Adobe releases Substance 3D Connector

Open-source framework should help devs write plugins to send files between Substance 3D apps and tools like Blender and Maya.

Friday, April 5th, 2024

Download all of Graswald's 3D plants for free

Get over 100 species of grasses and flowers in FBX or Alembic format, or for use with the Gscatter Blender plugin. For commercial use.

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024

Get Reallusion's five great free animation-ready 3D characters

Download free, fully rigged human characters with Reallusion's animation-friendly CC3+ Base topology. For commercial use.

Wednesday, March 20th, 2024

Kiri Engine gets support for 3D Gaussian Splatting

Updated: 3D scanning app now lets users edit 3DGS scans and export them to DCC apps in OBJ format, on both iOS and Android.

Monday, March 11th, 2024

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 8.2

Check out the new features in the real-time lighting design software, including new shadow modes for the signature LightPaint system.

Tuesday, March 5th, 2024

Pilgway releases 3DCoat 2024 and 3DCoatTextura 2024

Check out the latest features in the digital sculpting, 3D painting and retopology app, and its cut-down edition for texturing work.

Wednesday, February 28th, 2024

Maxon releases Redshift 3.5.24

Production renderer gets native support for the hardware-accelerated ray tracing technology in Apple's new M3 processors.

Thursday, February 22nd, 2024

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Maya Update 2

Maya edition of the renderer gets support for MaterialX, initial support for LookdevX, and the option to scatter lights with Chaos Scatter.

Monday, February 19th, 2024

Open-source project ZLUDA lets CUDA apps run on AMD GPUs

Experimental tech lets NVIDIA-only apps, including RealityCapture and Arnold, run unmodified on AMD GPUs. Check out our FAQs on it.

Friday, February 16th, 2024

Epic Games releases RealityScan 1.4

Check out the new features in the free photogrammetry app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices, including better scan cropping tools.

Thursday, February 15th, 2024

Download NVIDIA's free da Vinci Workshop USD data set

Detailed interior scene provides a practical example of production-ready USD data structures for VFX or animation work.

Thursday, February 8th, 2024

See Disney's Moana island data set ray traced on a single AMD GPU

Multi-billion-primitive scene was rendered on a Radeon Pro W7900 via a fork of the pbrt renderer using AMD's HIP RT 2.2 ray tracing library.

Tuesday, February 6th, 2024

Boris FX releases SynthEyes 2024.1

Check out the new features in the 3D tracking software, including better workflow with After Effects, Pricing also simplified.

Friday, February 2nd, 2024