Is AI replacing render farms?

[Sponsored] Online render farm Forrender argues that traditional workflows provide control and scalability that new AI tools cannot.

Tuesday, February 18th, 2025

Photoshop users can now create filters in Substance 3D Designer

Current beta build of the image-editing app lets users create and import custom image-stylization filters as Substance 3D .sbsar files.

Thursday, December 19th, 2024

Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 3.1 in beta

Scene layout and rendering app gets new generative AI features, including a new text-to-3D system for creating background models.

Saturday, December 14th, 2024

DeepMotion rolls out AI text-to-animation service SayMotion 2.4

Browser-based text-to-animation generative AI tool can now be used to create seamless animation cycles, and to retarget animation.

Saturday, October 12th, 2024

3Dpresso creates 3D models from videos of real objects

Online service recreates props and furniture for use in games and AR, and can be trialed for free. Now comes with a new iOS app.

Saturday, July 20th, 2024

tyFlow 1.111 integrates Stable Diffusion into 3ds Max

Multiphysics add-on's tyDiffusion module generates AI renders and animations matching 3ds Max scenes. Included in the free edition.

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024

DeepMotion launches AI text-to-animation service SayMotion 1.5

Browser-based tool lets you create animations for humanoid characters by typing text prompts. Free in open beta, including for commercial use

Saturday, June 29th, 2024

Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.4

Material-authoring app gets new generative AI features for creating textures or patterns from text prompts and refererence images.

Friday, May 24th, 2024

Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 3.0.2

Shot layout and rendering app gets Firefly AI-based Generative Background system and improved real-time rendering.

Friday, May 24th, 2024

Autodesk unveils new generative AI model Project Bernini

Experimental AI tech generates 3D models from text prompts, images, point clouds and voxels. See how it might be used in Autodesk software.

Thursday, May 9th, 2024

Blockade Labs launches Skybox AI Model 3

Big update to the browser-based generative AI tool makes it possible to create 8K 360° environments from text prompts or sketches

Friday, April 19th, 2024

Check out LATTE3D, NVIDIA's peppy new text-to-3D AI model

Current state-of-the-art AI model generates 3D assets from text prompts 'near instantly', even on a single previous-gen GPU.

Thursday, March 21st, 2024

Adobe adds Firefly generative AI features to Substance 3D tools

Substance 3D Sampler and Substance 3D Stager get new AI-powered Text to Texture and Generative Background features.

Monday, March 18th, 2024