Tools to watch in Fall 2024: Reblium Studio

Check out Reblika's promising all-in-one standalone app for creating ultra-detailed 3D characters for games and animation.

Friday, August 30th, 2024

Tools to watch in Fall 2024: Style3D Atelier and Simulator

Check out this promising new 3D clothing design tool for VFX and game development, and its Unreal Engine cloth simulation plugin.

Wednesday, August 28th, 2024

Download 25 free mocap moves from the Heat online library

Get free walks, runs, jumps and idle animations for games and motion graphics. Integrates with Blender, Daz Studio, Maya, Unity, and UE5.

Sunday, August 25th, 2024

Download 25 free 3D models of classical sculptures

Get VFX artist Cristian Spagnuolo's free library of retopologized scans of real-world statues. OBJ format, 8K textures, for commercial use.

Sunday, August 18th, 2024

Radical now supports real-time finger tracking

Browser-based AI mocap platform now extracts Mixamo-compatible hand motion from live video. Available with free subscriptions.

Friday, August 9th, 2024

Call of Duty: Warzone's Caldera map is now a free USD data set

Get an open-source version of the geometry for a real AAA game map as a resource for game art, pipeline testing and tools development.

Thursday, August 8th, 2024

Autodesk acquires Golaem

Maya crowd simulation software is no longer on sale, but its core IP will be integrated into 'Autodesk's current product offerings'.

Tuesday, August 6th, 2024

Maxon to raise subscription prices in September 2024

Cost of Cinema 4D, ZBrush and Red Giant subscriptions to rise next month, but pricing for Redshift largely unaffected.

Monday, August 5th, 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

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2025.2

3D modeling and animation software gets support for SVG files and a new Flow Retopology plugin for cloud-based workflow.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2024

Boris FX releases Mocha Pro 2024.5

Sizeable update to the tracking app extends the new 3D tracking toolset, and adds Alembic export and direct export to After Effects.

Monday, July 29th, 2024

The making of the VFX for Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

Discover how Ingenuity Studios created a six-mile CG river and complex smoke and fire simulations for Kevin Costner's epic Western.

Friday, July 26th, 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