Discover how to create killer 3D creature concepts
Find out how to model and texture this Viper Dragon in The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.
Saturday, July 31st, 2021
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Autodesk ships Maya 2022.1
3D animation software gets new global search feature, tools for authoring interactive tutorials, and updates to the deformer system.
Thursday, July 29th, 2021
Nekki ships Cascadeur 2021.2
Unusual physics-based animation software gets a new Graph Editor, new tools for tweening character poses, and new spline IK system.
Thursday, July 29th, 2021
HieroPlayer is now free to Nuke and NukeX users
Free subscriptions to the VFX shot review tool available to Nuke users with active maintenance contracts.
Thursday, July 29th, 2021
Eye candy: Epic Games' new UE4 in-camera VFX demo
Check out this three-minute short with environments rendered in real time inside Unreal Engine 4.27.
Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
The FreeMoCap Project: markerless mocap for $100?
Promising open-source project aims to track bodies, fingers and faces on two consumer webcams.
Monday, July 26th, 2021
Master character look dev in Maya and Arnold
Discover how to light and shade a photorealistic human character with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.
Sunday, July 25th, 2021
Foundry ships Modo 15.1
Modelling and rendering app gets new Curve Booleans system, plus updates to scene testing, the mPath renderer, and USD support.
Friday, July 23rd, 2021
Unity Technologies acquires SpeedTree developer IDV
Buyout to 'deepen integration' of IDV's tree-authoring technology with Unity, starting in Unity 2021.2.
Friday, July 23rd, 2021
Epic Games buys Sketchfab
Unreal Engine dev acquires the leading 3D model portfolio service and library of AR-ready content. Fees cut on the Sketchfab store.
Thursday, July 22nd, 2021
Adobe backs Blender Development Fund
Software giant's Gold sponsorship provides €30,000/year to help develop the open-source 3D app.
Thursday, July 22nd, 2021
Adobe releases Fresco 2.7
Digital painting app gets Photoshop-style Adjustment layers, improved layer masking, plus image alignment guides and grids.
Wednesday, July 21st, 2021
See After Effects' new multi-frame rendering features
Render previews or final frames faster on multi-core CPUs with the latest beta of the compositing app.
Wednesday, July 21st, 2021