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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

Ziva Dynamics launches ZRT Face Trainer in beta

Sign up now to test this promising next-gen AI-trained automated facial rigging system for games.

Monday, November 22nd, 2021

Discover your Complete Photogrammetry Workflow

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial provides an essential guide to 3D scanning workflow for production.

Monday, November 22nd, 2021

Autodesk acquires LoUPE

Autodesk buys the Blender-friendly cloud-based production pipeline system, and hires the developers that created it at Tangent Labs.

Wednesday, November 17th, 2021

See Nvidia's new Omniverse plugins, apps and pricing

See the latest features in the real-time collaboration platform, and prices for Omniverse Enterprise.

Tuesday, November 9th, 2021

Otoy releases OctaneRender 2021.1

GPU production renderer gets new USD importer, Boolean clipping material, volumetric light linking.

Friday, October 29th, 2021

SideFX releases Houdini 19

Check out the key tools in this big update to the procedural 3D app: from muscles, multiphysics and Pyro simulations to Karma XPU.

Wednesday, October 27th, 2021

ArmorPaint 0.8 ships

Huge update to the open-source 3D texture painting app adds real-time path tracing, edge wear materials, decals, and live links to Blender and Maya.

Friday, October 22nd, 2021

Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs - 2021

See how Nvidia and AMD's current pro GPUs perform in real-world tests, from modeling to rendering.

Thursday, October 14th, 2021

Get 7 free 360-degree skies and 23 free UE4 landscapes

Download games artist Velarion's pack of real-time environment assets free during October 2021.

Wednesday, October 6th, 2021