Download free Maya object scattering tool Ecotope

Check out Polygonflow's scattering tool, available with the trial of its GraphN visual programming app.

Sunday, September 19th, 2021

Alexey Vanzhula releases Soft Boolean for Houdini

Real-time Boolean modelling toolkit can also be used inside apps that support Houdini Engine, like Maya.

Friday, September 3rd, 2021

Quixel ships Mixer 2021.1.2

Latest update extends the free material creation software's handling of UDIMs and texture sets. See all of the new features here.

Thursday, September 2nd, 2021

Get Adobe's Substance and Mixamo plugins for Blender

Updated: new free plugin for editing Substance materials inside Blender now also works on Linux.

Wednesday, September 1st, 2021

Nvidia unveils new Substance 3D plugin for Omniverse

Just one of a new round of updates to Nvidia's collaboration platform to be announced at Siggraph 2021.

Tuesday, August 10th, 2021

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