5 steps to creating convincing photorealistic 3D portraits
Discover how to model, texture and light ultra-realistic 3D characters with tips from leading CG artists.
Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
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IDV ships SpeedTree 9.0
Tree-generation software for VFX and games gets freehand editing mode, new tools for integrating 3D scans, and new pricing model.
Monday, January 17th, 2022
Basefount ships Animcraft 2
Unusual app for building reusable animation libraries gets nonlinear motion editing and new facial rigging and animation toolsets.
Saturday, January 15th, 2022
Master superhero concept design for film and TV
Create a movie-quality 3D superhero with Eternals concept artist Luca Nemolato's Gnomon Workshop tutorial.
Saturday, January 15th, 2022
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2022.1
Real-time visualisation tool gets new GPU path tracer, HDRI skydomes, support for point clouds.
Thursday, January 13th, 2022
Maxon acquires Pixologic
Pixologic founder Ofer Alon and entire ZBrush team have joined Maxon. See what the deal means for ZBrush and its sibling products.
Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
Sketchfab's models of the month: January 2022
See the month's best real-time 3D models, from free downloadable cars to entire animated scenes.
Tuesday, January 11th, 2022
Reallusion backs the Blender Development Fund
New tools to improve workflow between Blender and iClone and Character Creator due this year.
Thursday, January 6th, 2022
Omniverse Audio2Face now generates facial blendshapes
Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio can now create sets of facial shapes for export in USD format.
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
LuxCoreRender 2.6 and BlendLuxCore 2.6 ship
Open-source renderer and its Blender plugin get support for OpenColorIO 2. Parsing of mesh lights '3x faster'.
Tuesday, January 4th, 2022
5 tools updates you may have missed in December 2021
Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.
Monday, January 3rd, 2022
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
Open 3D Engine gets first stable release, 2022 roadmap
Check out the new features in the 'AAA-capable' open-source game engine built on AWS's Lumberyard.
Thursday, December 30th, 2021