Foundry ships Mari 5.0v4

3D texture painting app gets new teleport node system to remove visual clutter from the node graph. Perpetual licences now discontinued.

Friday, August 12th, 2022

Ziva Dynamics launches Ziva Face Trainer

Cloud-based AI facial rigging service generates 'real-time faces' for use in Maya, Unity and UE4.

Thursday, August 11th, 2022

Autodesk open-sources RV

Updated: only "core components" of the award-winning image viewer and shot playback tool will be open-sourced, not the full product.

Thursday, August 11th, 2022

Watch Lion, Unity's fur-raising new tech demo

Beautiful new demo shows millions of strands of CG hair, rendered in real time in 4K on a PlayStation 5.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022

Intel unveils Arc Pro A-Series A50, A40 and A30m GPUs

Check out the key specs of the three new discrete GPUs, aimed at professional CG and video work.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022

Omniverse Audio2Face gets new Audio2Emotion system

Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio now reflects emotions like joy and pain.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022

GauGAN360 turns doodles into 360-degree environments

Nvidia's new AI art demo turns sketches into 360° environment maps for use inside 3D software.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022

Nvidia unveils NeuralVDB

'Next evolution' of OpenVDB brings the power of AI to volumetric data, reducing the memory footprint of fluid simulations by up to 100x.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022

Nvidia announces plan to 'evolve USD beyond VFX'

Check out its roadmap for growing USD beyond the movie industry to become the 'foundation of the open metaverse'.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022

Tutorial: Designing & Creating a Creature Bust

Create a production-ready 3D creature with this new Gnomon Workshop tutorial from Wētā FX's Pascal Raimbault.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022

Physically Based lists PBR values for real-world materials

Need to recreate ketchup in your CG software? This free online database has the info you need.

Monday, August 8th, 2022

Godot 3.5 ships

Check out the new features for CG artists in the open-source game engine, like the material overlay system and support for 3D text.

Monday, August 8th, 2022

Free app Kiri Engine uses AI to edit noise from 3D scans

Promising new AI-enhanced photogrammetry app is available for both Android and iOS phones.

Sunday, August 7th, 2022