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Check out the new features in ftrack's cloud-based production tracking and shot review system for visual effects and animation work.

Thursday, March 3rd, 2022

Free assets include this modular kit of 3D parts for medieval castles. FBX format, 8K PBR textures, commercial use.

Sunday, February 13th, 2022

V-Ray and Corona still dominate market, but UE4, Twinmotion and D5 Render all gaining ground.

Thursday, February 3rd, 2022

See news of Autodesk's latest acquisition, Blender's latest backer, and a free glossary of virtual production terms.

Tuesday, February 1st, 2022

Neat add-on generates attractively stylised trees that can be exported to DCC apps or game engines.

Sunday, January 30th, 2022

See how the $229 hardware-accelerated ray tracing-capable GPU performs with CG apps like Photoshop and Rhino.

Monday, January 24th, 2022

Get free rigged 3D characters and mocap moves from Reallusion's ActorCore library. FBX format, for commercial use.

Monday, January 24th, 2022

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

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

Saturday, January 15th, 2022

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

Thursday, January 13th, 2022

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

Sunday, January 9th, 2022

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

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