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decimation

Now shipping: alternatives to Unreal Studio help prepare CAD data for import into game engines.

Friday, August 17th, 2018

EA DICE artist Guilherme Rambelli's new Gnomon Workshop tutorial details current industry workflows.

Thursday, August 9th, 2018

Big update to image-based modelling tool improves speed and accuracy of mesh generation, adds new camera calibration manger.

Wednesday, July 18th, 2018

Video: see Houdini's upcoming retopology and facial autorigging tools, and a lot of neat new fluid, crowd and hair simulation features.

Tuesday, November 7th, 2017

Renderer gets new VR camera, support for animated mesh deformations and video maps, better material and HDRI editing.

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017

Intelligent polygon reduction and LOD technology used on games like The Witcher 3 to form part of firm's '3D For Everyone' strategy.

Thursday, January 19th, 2017

MeshLab 2016 ships

Newly updated open-source app provides complete set of tools for cleaning and editing 3D scan data, or readying meshes for 3D printing.

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017

Videos: Big new update revamps MeshFusion, adds new procedural modelling and auto retopology options. See them all in action here.

Thursday, October 13th, 2016

Updated, now shipping: Standalone tool coverts ultra-dense point cloud data into production-ready meshes.

Thursday, December 3rd, 2015

Free professional desktop software turns scan data or photos into 3D meshes and cleans them for export.

Wednesday, February 25th, 2015

$50/month gets you ten animations, plus access to the character creator, facial mocap and decimation tools.

Friday, August 22nd, 2014

Updated: Character-creation tool to get option to edit meshes directly, not just by combining body parts.

Wednesday, May 21st, 2014

Free cloud-based system based on Donya Labs' Simplygon technology automates creation of LOD assets for games.

Thursday, November 14th, 2013