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

Unity Technologies acquires SpeedTree developer IDV

Buyout to 'deepen integration' of IDV's tree-authoring technology with Unity, starting in Unity 2021.2.

Friday, July 23rd, 2021

Epic Games buys Sketchfab

Unreal Engine dev acquires the leading 3D model portfolio service and library of AR-ready content. Fees cut on the Sketchfab store.

Thursday, July 22nd, 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

AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.2 for Blender and Maya

Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets new toon shading mode and deformation motion blur.

Monday, July 12th, 2021

Marmoset ships Toolbag 4.03

Big free update to the real-time rendering and look dev tool adds neat texturing and lighting features, RTX-accelerated render denoising.

Thursday, July 8th, 2021

Free tools: Material Maker now also does 3D painting

Promising open-source node-based material authoring tool gets new 3D texture painting toolset.

Wednesday, July 7th, 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

Master environment design for virtual production in UE4

Discover Unreal Engine workflows for The Mandalorian-style virtual production with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.

Tuesday, June 29th, 2021

Unity acquires Pixyz Software

Buyout of Pixyz's CAD data preparation and import tools may also lead to new workflows for games artists in the Unity Editor.

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021

Anastasiy ships MagicTints 2.1

One-click colour-matching app for concept art work and image-to-LUT tool now available as standalone software for Windows and macOS.

Wednesday, June 16th, 2021

Use Faceware Studio for free for six months

New PLE licences of the real-time facial mocap software can be used with MetaHumans in Unreal Engine.

Thursday, June 10th, 2021

Khronos launches certification for online 3D model viewers

New visual standards program is already being adopted by model sites like CGTrader and Sketchfab.

Thursday, June 10th, 2021