5 industry stories you may have missed in December 2021

Including end of life for Meshmixer and the 3ds Max Asset Library, and unified licences for Chaos Phoenix.

Friday, December 31st, 2021

Autodesk ships RV 2022

VFX image viewer and playback system gets support for new open standard OpenTimelineIO. Sales of perpetual licences discontinued.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2021

Epic Games buys Sketchfab

Unreal Engine dev acquires the leading 3D model portfolio service and library of AR-ready content. Fees cut on the Sketchfab store.

Thursday, July 22nd, 2021

Adobe apologises to asset creators for Substance promos

Uncredited use of Greyscalegorilla and HDRI Haven content in videos for the Substance 3D Collection was 'a mistake'.

Monday, June 28th, 2021

Epic Games buys ArtStation

Top online portfolio service will stay open to non-games artists and Unreal Engine users. Sales fees on ArtStation Marketplace reduced.

Sunday, May 2nd, 2021

Quixel ships Bridge 2020.4

Check out the latest workflow improvements in Quixel's free tool for exporting Megascans assets to DCC apps and game engines.

Wednesday, November 25th, 2020

Facebook becomes Corporate Patron of Blender

Social media giant is the most suprising $120,000+/year backer of the open-source 3D software so far.

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Autodesk ships RV 2021

Image viewer and shot playback tool for VFX and animation gets support for Python 3, new long-term Available Previous Versions.

Thursday, November 5th, 2020

Get Quixel's free Megascans plugin for Unreal Engine

Version 6.3 of the free plugin adds neat new vertex blend material, better LOD export for 3D plants.

Wednesday, October 14th, 2020

Quixel ships Bridge 2019.5

Use the entire Megascans library for free in Unreal Engine via the newly rewritten, C++ based UE4 plugin for Quixel's asset manager.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2019

Epic Games to make Unreal Studio's tools available free

Real-time visualisation platform's Datasmith toolkit will become part of UE4, not as a paid-for service.

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

VFX veteran Jody Madden becomes new Foundry CEO

Leading visual effects software firm's new boss previously worked at ILM, Lucasfilm, Digital Domain.

Wednesday, July 17th, 2019

Maxon buys Redshift

Cinema 4D developer acquires the well-regarded GPU production renderer. We assess what the buyout will mean for CG artists.

Tuesday, April 9th, 2019