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Neat AI-trained tool for generating 3D materials from single source images due in Substance Alchemist and Adobe Capture.

Thursday, April 9th, 2020

Megascans to get new 'modular' assets and drone scans; Mixer to get new tools for authoring stylised, painterly materials.

Tuesday, April 7th, 2020

Update adds support for sharing GPU memory via NVLink in the new GPU render engine, plus optimised new Transparent Medium material.

Monday, April 6th, 2020

See the month's best real-time 3D models, from amazing anime fan art to a free downloadable 3D Batman.

Friday, April 3rd, 2020

New licence gives students and educators nine versions of V-Ray plus Phoenix FD for $149/year.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

Create, light and render large landscapes suitable for VFX work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.

Wednesday, April 1st, 2020

Production renderer and look dev suite gets OpenColorIO support, USD export, Open Image Denoise.

Friday, March 27th, 2020

Maya soft tissue simulation plugin gets support for file referencing. Now compatible with Maya 2020.

Thursday, March 26th, 2020

Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

New stable build of the sculpting and painting tool adds support for Megascans materials; updates the Cloth tool and Blender live link.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

MyPaint 2.0 ships

Major update to the open-source digital painting tool mimics real-world paint blending, and adds five new symmetry painting modes.

Monday, March 23rd, 2020

Master the anatomy of the human feet, legs, chest and arms with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorials.

Sunday, March 22nd, 2020

Maya gets new integration plugin for Rokoko's mocap library, better Bifrost performance, support for painting 16K textures.

Thursday, March 19th, 2020