Adobe unveils Project Anorigami
See Substance Painter's upcoming UV unfolding toolset, plus seamless texture painting across UDIM tiles.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Free Resources
Otoy launches new free Prime usage tier for OctaneRender
New free editions of the renderer for Unreal Engine and Blender 2.80 available as early public previews.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Adobe releases free trial version of Substance Alchemist
Upcoming material-creation tool now free to all, not just people with existing Substance subscriptions.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Pixar ships RenderMan 22.6
Production renderer gets new Mari integration plugin, hdPrman plugin to render USD files, PxrCurvature for creating edge wear effects.
Monday, July 29th, 2019
Reallusion releases iClone Unreal Live Link
Plugin transfers iClone characters, lights and cameras to UE4 for real-time rendering, but it isn't cheap.
Friday, July 26th, 2019
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2019.2
Texture painting software gets support for RTX-accelerated texture baking on Nvidia GPUs.
Friday, July 26th, 2019
Pilgway releases 3DCoat 4.9
Voxel sculpting, painting and retopo tool gets 'soft Boolean' system, updated UV unwrapping, resolution-independent painting.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2019
Golaem ships Golaem 7.0
Maya crowd animation software gets standalone crowd layout tool, plus new live link plugin for round-tripping shots to Unreal Engine.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019
Quixel releases Mixer 2019.2
Free-in-beta material-authoring tool gets new Scatter modifier, updated Pattern modifer, layer blending modes and undo/redo system.
Monday, July 22nd, 2019
Trimble ships SketchUp 2019.2
Architectural modelling software gets new line weight control for exported images, plus option to set up multiple measurement units.
Monday, July 22nd, 2019
Download Jaakko Saari's free fabric generator
Free Substance generates custom cloth materials inside Substance Designer or Substance Painter.
Sunday, July 21st, 2019
Adobe releases Substance in Maya 2.0
'Complete rewrite' of the free Maya Substance plugin adds support for 8K textures, numerical output, Python scripting.
Friday, July 19th, 2019
See Gnomon's free workshop on stylised character design
Watch a 150-minute workflow session with Netflix Animation's Leticia Gillett free online next week.
Thursday, July 18th, 2019