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

Ragdoll Dynamics adds real-time physics to your Maya rigs

Neat new plugin adds realistic dynamics to machines, muscles, cloth and hair in the Maya viewport.

Tuesday, August 3rd, 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

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

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

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

AMD unveils Viewport Boost

Interesting new driver feature raises viewport frame rate in apps like 3ds Max and Twinmotion when running on AMD's latest pro GPUs.

Saturday, June 19th, 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

AMD unveils Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600 GPUs

New RDNA 2 GPUs are AMD's first workstation cards built for modern hardware-accelerated ray tracing.

Wednesday, June 9th, 2021