Unity releases Ziva VFX 2.2

Maya muscle and soft tissue simulation plugin gets new CUDA-based GPU solver, plus option to visualise stretching in the viewport.

Thursday, August 10th, 2023

Firefly is coming to Omniverse

Check out the Summer 2023 updates to Nvidia's online design platform, plus plans to integrate Adobe's generative AI toolset.

Tuesday, August 8th, 2023

Nvidia releases 2023.1 updates to Omniverse apps

Check out the new features in USD Composer 2023.1, USD Presenter 2023.1 and Audio2Face 2023.1.

Monday, August 7th, 2023

Tutorial: Creating a Monolithic City in Unreal Engine 5

Create a large-scale city for VFX or cinematics work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Sunday, August 6th, 2023

AWS releases Deadline 10.3

Free renderfarm manager now supports Unreal Engine 5, including the Movie Render Queue for visual effects, animation and visualisation.

Saturday, August 5th, 2023

QuiltiX: a new open-source MaterialX material editor

Free node-based tool lets users author MaterialX materials for use in renderers like Arnold and Karma.

Thursday, August 3rd, 2023

ASWF adopts OpenImageIO

Ubiquitous tech for reading and writing images becomes the latest open-source project to be hosted by the visual effects industry body.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2023

Unity ships Ziva Real-Time 2.0

New AI-based toolset generates real-time 3D characters that move with the accuracy of VFX rigs. Works with Maya, Unity, Unreal.

Friday, July 28th, 2023

Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.17

Release 'lays the foundation' for non-photorealistic rendering in the GPU/CPU renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Maya and Houdini.

Thursday, July 20th, 2023

Get Poliigon's 100+ free 3D models, textures and HDRIs

Download 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Maya and SketchUp models, plus PBR texture sets and 18K HDRIs.

Wednesday, July 19th, 2023

Chaos releases Phoenix 5.2

Check out the new features in the 3ds Max and Maya fluid simulator, including new options for directing liquids. Sims now 'up to 20%' faster.

Wednesday, July 12th, 2023

Chaos acquires AXYZ design

V-Ray and Corona developer buys the creator of architectural crowd animation tool anima and the metropoly range of 3D characters.

Tuesday, July 11th, 2023

Move.ai introduces monthly pricing

Promising new AI-based mocap service now available via monthly as well as annual subscriptions.

Tuesday, July 11th, 2023