Motiva ships Layama 1.5

Datasmith creator's unusual tool for turning 3ds Max, Blender and UE4 scenes into 'pseudo VR' gets new option to add interactive hotspots.

Wednesday, April 28th, 2021

Motiva unveils Unknit for Unreal Engine and 3ds Max

Watch a demo of this promising UV unwrapping tool from the devs behind UE4's Datasmith toolset.

Thursday, January 4th, 2018

Motiva releases Exposure Control plugin for V-Ray

Handy free plugin lets 3ds Max users simulate real-life film stocks and bleach bypass effects.

Tuesday, August 20th, 2013

Motiva ships Colimo 1.7

Free update to clever tool for relighting rendered images in real time includes native V-Ray support.

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013

Motiva releases Thea for 3ds Max

New plugin integrates Thea Render engine inside Max, including support for Particle Flow and instancing.

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Get Motiva's RealPerception for Nuke and Fusion

Intriguing new collection of Open Effects-based compositing plugins aims to mimic human perception.

Monday, December 24th, 2012

Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Winter 2023 deals for CG artists

Discover seasonal discounts assets on 3D assets, hardware software, from Adobe applications to Blender, Cinema 4D & Houdini plugins.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

Best Black Friday and winter 2022 deals for CG artists

Updated: save money with these seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.

Monday, November 28th, 2022

Blender will no longer ditch the VFX Reference platform

Open-source 3D app to revert to supporting the industry standard after criticism from VFX artists.

Thursday, September 29th, 2022

Get started using Blender for environment concept art

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to use the open-source 3D app to speed up concept work.

Tuesday, September 13th, 2022

Best Black Friday and winter 2021 discounts for CG artists

Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.

Thursday, December 23rd, 2021

See Facebook Reality Labs' work on Cycles in Blender

New Alembic procedural speeds up viewport rendering of animation caches by up to 12x in Blender 3.0.

Monday, December 13th, 2021

Unity acquires Pixyz Software

Buyout of Pixyz's CAD data preparation and import tools may also lead to new workflows for games artists in the Unity Editor.

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021