Tools to watch in Fall 2024: MetaTailor

Eye-catching app makes it easy to dress 3D characters, auto-fitting 'any 3D wearable' to any bipedal avatar. See what's due in the 2.0 update.

Monday, August 26th, 2024

Download 25 free mocap moves from the Heat online library

Get free walks, runs, jumps and idle animations for games and motion graphics. Integrates with Blender, Daz Studio, Maya, Unity, and UE5.

Sunday, August 25th, 2024

Download 25 free 3D models of classical sculptures

Get VFX artist Cristian Spagnuolo's free library of retopologized scans of real-world statues. OBJ format, 8K textures, for commercial use.

Sunday, August 18th, 2024

Check out award-winning iOS virtual production tool Cyclops AR

iPad Simulcam app used on The Mandalorian and House of the Dragon is now available on the App Store to studios of all sizes.

Thursday, August 15th, 2024

SuperSplat is a free online editor for 3D Gaussian Splats

Neat open-source tool lets you crop and clean up 3DGS scan data in a standard web browser. Source code is available under an MIT license.

Monday, August 12th, 2024

Radical now supports real-time finger tracking

Browser-based AI mocap platform now extracts Mixamo-compatible hand motion from live video. Available with free subscriptions.

Friday, August 9th, 2024

Chaos ends perpetual licenses of crowd animation tool anima

Perpetual anima Pro licenses and sales of individual metropoly 3D stock characters discontinued in favor of anima All subscriptions.

Friday, August 2nd, 2024

Check out the new ML Deformer in Maya 2025.2

Latest update to the 3D software adds machine-learning-based tool to create fast approximations of complex character rigs.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2024

Group test: AMD Radeon Pro W7000 Series workstation GPUs

Discover which of AMD's professional GPUs is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests.

Thursday, July 25th, 2024

Free tool: Character Creator Auto Setup for 3ds Max

Reallusion's free add-on readies characters exported from Character Creator and iClone for rendering in 3ds Max with Arnold or V-Ray.

Wednesday, July 24th, 2024

Basefount releases Animcraft 5.0

Unusual tool for creating software-agnostic animation libraries gets new AI-based markerless full-body motion-capture system

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 8.2.2

Real-time lighting design software can now 'paint' highlights and shadows directly into interactive renders from Blender.

Wednesday, July 17th, 2024

Get artist-friendly 3D animation software Akeystu for free

Unconventional character rigging and animation tool is no longer being developed commercially, so you can now download it for free.

Sunday, July 14th, 2024