Autodesk ships Arnold 6.2

VFX production renderer gets new V-Ray-style light mixer, improved GPU rendering and USD support, and support for OpenColorIO 2.0.

Saturday, January 30th, 2021

This neat new Adobe AI tech turns photos into Substances

Video: see sneak peeks at Adobe's 2021 graphics R&D projects, like AI-based automated material capture.

Friday, January 29th, 2021

Adobe releases Substance Designer 2021.1

Material-authoring software gets support for Pantone colours - and now exports actual 3D geometry.

Friday, January 29th, 2021

Adobe releases Substance Painter 2021.1

3D texture painting tool gets new Geometry Mask system, plus option to copy effects between layers.

Friday, January 29th, 2021

World Machine Software ships World Machine 'Mt Rainier'

Big update to the terrain generator introduces new UI, history system, raises build speed by up to 60%.

Thursday, January 28th, 2021

Download VR modelling tool Gravity Sketch for free

Powerful virtual reality design tool now free to individual artists, including OBJ, FBX, IGES export.

Tuesday, January 26th, 2021

Tilt Brush goes open source

Google stops development of its virtual reality 3D painting and concept art app, but users can now compile it free from source code.

Tuesday, January 26th, 2021

Shutterstock to acquire TurboSquid for $75 million

Stock image provider to acquire world's largest online 3D marketplace for $75 million in cash.

Tuesday, January 26th, 2021

Master advanced Houdini hair grooming techniques

Create production-ready grooms in ILM artist Kristin Farrensteiner's Gnomon Workshop masterclass.

Sunday, January 24th, 2021

WTools3D ships LWCAD 2020 for LightWave and Cinema 4D

Check out the new features in the latest update to the all-purprose hard surface modelling toolkit.

Friday, January 22nd, 2021

Get a free 43,200 x 21,600px displacement map of the Earth

Create detailed renders of the planet's surface from space with this huge free 16-bit texture map.

Thursday, January 21st, 2021

Check out new Maya hair plugin Draw Groom Guides

Neat tool snaps hair guides to a target mesh, then lets you reshape the entire hairstyle interactively.

Thursday, January 21st, 2021

Sneak peek: Chaos Group's R&D work on V-Ray's VRayMtl

Video: see the new translucency in the standard V-Ray material, expected in V-Ray 5 Update 1.

Wednesday, January 20th, 2021