SideFX ships Houdini 18.5

Big update to the procedural 3D software adds KineFX character rigging toolset; updates to Solaris, Karma and the simulation tools.

Wednesday, October 21st, 2020

Snappers unveils Snappers Wrinkles Designer

Crazy new Maya toolset will let you design wrinkles for 3D characters interactively and export to UE4.

Friday, October 16th, 2020

Download 70 free low-poly 3D plant models

Get 70 free real-time 3D models of temperate grasses and flowers, created by artist Erhan Yilmaz.

Friday, October 9th, 2020

Nvidia announces Omniverse open beta

USD-based 'open collaboration' platform for CG work will become free to individual users this fall.

Monday, October 5th, 2020

Nukeygara releases Akeytsu 2020.2

Major update to the character animation app adds support for retargeting and camera animation.

Thursday, October 1st, 2020

2020 CGarchitect rendering survey shows trends in arch viz

V-Ray and Corona top list of most popular architectural renderers, but use of Twinmotion, Enscape and UE4 also rising.

Thursday, September 24th, 2020

Download over 500 free real-time 3D plants and buildings

Get games asset studio SilverTM's City Park Environment Collection free from the UE4 Marketplace.

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020

Rokoko launches Smartgloves

Neat $995 inertial mocap gloves can be used to stream hand and finger tracking data live to apps like Maya, Blender, Unity and UE4.

Thursday, September 17th, 2020

Nvidia unveils Omniverse Machinima

Upcoming app will let users create 3D animations based on games assets using new AI-driven tools.

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020

Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs – 2020

Read Jason Lewis's in-depth review of Nvidia's Quadro RTX and AMD's Radeon Pro workstation GPUs.

Friday, August 28th, 2020

Unity Technologies files for IPO

Unity has 1.5 million users and is used to create over half the games released, but the firm still made a loss of $163.2 million last year.

Tuesday, August 25th, 2020

AMD releases new beta of Radeon ProRender 2.0

Open-source physically based GPU render engine gets support for Light Path Expressions, MaterialX.

Monday, August 24th, 2020

Download KitBash3D's free Neo City buildings kit

Get futuristic 3D buildings in the native formats of 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Maya, Houdini, UE4 and Unity. For commercial use.

Monday, August 17th, 2020