Autodesk acquires LoUPE
Autodesk buys the Blender-friendly cloud-based production pipeline system, and hires the developers that created it at Tangent Labs.
Wednesday, November 17th, 2021
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Blender 3.0's Cycles X now runs on AMD GPUs
Latest beta of Blender 3.0 supports GPU rendering on AMD cards via the open source HIP framework.
Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
Master storyboarding techniques for films and games
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial from Riot Games' Rembert Montald sets out pro storyboard workflows.
Monday, November 15th, 2021
Get five new free ZBrush brush sets from XMD Source
Download custom ZBrush IMM brushes for sculpting hair, clothing and machinery. Commercial use.
Sunday, November 14th, 2021
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Maya Update 2
Renderer gets new decal system, support for USD lights, access to the Chaos Cosmos asset library.
Friday, November 12th, 2021
Godot 3.4 ships
Open-source game engine gets better tonemapping, new UI theme editor, glTF export for editing scenes in DCC apps like Blender.
Thursday, November 11th, 2021
Esri ships CityEngine 2021.1
3D city generation software gets new terrain sculpting tools, IFC import and export, and better import of OpenStreetMap data.
Thursday, November 11th, 2021
Unity acquires Weta Digital for $1.6 billion
Firm aims to put Weta's legendary in-house VFX tools 'into the hands of millions of artists' worldwide.
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
Get Antoine Bagattini's free Ivy Generator for Blender
Architectural artist's neat free tool automatically generates 3D ivy across any mesh inside Blender.
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
Foundry ships Modo 15.2
3D modelling and rendering app gets new Primitive Slice tool and render-time Boolean system. Perpetual licences discontinued.
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
See Nvidia's new Omniverse plugins, apps and pricing
See the latest features in the real-time collaboration platform, and prices for Omniverse Enterprise.
Tuesday, November 9th, 2021
Get started with Houdini's Pyro FX toolset
New two-part Gnomon Workshop tutorial provides a detailed guide to Houdini smoke and fire simulations.
Saturday, November 6th, 2021
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for SketchUp Update 2
SketchUp renderer gets new scattering and decal systems, big update to real-time render mode V-Ray Vision.
Friday, November 5th, 2021