QuadSpinner ships Gaea 1.0.24

Next-gen terrain design tool now integrates with Houdini. Edit Gaea terrain in Houdini or software compatible with Houdini Engine.

Tuesday, August 13th, 2019

Download 22 free game-ready 3D scans of common foods

Get Tomáš Búran's free 3D scans of fruit, veg and bakery products, with five LODs and 4K PBR textures. For commercial use.

Sunday, August 11th, 2019

AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.0 for Blender

AMD ships new version of the free GPU renderer for Blender 2.80, plus update to the Maya plugin.

Saturday, August 3rd, 2019

Modo, KeyShot and Blender to support RTX-based rendering

All three applications to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia's RTX GPUs in future.

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

Check out 'cinematography simulator' Cine Tracer

Interesting UE4-based tool lets users plan shots using CG versions of real-world lights and cameras.

Thursday, July 18th, 2019

NewTek ships LightWave 2019.1

Free quality-of-life update adds new navigation modes in Layout and Modeler, improvements to FBX interchange and the UE4 bridge.

Tuesday, July 16th, 2019

Epic Games donates $1.2 million to Blender development

'No strings attached' three-year grant almost doubles Blender development funding at a stroke.

Monday, July 15th, 2019

Rokoko launches facial capture add-on for its mocap systems

New iPhone X app lets you capture facial animation alongside full-body data and stream it to UE4, Unity or MotionBuilder.

Friday, July 12th, 2019

Quixel ships Bridge 2019.2

VFX-focused update to the asset management tool for Megascans scan data adds USD support, plus new integration for Clarisse iFX.

Wednesday, July 10th, 2019

Download four new free Renderpeople 3D characters

Includes an animated male figure and two rigged female figures. Multiple common 3D formats; for commercial use.

Monday, July 8th, 2019

Yeti fur plugin goes back on sale in the United States

Popular Maya plugin on sale to US studios again - and with a 15% discount until 31 July to celebrate.

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019

Epic Games acquires Shave and a Haircut

Version 9.6 of the veteran Maya hair plugin to be released free to UE4 users, including source code.

Thursday, June 6th, 2019

Review: BOXX APEXX T3 workstation

Jason Lewis puts this powerful 3D workstation through a battery of real-world DCC benchmark tests.

Wednesday, May 15th, 2019