Nekki releases Cascadeur 2022.3

AI-aided physics-based animation software ships after years in beta. Check out its key features here.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2022

Foundry releases Mari 6.0

3D texture painting software gets new USD Look export system, plus neat Roller Brush for repeating details like scales and stitches.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2022

Tutorial: Creating a Realistic Humanoid 3D Character

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals VFX industry workflows for creating characters in ZBrush, Maya and Mari.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2022

Insydium's NeXus coming to Blender, Maya and 3ds Max

GPU-based Cinema 4D particle, liquid and granular fluid simulation tool due in new host apps in 2023.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2022

Southpaw Technology launches Tactic Atlas

New cloud-based media archiving system helps VFX and CG firms build online libraries of key assets.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2022

Autodesk open-sources Bifrost USD

Toolset for authoring USD scenes with the graph editor from Maya's Bifrost plugin now free under an Apache 2.0 licence.

Monday, December 12th, 2022

Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.12

Sizeable update to the renderer adds support for Intel's OIDN for render denoising, plus multi-scattering in volumes like clouds.

Monday, December 12th, 2022

Boris FX releases Silhouette 2022.5

Roto and paint tool gets support for industry-standard ID matte generation system Cryptomatte.

Saturday, December 10th, 2022

Autodesk ships Flame 2023.3

Compositing and effects software gets support for AWS CDI in the cloud. Old Sparks plugins to be deprecated in the next update.

Saturday, December 10th, 2022

Reallusion ships AccuRig 1.1

Free tool automatically generates body and finger rigs for humanoid 3D characters. Check out its new time-saving symmetry options.

Friday, December 9th, 2022

JangaFX unveils GeoGen

EmberGen developer's upcoming real-time terrain generator is pitched as the Substance 3D Designer of planetary creation.

Thursday, December 8th, 2022

5 key features in Blender 3.4

Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software: from path guiding in Cycles to a hidden bonus for motion designers.

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022

Foundry releases Nuke 14.0

Major update to the compositing software adds complete new USD-based 3D system, plus free library of Nuke machine learning models.

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022