QuadSpinner releases Gaea in early access

Hotly tipped terrain generation tool mixes powerful procedural features with artist-friendly direct sculpting.

Wednesday, February 28th, 2018

Noitom launches Perception Neuron/FaceRig Studio bundle

Get a 32-sensor full-body inertial mocap system plus markerless facial mocap software for $1,750.

Monday, February 26th, 2018

IKinema releases Orion 1.0

Neat new system based around the HTC Vive makes it possible to create a complete sub-$1,500 full-body mocap setup for VR work.

Monday, February 26th, 2018

3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 3.7

Photogrammetry tool now supports multitextures, including the UDIM format, and multiband images. Price of the Pro edition down $500.

Monday, February 26th, 2018

Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 2.0

Newly updated tool coverts Blender scenes to interactive 3D web applications, complete with Cycles-compatible PBR materials.

Monday, February 26th, 2018

Facebook introduces glTF 2.0 support for 'richer 3D posts'

Posts now display 3D models interactively, with PBR materials, You can export directly from Modo.

Friday, February 23rd, 2018

Chaos Group releases Beta 2 of V-Ray Next for 3ds Max

Latest beta adds Nvidia's AI-based OptiX render denoising system, GPU volume rendering, updates to the hair shader.

Friday, February 23rd, 2018

Download Jaakko Saari's free rock heightmap generator

Neat tool for creating realistic rock surfaces comes as a Substance Designer scene or .sbsar file to use in other DCC apps.

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018

SiNi Software releases Scatter for 3ds Max as free beta

Promising new scattering plugin aims to provide an artist-friendly way to create very large scenes.

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018

Autodesk posts Softimage to Arnold source code on GitHub

Code for the SitoA plugin available via an Apache 2.0 licence. Latest update supports Arnold 5.0.2.4.

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018

Unity now comes with ProBuilder built in for free

Popular level design and modelling tool now part of Unity 2018.1 after buyout of original devs ProCore.

Tuesday, February 20th, 2018

Eye candy: Gnomon's beautiful 2018 student reel

See a round-up of the best student art created the Rookies awards' 2017 animation school of the year.

Sunday, February 18th, 2018

Download 300+ free 16,000px HDRIs from HDRI Haven

Updated: Many of the popular resource site's free HDRIs now come with 36MP backplates. For commercial use.

Sunday, February 18th, 2018