IDV ships SpeedTree 9.0

Tree-generation software for VFX and games gets freehand editing mode, new tools for integrating 3D scans, and new pricing model.

Monday, January 17th, 2022

Basefount ships Animcraft 2

Unusual app for building reusable animation libraries gets nonlinear motion editing and new facial rigging and animation toolsets.

Saturday, January 15th, 2022

Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2022.1

Real-time visualisation tool gets new GPU path tracer, HDRI skydomes, support for point clouds.

Thursday, January 13th, 2022

Chaos and Enscape to merge

Private equity-led deal to unite developers of three of arch viz's most popular renderers. All of both firms' products remain available.

Wednesday, January 12th, 2022

Get four free explosion assets from Compositing Academy

Get free rendered explosions for use in VFX compositing. 2K EXR image sequences; commercial use.

Sunday, January 9th, 2022

Omniverse Audio2Face now generates facial blendshapes

Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio can now create sets of facial shapes for export in USD format.

Wednesday, January 5th, 2022

Nvidia launches Omniverse: still free to individual artists

Real-time collaboration platform for 3D design and content creation now out of beta. Check out all of its latest features here.

Wednesday, January 5th, 2022

5 industry stories you may have missed in December 2021

Including end of life for Meshmixer and the 3ds Max Asset Library, and unified licences for Chaos Phoenix.

Friday, December 31st, 2021

Download ActionVFX's free stock effects clips and textures

Get 6 free FX clips of emergency flares, 19 cartoon fire and smoke effects, and 50 dirt textures. For commercial use.

Tuesday, December 28th, 2021

Best Black Friday and winter 2021 discounts for CG artists

Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.

Thursday, December 23rd, 2021

KeenTools ships FaceBuilder 2021.4 for Nuke and Blender

Check out the new features in the popular plugin for generating 3D heads from source photographs.

Saturday, December 11th, 2021

e-on software ships Vue and PlantFactory 2021.2

Digital nature tools get new Omniverse connector, support for Redshift and RenderMan materials.

Friday, December 10th, 2021

Otoy unveils Octane 2022

Check out next year's roadmap for the GPU renderer, and the new features in OctaneRender 2022.1 XB0, the first public preview build.

Tuesday, November 30th, 2021