Polyqoniq releases botaniq 7.0 for Blender

Popular library of 3D plants updated to work with polygoniq's open-source engon asset browser. Download 38 of the assets for free.

Sunday, January 28th, 2024

InstaMAT Studio is now available

Promising new app combines 3D texture painting, node-based material authoring and AI features. Free if you earn under $100k/year.

Thursday, January 25th, 2024

Check out Sébastien Garnier's Sculpt & Fix toolbox for Blender

Movie character FX artist's $15 add-on helps users sculpt quick corrective fixes for common artifacts in character animations.

Wednesday, January 24th, 2024

Ynput releases Ayon 1.0

Open-source pipeline for VFX and animation work is now production-ready - and available in the cloud as well as to install locally for free.

Thursday, January 18th, 2024

Marvelous Designer creator wins Sci-Tech Academy Award

3D clothing design software creator Jaden Oh wins tech 'Oscar', along with the creators of open standards USD, OpenVDB and Alembic.

Monday, January 15th, 2024

Glassbox Technologies ships DragonFly 3.2

Check out the new features in the virtual camera system for Maya and Unreal Engine, including additive recording, and native Vicon support.

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024

Polygonflow releases Dash 1.4 in early access

Neat tool to simplify world building in Unreal Engine 5 gets new Physics Paint system, PBR texture packing. Perpetual licenses now available.

Wednesday, December 27th, 2023

Tutorial: Creating Foliage for Videogames

Discover how to create custom SpeedTree trees and plants for games with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.

Wednesday, December 27th, 2023

Radical now supports real-time facial motion-capture

Browser-based AI mocap platform now extracts facial and full-body animation from the same video. Available with free subscriptions.

Friday, December 22nd, 2023

Ephere releases Ornatrix 8 for 3ds Max

Check out the new features in the hair and fur plugin, including a point-and-click groom-creation system, and the option to 'box' operators.

Friday, December 15th, 2023

Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.22

Update boosts performance in real-time render engine Redshift RT, including support for async shader compilation and DLSS upscaling.

Tuesday, December 12th, 2023

Tutorial: Art Direction for Film: Creature Design & Development

Master professional creature design workflows in ZBrush, Maya and Unreal Engine 5 with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.

Sunday, December 10th, 2023

Download over 150 free 10K HDRIs from HDRMAPS

Download high-resolution HDRIs and HDR skies without having to register on the site. EXR format, for commercial use.

Sunday, December 10th, 2023