Nvidia announces January 2023 updates to Omniverse
Changes include new AI workflows for Blender users and a neat update to AI painting app Canvas.
Wednesday, January 4th, 2023
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5 tips to get more from your 3D characters
[Sponsored] Discover how to reuse one character in many projects with Reallusion's Character Creator 4.1.
Thursday, December 29th, 2022
DeepMotion Animate 3D adds 'Avaturn' avatar-generation
Browser-based AI mocap tool gets new system for generating custom 3D avatars from simple selfies.
Friday, December 23rd, 2022
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Houdini
Houdini edition of the renderer gets improved support for rendering clouds, oceans and hair.
Thursday, December 15th, 2022
Tutorial: Creating a Realistic Humanoid 3D Character
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals VFX industry workflows for creating characters in ZBrush, Maya and Mari.
Wednesday, December 14th, 2022
Autodesk open-sources Bifrost USD
Toolset for authoring USD scenes with the graph editor from Maya's Bifrost plugin now free under an Apache 2.0 licence.
Monday, December 12th, 2022
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.12
Sizeable update to the renderer adds support for Intel's OIDN for render denoising, plus multi-scattering in volumes like clouds.
Monday, December 12th, 2022
Reallusion ships AccuRig 1.1
Free tool automatically generates body and finger rigs for humanoid 3D characters. Check out its new time-saving symmetry options.
Friday, December 9th, 2022
Rokoko launches free AI mocap tool Rokoko Video
Free browser-based tool generates animation in FBX and BVH format for use in apps like Blender, Maya and Unreal Engine.
Monday, December 5th, 2022
CG industry news round-up: November 2022
Amazon gets into crowd simulation, Autodesk buys into volumetric video, and Sketchfab goes 18+ only.
Monday, December 5th, 2022
Foundry acquires Peregrine Labs' Bokeh plugin for Nuke
$99/year lens simulation plugin will be integrated into the compositing app for free - including Nuke Indie.
Friday, December 2nd, 2022
Epic Games releases free 3D scanning app RealityScan
Neat free photogrammetry app lets you generate high-quality 3D models with your smartphone.
Thursday, December 1st, 2022
Blender Foundation unveils the Animation 2025 Project
Ambitious three-year plan to revamp Blender's rigging and animation tools begins next year.
Thursday, December 1st, 2022