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 acquires LoUPE

Autodesk buys the Blender-friendly cloud-based production pipeline system, and hires the developers that created it at Tangent Labs.

Wednesday, November 17th, 2021

Check out open-source auto-retopology tool AutoRemesher

New app from Dust3D developer Jeremy Hu turns source meshes into uniform all-quad geometry.

Tuesday, August 4th, 2020

Download 37 free 3D models from 3D Model Haven

Get free props and environment models in FBX and Blender format with PBR textures. CC0 licence.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

Get promising free low-poly 3D modeling tool Dust3D

Neat ultra-lightweight tool creates low-poly games assets, complete with automated character rigs.

Wednesday, January 15th, 2020

Check out Chaos, UE4's new 'Hollywood physics' system

Video: see the new destruction toolset due in Unreal Engine 4.23. Cloth, character physics to follow.

Thursday, March 21st, 2019

The twisted tale of The Voice in the Hollow

Discover the novel real-time workflow that powers Gnomon's award-winning animated short.

Wednesday, May 24th, 2023

Godot 3.5 ships

Check out the new features for CG artists in the open-source game engine, like the material overlay system and support for 3D text.

Monday, August 8th, 2022

Nevercenter ships Silo 2021.5 and Milo 2021.4

Check out the new features in the lightweight Sub-D modelling app and its new real-time renderer.

Monday, March 28th, 2022

Download Maxon's free Cineware for Unreal plugin

New live link plugin makes it possible to edit Cinema 4D content interactively inside Unreal Engine.

Friday, December 3rd, 2021

Godot 3.4 ships

Open-source game engine gets better tonemapping, new UI theme editor, glTF export for editing scenes in DCC apps like Blender.

Thursday, November 11th, 2021

Maxon, Tangent Animation join Academy Software Foundation

Cinema 4D and LoUPE developers become members of industry body to promote open-source VFX tech.

Monday, August 2nd, 2021

Godot 3.3 ships

Unexpectedly major update to the game engine adds a new web editor, new CPU lightmapper, and native support for Apple's M1 chips.

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021