Master 3D scan integration techniques for visual effects

New Gnomon tutorial reveals how to clean 3D scan data to integrate with a photographic backplate.

Monday, September 14th, 2020

Maxon awarded $200,000 Epic MegaGrant

Money will fund development of a Cineware-style live link between Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine.

Thursday, September 10th, 2020

Maxon ships Cinema 4D R23

Major update to Cinema 4D adds new character animation tools, better UV editing, and integrates the $399 Magic Bullet Looks suite.

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020

Lightmap releases Blender plugin for HDR Light Studio

New 'Xenon' update makes the real-time lighting tool available to Blender users for the first time.

Tuesday, September 8th, 2020

Chaos Czech releases Corona Renderer 6 for 3ds Max

3ds Max renderer gets new sky model, better Phoenix FD support, adaptive environment sampling.

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs – 2020

Read Jason Lewis's in-depth review of Nvidia's Quadro RTX and AMD's Radeon Pro workstation GPUs.

Friday, August 28th, 2020

Hackers for hire targeted 3ds Max, Bitdefender warns

Use Autodesk's free Security Tools to fix the PhysXPluginMfx script exploit and keep your data safe.

Friday, August 28th, 2020

3d-io releases UV packing tool UV-Packer 3 for free

Download the new version of the powerful automated 3ds Max UV packing plugin completely free.

Thursday, August 27th, 2020

Use Blender's Cycles renderer inside Houdini with hdCycles

Now shipping: Tangent Animation's neat free plugin makes Blender a Hydra render delegate in Houdini.

Tuesday, August 25th, 2020

AMD releases new beta of Radeon ProRender 2.0

Open-source physically based GPU render engine gets support for Light Path Expressions, MaterialX.

Monday, August 24th, 2020

Create subtle performances for your animated characters

Master nuance in animation with ILM lead animator Ted Lister's new tutorials for Gnomon Workshop.

Tuesday, August 18th, 2020

Download KitBash3D's free Neo City buildings kit

Get futuristic 3D buildings in the native formats of 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Maya, Houdini, UE4 and Unity. For commercial use.

Monday, August 17th, 2020

Check out neat new procedural tree toolset GrowInfinite

Set of 37 HDAs generates detailed tree growth animations in Houdini or Houdini Engine-compatible apps and game engines.

Wednesday, August 12th, 2020