Check out Blender's experimental anime rendering builds

New non-photorealistic rendering branch of the open-source 3D app is being developed with input from anime firm DillonGoo Studios.

Tuesday, December 17th, 2024

Unigine 2.19.1 can now import and export USD files

Game engine now imports meshes, materials, lights and animation in USD format, including in the free Community edition.

Monday, December 16th, 2024

Maxon releases ZBrush 2025.1

Digital sculpting software gets new Quick Polygroup Brush, updated Anchors Brush, tighter integration with the Redshift renderer.

Thursday, December 5th, 2024

Unreal Engine 5.5: discover 10 key features for CG artists

Read our pick of the features in this huge update to the game engine, from MegaLights to character rigging, animation and rendering.

Thursday, November 14th, 2024

New Substance 3D Viewer lets you work with 3D assets in Photoshop

Adobe's new standalone app lets users drag and drop 3D models into Photoshop and have them appear as editable Smart Objects.

Monday, October 14th, 2024

Download 120+ free 3D scans of temples for use in Unreal Engine

Scans Factory's Temples of Cambodia asset pack comprises 120+ 3D scans of ruined temples for use in virtual production and VFX.

Sunday, October 6th, 2024

Unity previews its roadmap for Unity 6.1 and beyond

Updated: See the new tools due in the game engine in 2025, including updates to shading, rendering, animation and world building.

Thursday, September 26th, 2024

3D-Info is a lightweight open-source viewer for USD scenes

French movie trade organization CST's free tool offers an intuitive way to explore USD scenes. Now plays back animations in USD scenes, too.

Sunday, September 8th, 2024

Foundry releases Flix 7.1

Heavyweight story development tool with integrations to Photoshop and Maya can now also be used in a standard web browser.

Friday, September 6th, 2024

Theory Accelerated releases Axiom 3.3 for Houdini

Check out the new features in the GPU-accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver, including support for height fields as collision sources.

Wednesday, September 4th, 2024

Blender will support online asset libraries

Future releases of the open-source 3D software will also come pre-configured with a remote library of CC0 brushes, materials and meshes.

Thursday, August 8th, 2024

Chaos ends perpetual licenses of crowd animation tool anima

Perpetual anima Pro licenses and sales of individual metropoly 3D stock characters discontinued in favor of anima All subscriptions.

Friday, August 2nd, 2024

Group test: AMD Radeon Pro W7000 Series workstation GPUs

Discover which of AMD's professional GPUs is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests.

Thursday, July 25th, 2024