken computer scientist Jens Krüger with a University of Utah team, lets doctors display enormous medical imaging datasets and consult colleagues from home computers.
3D Forum xplore3d in Augsburg with Luxology’s Andy Brown
The organisers of xplore3d Augsburg promise in-depth insights into working with Luxology’s modo 401.
Intelligent City Maps and Training Systems for Doctors Seek Investors
Thirty-four research results and market-ready visualization and simulation solutions will be presented at the Heidelberg Innovation Forum.
Realtime Technology and Craft Animations Announce Strategic Alliance
Craft Animations and RTT combined technologies for real-time 3D animation in design and visualisation.
3D Simulation for Architects: Saarland University Researchers Introduce New Visualization Technology
A new method integrates complex building models into architectural and landscape planning and will be presented in an interactive 3D cinema at CeBIT 2009.
Autodesk Cuts the Price of Showcase
High-end visualization with an excellent price-performance ratio.
Vehicle Body Congress from VDI Wissensforum
With its main systems of body-in-white, exterior and interior equipment, the vehicle body is the interface between vehicle and buyer. The development of body systems is covered from the first design concept through requirements management and supplier integration to the representation of all production processes.
The focus is on digital technologies and the consistent continuation of system integration. Under the motto “System Integration in Vehicle Body Engineering”, the congress aims to help make tomorrow's vehicle bodies attractive, individually tailored to customers, ecological and economical to produce. With this congress, VDI Wissensforum offers a communication platform for representatives of the automotive industry, OEMs, the IT industry and engineering service providers.
One of the congress's main topics is complexity management in vehicle body development with regard to the variety of models and variants. Global aspects of body-system development are also addressed, taking account of different market requirements and the resulting development and manufacturing strategies.
Contemporary requirements management and attribution integration in vehicle body construction are further key topics. The programme is rounded off with new findings on design, validation and release processes.
Autodesk Holds Online Visualization Seminars
Autodesk will hold free 40-minute online seminars at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on 27 and 29 January 2009, covering visualization with Autodesk Inventor Studio and Autodesk Showcase.
RTT Acquires Software from Bytes + Lights
Realtime Technology (RTT) AG is expanding its CAD-data-processing portfolio by acquiring rights to use and exploit the software products of visualization company Bytes + Lights GmbH.
Picture Gallery: Photos from the animago AWARD Event 2008
The photos from the animago AWARD event 2008 are online. The most important DCC competition in the German-speaking region took place again this year at the Konzerthaus in Karlsruhe. We have the hottest pictures of the event with the winners onlne.
dc days: CGI in Catalog Production, Using Opel as an Example
The talk examines the development of CGI use for high-quality print production, workflow creation and adaptation, quality and quantity.
dc days: Character Modelling in C4D
Christian Drumm demonstrates how to build a simple character using the box-modelling method.
Preview of the animago Trailer
A preview of the new animago AWARD trailer has recently gone online.
animago AWARD 2008: Interview with MACKEVISION’s Armin Pohl
For the first time, MACKEVISION supported the animago AWARD as a sponsor rather than a participant. DP editor-in-chief Matthias J. Lange spoke with MACKEVISION CEO Armin Pohl.
dc days: Introductory Talk “Python Scripting in Maya”
Haggi Flöser-Krey explains the fundamentals and uses examples to show why Python is cooler than MEL.
Architectural Visualisation and Animation in Property Marketing
High-quality 3D visualisation and animation are becoming increasingly important in modern property marketing and are often its most important media. What are the client’s objectives, and how can they be communicated effectively? The session examines the planning, conception and management of extensive film and visualisation projects using completed work as examples.
Third Dimension
weltenbauer. is launching a new conference: Third Dimension aims to offer interested parties an insight into the daily production practice of film/video, game, architecture and technology visualisation studios.
The best in the industry will describe real production situations and practical tips are guaranteed. Prominent speakers: DECK13, PIXOMONDO, LUMO GRAPHICS, 3deluxe, Pictorion das werk and others.
We will also be showing news from this year's SIGGRAPH. Maya 2009, MotionBuilder 2009, Mudbox 2009, new tools such as the Craft Director Tools, the latest PNY Quadro graphics cards or current developments in the field of V-Ray.
dc days: Michl Dacher Offers Two Introductory Seminars
The seminars cover “Integrating 3D Architectural Visualisations with Photoshop” and “Photorealistic Visualisation in 3ds Max and V-Ray.”
dc days: Character Modeling in C4D
Christian Drumm shows how to build a simple character using the box-modelling approach.
dc days: Using CGI in Catalogue Production, Taking Opel as an Example
The talk covers the development of CGI use for high-quality print productions, workflow setup and adaptations, quality and quantity.
dc days Architecture Special: “Interactive Environments with Open-Source Software”
In “Interactive Environments,” architectural-software specialist Wolfgang Höhl demonstrates the correct use of free software in architectural visualisation.
dc days: Digital Presentation Techniques in Construction
Rüdiger Mach, owner of Mach:Idee, presents “Digital Presentation Techniques in Construction—Multiple Uses of 3D Visualisations for Acquisition and Documentation.”
dc days Talk: “3D Architectural Visualisation”
Higher-quality 3D visualisations in less time through efficient production plans and optimisation.
MACKEVISION Sponsors animago AWARD 2008
MACKEVISION Medien Design GmbH, one of the market leaders in 3D visualisation, animation, visual effects and postproduction, is supporting this year's animago AWARD as a sponsor.
eDward Finalists 2008
The ten finalists for the 2008 eDward Young Filmmaker’s Award have been announced
dc days: Workshop Programme Now Online
The second digital creation days at the Karlsruhe Congress Centre on 12–13 November 2008 show everything that is currently possible in digital visualisation.
dc days: Talk on “Customer-Oriented Project Management in Visualisation Projects”
Speaker Thomas Gronert from Missing Link Software Solutions Examines the Pitfalls of Project Management.
dc days Talk: “From CAD Data to Product Photography — Workflow in XSI”
Manuel Deutschle has been secured as a speaker for the dc days.
Beijing 2008: Autodesk Technology Enhances the Olympic Experience for Millions
Autodesk software was used to visualize the Bird’s Nest stadium and create Olympic mascots and television content.
dc days: Digital Presentation Techniques in Construction
Rüdiger Mach, owner of Mach:Idee, presents “Digital Presentation Techniques in Construction — Multiple Benefits of 3D Visualisation for Acquisition and Documentation”.
dc days: Introductory Talk “Python scripting in Maya”
Haggi Flöser-Krey explains the basics and uses examples to show why Python is cooler than Mel.
dc days Architecture Special: “Interactive Environments with Open-Source Software”
In “Interactive Environments”, architectural-software specialist Wolfgang Höhl demonstrates the correct use of free software in architectural visualisation.
Realtime Technology AG (RTT AG) on Expansion Course
RTT AG's revenue rose by 39 percent in the first half of 2008.
dc days: Michl Dacher Offers Two Introductory Seminars
The seminars cover “Integrating 3D Architectural Visualizations with Photoshop” and “Photorealistic Visualization in 3ds Max and V-Ray.”
Autodesk Completes Acquisition of Moldflow
For a total of US$297 million, Autodesk is acquiring the US company specializing in plastic injection-molding simulation, further expanding its digital prototyping strategy.