Discover how to create stone walls in Substance Designer
Master industry-standard material authoring workflows with veteran games artist Josh Lynch's new Gnomon tutorial.
Saturday, July 6th, 2019
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Esri ships CityEngine 2019.0
Procedural city generation software gets support for PBR materials, glTF export, improved integration with Houdini and Unreal Studio.
Thursday, May 16th, 2019
Quixel releases Mixer 2019
Big update adds parametric authoring and image-to-PBR-material conversion to the scan blending tool, now in free beta.
Friday, March 15th, 2019
QuadSpinner ships Gaea
Hotly tipped next-gen terrain design tool gets official release. The Community edition is free, and licensed for commercial work.
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019
IDV ships SpeedTree Engine for Clarisse iFX
New version of the tree-creation tech lets users generate variant trees and animation inside Clarisse.
Thursday, January 17th, 2019
Ephere ships Ornatrix V6 for 3ds Max
Popular hair and fur plugin gets new physics, clumping and braiding toolsets, native support for Arnold.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
Check out procedural CG creature generator Kozinarium
Updated: meet crazy new creatures created with the Houdini tech demo weekly on the @Kozinarium Twitter feed.
Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
Gravity Sketch releases Gravity Sketch VR 1.5
Promising virtual reality design tool gets support for groups, surface patches and orthographic views.
Friday, September 7th, 2018
WTools3D ships LWCAD 2018
Powerful procedural modelling plugin for LightWave gets new toolsets for automatically generating windows and railings.
Monday, June 18th, 2018
Ephere releases Ornatrix for Maya v2
Big update to hair plugin adds new physics system, clumping controls, option to generate woven fabrics.
Monday, June 11th, 2018
Allegorithmic updates Substance Source library
Updated: Online library hosts 1,000+ materials in Substance format, designed for PBR workflows. Download some for free.
Thursday, June 7th, 2018
Esri ships CityEngine 2018.0
Procedural 3D city-generation tool gets greater integration with Unreal Studio for VR work, new option to distribute geometry along curves.
Friday, May 11th, 2018
Check out this neat Substance Designer hair generator
Vinícius Cortez's $6 add-on creates good-looking texture maps for characters with strand-based hair.
Tuesday, March 27th, 2018