Santhosh Koneru: a visual effects director's progress

The Blur Studio artist discusses his award-winning short, The Legion, and new CG project The Vikings.

Tuesday, July 18th, 2017

Sneak peek: Unity 2017.1's powerful new cinematics tools

Watch 30 minutes of footage of the Timeline editor, Cinemachine 2.0 procedural camera system, and 16K video recorder.

Wednesday, June 28th, 2017

iPi Soft releases iPi Mocap Studio 3.6

Latest updates to markerless mocap tool permit real-time tracking via Kinect game sensors.

Monday, June 12th, 2017

Faceware Technologies releases Faceware Live 2.5

Real-time markerless facial mocap system gets new tools for fine-tuning animations, built-in preview characters.

Friday, May 26th, 2017

Get Epic Games' free volume modelling plugin for UE4

Download this nifty new tool to paint volumetric objects directly in VR, complete with fluid velocities.

Monday, May 8th, 2017

Paste models between 3D apps with this neat free tool

Paste geometry and UV maps between 3D packages with Oliver Hotz's OD_CopyPasteExternal.

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017

Silicon Studio ships Xenko 2.0

Rendering middleware firm's 'next-level C# game engine' now shipping commercially, but still free to individuals and indie studios.

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017

Reallusion releases Character Creator 2.0

Free(ish) tool for creating rigged 3D human characters gets support for PBR shading, image-based lighting.

Friday, March 24th, 2017

Side Effects Software releases Houdini 16

Updated: 'Largest ever' Houdini update adds autorigging, more simulation tools, terrain system. Now shipping.

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017

Microsoft buys Simplygon

Intelligent polygon reduction and LOD technology used on games like The Witcher 3 to form part of firm's '3D For Everyone' strategy.

Thursday, January 19th, 2017

IKinema ships LiveAction 3.0

Real-time mocap streaming and retargeting system for UE4 gets automated bone mapping and support for custom mocap systems.

Monday, January 16th, 2017

Graphine releases Granite SDK 4.0

Games texture-streaming system gets mipmap streaming, better workflow with version control tools.

Monday, December 19th, 2016

Unity Technologies releases Unity 5.6 and EditorVR in beta

Sizeable update to the game engine now available in beta, along with its new VR editing toolset.

Thursday, December 15th, 2016