Sketchfab's models of the month: June 2016
See the month's best real-time CG models, including the Star Citizen Next Great Starship contest winner.
Friday, July 1st, 2016
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Red Giant rolls out Universe 2.0
Library of add-ons for compositing apps gets good-looking new HUD-creation toolset, but free subscriptions axed.
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
PSOFT releases CharacterBox for Modo
Cool new character animation plugin rigs anything from bipeds to creepy crawlies in a few clicks.
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Laubwerk makes procedural plant kits available for Maya
1.0.20 update makes the render ready tree models compatible with Maya as well as 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Houdini.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
Fabric Software releases Kraken 1.2
Open-source rigging system creates character rigs that work across Maya and Softimage. Now with faster biped rig setup.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
Esri ships CityEngine 2016.0
Powerful procedural city modelling software gets new Alembic exporter for use with visual effects pipelines.
Monday, June 27th, 2016
See BodyPaint 3D's new GPU-based painting engine
The upcoming OpenGL engine in Cinema 4D's painting toolset should improve interactivity when texturing large assets.
Thursday, June 23rd, 2016
Next Limit releases RealFlow | Cinema 4D
Now shipping: New $795 edition of the fluid simulator is 'fully integrated' inside C4D, though it lacks some advanced tools.
Thursday, June 23rd, 2016
Eye candy: Unity's amazing photorealistic Adam demo
Updated: See the complete, near-six-minute short. Runs in real time on a single GeForce GTX 980.
Monday, June 20th, 2016
Unity revamps subscriptions in reply to user complaints
Updated: Unity Plus subscribers get option to turn off the splash screen; users of the free Personal edition can customise it.
Friday, June 17th, 2016
Download 500 free HDRIs from HDRI Skies
Updated: Neat set of free HDR sky images covers a range of times of day and weather. Also now includes a free 15K HDR.
Friday, June 17th, 2016
Raylight Games releases XrayUnwrap 2.0 for Maya
Inexpensive UV unwrapping tool gets new selection, seam-handling and resymmetry options, better UDIM support.
Thursday, June 16th, 2016
Gnomon ships Developing Storytelling Skills from Life
Illustrator April Connors' three-hour guide to figure drawing sets out essential skills for character and costume designers.
Thursday, June 16th, 2016