The making-of for Watermelon Girl charts a five-year labor of love

Check out self-taught animator SouthernShotty's inspirational animation breakdown for his 13-minute, one-person Blender short.

Monday, April 22nd, 2024

Reallusion releases BuildingGen for iClone

New plugin generates procedural 3D buildings from modular parts, directly inside the real-time animation software.

Thursday, April 18th, 2024

Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.9 and 1.9.5 beta

Check out the new features in the stable version of the virtual reality sculpting software, and the experimental public beta release.

Tuesday, April 16th, 2024

Canva acquires the Affinity tools

New owner pledges to preserve perpetual licenses of pro design tools - and key Adobe alternatives - Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2024

Check out LATTE3D, NVIDIA's peppy new text-to-3D AI model

Current state-of-the-art AI model generates 3D assets from text prompts 'near instantly', even on a single previous-gen GPU.

Thursday, March 21st, 2024

Sneak peek: Chaos's new AI technologies

Check out the tech in development at Chaos Next, the firm's new 'AI lab', ranging from PBR material generation to 3D set extension.

Wednesday, February 28th, 2024

Open-source project ZLUDA lets CUDA apps run on AMD GPUs

Experimental tech lets NVIDIA-only apps, including RealityCapture and Arnold, run unmodified on AMD GPUs. Check out our FAQs on it.

Friday, February 16th, 2024

Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.7

Check out the latest features in the virtual reality sculpting tool, including a new algorithm for upresing sculpting layers.

Wednesday, February 14th, 2024

JangaFX releases LiquiGen 0.1

Much-anticipated real-time liquid simulator gets first public preview. See which features are in the initial alpha, and which are coming later.

Tuesday, February 13th, 2024

Topaz Labs releases Gigapixel 7

AI-based app upscales images by up to 600% without losing detail, including 3D renders. Check out the changes in the latest release.

Monday, January 22nd, 2024

Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 13.1

Check out the new features in the material authoring software, including AxF export, and better workflow when using Frames.

Wednesday, December 13th, 2023

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for SketchUp Update 2

Check out the latest features in the renderer, including major updates to object scattering and support for Enmesh in V-Ray GPU.

Monday, December 11th, 2023

Tutorial: Animal Anatomy - Modeling a Fossa

Discover how to sculpt a creature from the inside out in Maya and ZBrush in The Gnomon Workshop's detailed anatomy tutorial.

Friday, November 10th, 2023