Nvidia unveils RTX A2000

New $450 cellphone-sized 6GB GPU is Nvidia's smallest and cheapest Ampere workstation card. Check out its key technical specs.

Wednesday, August 11th, 2021

Nvidia unveils new Substance 3D plugin for Omniverse

Just one of a new round of updates to Nvidia's collaboration platform to be announced at Siggraph 2021.

Tuesday, August 10th, 2021

Master creature grooming techniques in Houdini

Learn to style digital hair and fur with The Gnomon Workshop's guide to current VFX workflows.

Monday, August 9th, 2021

Omniverse Audio2Face now supports Reallusion characters

Nvidia's free app now automatically lip syncs Character Creator head meshes to dialog in any language.

Saturday, August 7th, 2021

Get the free RenderMan for Substance Painter 24.1 plugin

Open source plugin now converts Substances to RenderMan's new Lama materials, for use in Blender, Houdini or Maya.

Wednesday, August 4th, 2021

Maxon, Tangent Animation join Academy Software Foundation

Cinema 4D and LoUPE developers become members of industry body to promote open-source VFX tech.

Monday, August 2nd, 2021

Discover how to create killer 3D creature concepts

Find out how to model and texture this Viper Dragon in The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Saturday, July 31st, 2021

Academy Software Foundation adopts MaterialX

Movie industry standards body to oversee future development of the open format for rich material data.

Friday, July 16th, 2021

OptiTrack ships Motive 3.0

In beta: optical mocap software's new 'Quantum Solver' can track 10 actors simultaneously. See all of its new features and new pricing.

Tuesday, July 13th, 2021

Pilgway ships 3DCoat 2021

Long-awaited major update to the sculpting and painting app ships. Check out the new features, and changes to pricing and plugins.

Tuesday, July 13th, 2021

Alexey Vanzhula releases Modeler 2021 for Houdini

Versatile modelling toolkit gets neat new tools for retopologising high-res ZBrush character sculpts.

Monday, July 12th, 2021

Take-Two Interactive Software acquires Dynamixyz

Dynamixyz's facial mocap tech now available exclusively to Take-Two's own studios like Rockstar Games.

Monday, July 5th, 2021

Download the free edition of RenderMan 24

Get the latest Non-Commercial edition of Pixar's renderer for personal use and plugin creation.

Wednesday, June 30th, 2021