BlendShape Monitor for Maya helps fix your messy character rigs
Neat new add-on displays the effect of individual shapes as real-time heatmaps, helping troubleshoot complex facial and full-body rigs.
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
Neat new add-on displays the effect of individual shapes as real-time heatmaps, helping troubleshoot complex facial and full-body rigs.
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
Tool for auto-fitting 3D clothing to 3D characters gets new plugins for round-tripping assets to Unity and Unreal. Supports MetaHumans.
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
Take your character animation to the next level with Disney animator Alissar Kobeissi's masterclass for The Gnomon Workshop.
Saturday, January 31st, 2026
Long-awaited update will let you denoise animation properly with the CPU/GPU denoiser, used in apps like Blender and V-Ray.
Friday, January 30th, 2026
Read our pick of the key changes to rendering, animation and physics in the open-source game engine - plus five neat quality-of-life updates.
See how NVIDIA's top-of-the-range Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs performed in real-world tests in popular DCC applications.
Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source 3D software, from Geometry Nodes and Cycles to changes to color management.
Generate growth animations for forms from corals to crystals with motion designer Gio Gargiulo's neat Houdini toolset, now free in beta.
Friday, January 30th, 2026
Open-source rigging and animation framework gets a new blueprint system - and a Softimage-inspired alternative to Maya's Outliner.
Thursday, January 29th, 2026
Check out the promising new GPU-accelerated sparse liquid solver from Theory Accelerated, creator of the popular Axiom fluid solver.
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
See the new features in the open-source alternative to Substance 3D Designer, including DDS support and seven new SDF nodes.
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
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Animating Characters for Feature Films by animator Alissar Kobeissi, Walt Disney Animation Studios
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