Ziva VFX and OIDN creators win Sci-Tech Academy Awards

Soft tissue simulation and render denoising system win tech 'Oscars', due to be presented at a ceremony tonight. Check out the other winners.

Tuesday, April 29th, 2025

Sparseal adds SDF modeling to Uniform 1.4

Big update to the iPad app for creating 3D models for games and concept art adds SDF modeling system and 3D printing features.

Tuesday, April 29th, 2025

EZ-Tree is a lightweight free open-source tree generator

3D web developer Dan Greenheck's browser-based tool generates stylized 3D and 2D trees for games, online and illustration work.

Monday, April 28th, 2025

Substance 3D creator Sébastien Deguy to leave Adobe

Allegorithmic founder pays tribute to Substance 3D staff and artists after announcing decision to 'close this chapter of my career and life'.

Monday, April 28th, 2025

Download free Houdini tools from SideFX's Project Grot

Updated: Get tools for generating procedural ruins, bridges - and even procedural flesh - from the Houdini-to-UE5 game environment demo.

Sunday, April 27th, 2025

Master FACS Rigging for Facial Motion Capture

Create a FACS-based facial rig suitable for VFX or animation work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Maya tutorial.

Saturday, April 26th, 2025

Unity 6.1: discover 5 key features for CG artists

See the key features in the game engine and real-time renderer, from better 3D water to Variable Rate Shading and Deferred+ rendering.

Friday, April 25th, 2025

Adobe releases Photoshop 26.6

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including nifty new Select Details options in the AI-based Object Selection tool.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Chaos releases Corona 12 Update 2 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D

Update to the renderer adds over 3,100 Chaos Scans materials to the Cosmos library, and improves DoF and volumetric effects.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Get 260+ modular Wild West building assets for Unreal Engine

Get JustB Studios' 1850s Post Office Environment pack of 3D assets for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace. For commercial use.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Get VFX artist Thomas Marcos' free Blender clouds shader

Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

NVIDIA open-sources PhysX's GPU simulation code

Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

Hair Cinematic Tool 2.0 simplifies hair shading in Unreal Engine 5

Argentum Studio's in-house tool simplifies the process of lighting and rendering hair and fur in Unreal Engine 5.5. Free for a month.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025