Rig and showcase 3D characters for free with AccuRig 1.3

Reallusion's free auto-rigging tool now also generates animated previews of your 3D characters to share with clients or collaborators.

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023

Animate Anything uses AI to rig your 3D characters

Online service rigs 3D humanoids, animals and vehicles for use in real-time applications. Now comes with 3ds Max, Blender, Maya and UE5 add-ons.

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.19

Check out the new features in the production renderer, and its Blender, Cinema 4D and Houdini plugins.

Thursday, September 14th, 2023

Adobe unveils new Substance 3D Connector

Open-source plugin architecture will let you send assets from the Substance 3D applications direct to Blender, 3ds Max and Maya.

Tuesday, September 12th, 2023

ArmorPaint 0.9 ships

Popular open-source 3D texture painting software gets a new Smudge tool, group masks, and better OBJ import.

Friday, September 8th, 2023

Tutorial: Introduction to Ziva VFX - Volume 1 and 2

Volume 2 now available: master the Maya soft tissue simulation tool with The Gnomon Workshop's comprehensive two-part guide.

Friday, September 8th, 2023

MoGen generates animation cycles in your web browser

Promising AI-based online app generates a huge range of walk and run cycles for humanoid characters. Try it free in beta.

Thursday, September 7th, 2023

Maxon releases Cinebench 2024

Significant update reinstates GPU benchmarking to the popular free CG hardware benchmark.

Wednesday, September 6th, 2023

Check out free browser-based AI mocap tool Rokoko Vision

Successor to Rokoko Video lets users extract full-body animation from video captured on two cameras or smartphones. Still free for single-camera capture.

Monday, September 4th, 2023

Eye candy: Chaos's 2023 V-Ray VFX & Animation showreel

See the best new visual effects and motion graphics rendered with V-Ray - then check out technical breakdowns of the key projects.

Friday, September 1st, 2023

Radical launches Radical Live

New AI-based service extracts multi-actor motion data from video in real time, and streams it to Blender, Maya, Unity or UE5.

Friday, September 1st, 2023

Luxion buys Digizuite

KeyShot developer aims to provide users with a 'full-service design solution' though its buyout of the digital asset management provider.

Thursday, August 31st, 2023

Ynput launches free VFX and animation pipeline Ayon

Updated, now in beta: open-source framework connects VFX tools into a coherent USD-ready pipeline.

Friday, August 25th, 2023