Autodesk launches Maya Creative

Use Maya's core tools for $3/day with this new cut-down edition for freelancers and smaller studios.

Thursday, September 15th, 2022

Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.4

Material authoring tool can now expose parameters to make the materials it creates editable in other DCC apps.

Tuesday, September 6th, 2022

Check out promising browser-based AI mocap tool Plask

Neat tool extracts full body animation from video in FBX and BVH format. Now supports multi-person capture.

Saturday, September 3rd, 2022

Chaos ships V-Ray 6 for Maya

Check out the new features in the Maya edition of the renderer, from Enmesh geometry replication to support for USD volume shaders.

Wednesday, August 31st, 2022

Ziva Dynamics launches Ziva Face Trainer

Cloud-based AI facial rigging service generates 'real-time faces' for use in Maya, Unity and UE4.

Thursday, August 11th, 2022

GauGAN360 turns doodles into 360-degree environments

Nvidia's new AI art demo turns sketches into 360° environment maps for use inside 3D software.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022

Nvidia unveils NeuralVDB

'Next evolution' of OpenVDB brings the power of AI to volumetric data, reducing the memory footprint of fluid simulations by up to 100x.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022

Physically Based lists PBR values for real-world materials

Need to recreate ketchup in your CG software? This free online database has the info you need.

Monday, August 8th, 2022

KeenTools ships FaceBuilder 2022.2 for Blender and Nuke

Turn photos of actors into matching MetaHumans with the new version of the head-generation plugin.

Friday, August 5th, 2022

Download Animal Logic's free ALab USD production scene

Updated: ace USD test scene now has 300+ production-quality assets, including two rigged characters.

Friday, August 5th, 2022

JangaFX releases GTV 2.0

Download the free, newly GPU-accelerated tool for browsing textures and sprite sheets, like those generated by EmberGen.

Friday, July 29th, 2022

Download the free Modern Industrial Pack of 3D models

Kitbash industrial interiors with RenderCrate's set of over 400 modular parts. FBX format, for commercial use.

Thursday, July 28th, 2022

Epic Games joins the Open 3D Foundation

Unreal Engine creator now a board member of the governing body for rival game engine Open 3D Engine.

Monday, July 25th, 2022