Nukeygara releases Akeytsu 2020.3.6

Unusual character animation tool gets new silhouette render mode, better handling of mirrored rigs.

Wednesday, April 7th, 2021

Get Volume 2 of Epic's Virtual Production Field Guide for free

Free 158-page PDF provides an overview of new workflows and job opportunities in virtual production.

Tuesday, April 6th, 2021

Marmoset ships Toolbag 4.0

Real-time rendering toolkit gets new GPU-accelerated ray tracing system, new 3D painting toolset.

Monday, April 5th, 2021

AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.1 for Blender and Maya

Free GPU renderer get supports for Cryptomatte AOVs, and a new 16-bit Machine Learning denoiser.

Thursday, April 1st, 2021

Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2021.1

Significant update to the real-time visualisation tool adds new bridge to UE4, new Megascans assets.

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

Reallusion releases Character Creator 3.4

Real-time 3D character-creation tool gets new Smart Hair system of modular hairstyles and facial hair.

Thursday, March 25th, 2021

Autodesk ships Maya 2022

Sizeable update to the 3D software adds 'full USD integration', new VR modelling app, and new character rigging and animation features.

Wednesday, March 24th, 2021

Download free parallax maps from wParallax

Add fake 3D interiors to buildings with these 1K and 3K EXR textures for 3ds Max, C4D and Blender. Commercial use.

Monday, March 22nd, 2021

Check out neat iOS camera mocap app VirtuCamera

Handy $5 app turns your iPhone or iPad into a real-time virtual camera controller for Maya or Blender.

Monday, March 22nd, 2021

Epic buys RealityCapture creator Capturing Reality

Photogrammetry app used for the Megascans library to be 'integrated into the UE4 ecosystem'. Prices cut.

Wednesday, March 10th, 2021

Octane X is now available in the Mac App Store

Metal-native GPU renderer is now free for a year on any Mac capable of running macOS 11.2 Big Sur.

Tuesday, March 9th, 2021

mGear team ships mGear 3.7

Big update to the open-source Maya rigging framework adds new tools to auto-rig game characters, and for using mGear rigs in UE4.

Tuesday, March 9th, 2021

Download free UV packing tool UV-Packer for Blender

New Blender edition of 3d-io's popular 3ds Max plugin optimises UV packing of complex models.

Monday, March 1st, 2021