5 industry stories you may have missed in January 2022
See news of Autodesk's latest acquisition, Blender's latest backer, and a free glossary of virtual production terms.
Tuesday, February 1st, 2022
Free Resources
GraphN lets you create custom tools for Maya and Unreal
Updated: New visual programming system for Maya and Unreal Engine now free for non-commercial use.
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
Trimble ships SketchUp 2022
Architectural modelling app gets improved curve drawing, new search and tagging features, native support for Apple's M1 processors.
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
Unity acquires Ziva Dynamics
Buyout of leading character rigging and simulation tools developer strengthens Unity's portfolio of digital human and creature tech.
Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
Discover how to create an FX production shot in Houdini
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create a horror movie effect from start to finish.
Saturday, January 22nd, 2022
Chaos discontinues V-Ray for Modo and Katana
Sales of the Modo and Katana editions of the renderer have ended, but support continues until December 2022.
Friday, January 21st, 2022
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
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