Planetside Software unveils Terragen Sky
Streamlined app for generating photorealistic CG skies, including 360° HDRIs, is out in early access.
Monday, December 19th, 2022
Free Resources
Download 127 Blender-ready HDRIs from HDRMAPS
Get a library of HDRIs optimised for Blender's Cycles renderer, packed in a .blend file. Commercial use.
Sunday, December 18th, 2022
Foundry ships Katana 6.0
Lighting and look dev software gets Material Soloing and performance profiling features to help troubleshoot complex VFX scenes.
Friday, December 16th, 2022
Sketchfab's models of the month: December 2022
See the month's best 3D models, from a free downloadable scan of a human skull to Gravity Falls fan art.
Friday, December 16th, 2022
ZBrush 2022.0.7 ships
Check out the new features in the final free update to ZBrush for perpetual licence holders, including improved USD export to Omniverse.
Wednesday, December 14th, 2022
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2022.3
AI-aided physics-based animation software ships after years in beta. Check out its key features here.
Wednesday, December 14th, 2022
Tutorial: Creating a Realistic Humanoid 3D Character
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals VFX industry workflows for creating characters in ZBrush, Maya and Mari.
Wednesday, December 14th, 2022
Autodesk open-sources Bifrost USD
Toolset for authoring USD scenes with the graph editor from Maya's Bifrost plugin now free under an Apache 2.0 licence.
Monday, December 12th, 2022
Boris FX releases Silhouette 2022.5
Roto and paint tool gets support for industry-standard ID matte generation system Cryptomatte.
Saturday, December 10th, 2022
Discover 5 key features for CG artists in Unity 2022.2
See the key changes to the game engine, like the new water system and dynamic volumetric clouds.
Friday, December 9th, 2022
Reallusion ships AccuRig 1.1
Free tool automatically generates body and finger rigs for humanoid 3D characters. Check out its new time-saving symmetry options.
Friday, December 9th, 2022
5 key features in Blender 3.4
Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software: from path guiding in Cycles to a hidden bonus for motion designers.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Foundry releases Nuke 14.0
Major update to the compositing software adds complete new USD-based 3D system, plus free library of Nuke machine learning models.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022