Wonder Studio is available
Updated: hotly tipped AI tool for automatically replacing live actors with 3D characters can now export scenes in USD format.
Tuesday, July 11th, 2023
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Godot 4.0 ships
Discover five key features for CG artists in this major update to the open-source game engine, from Vulkan rendering to real-time GI.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
Omniverse Audio2Face gets new Audio2Emotion system
Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio now reflects emotions like joy and pain.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2022
Nevercenter ships Silo 2021.5 and Milo 2021.4
Check out the new features in the lightweight Sub-D modelling app and its new real-time renderer.
Monday, March 28th, 2022
Download 32 free mocap moves and 4 rigged characters
Get free rigged 3D characters and mocap moves from Reallusion's ActorCore library. FBX format, for commercial use.
Monday, January 24th, 2022
Omniverse Audio2Face now generates facial blendshapes
Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio can now create sets of facial shapes for export in USD format.
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
How to create stylized facial rigs for production in Maya
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create professional rigs for cartoon-style characters.
Thursday, May 13th, 2021
Masterpiece Studio launches Masterpiece Studio Pro
See the new features in the VR tool suite for sculpting and rigging characters, now out of beta.
Saturday, May 1st, 2021
Basefount releases Animcraft
Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Snappers unveils Snappers Wrinkles Designer
Crazy new Maya toolset will let you design wrinkles for 3D characters interactively and export to UE4.
Friday, October 16th, 2020
Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 3.4
See the new features in the Maya and Houdini crowd animation tool. Now free for low-budget projects.
Thursday, June 11th, 2020
Get animation tool TAFA free
Veteran morph-based facial animation tool available as a free download. The UI shows its age, but many users still swear by it.
Sunday, January 12th, 2020
Nukeygara unveils the 2019 Akeytsu product roadmap
Updated: October 2019 release adds support for additive layers to the unconventional animation tool.
Tuesday, October 29th, 2019