Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 1.7

Texture painting software gets updated brush engine, plus new Dota 2, car paint and velvet shaders.

Friday, December 18th, 2015

Gnomon ships Creating a Sci-Fi Alleyway

Create immersive production-ready scenes with Devon Fay's six-hour guide to CG environment work.

Thursday, December 17th, 2015

Download Chaos Group's free Guide to VR

Free 22-page ebook sets out best practices for converting rendered content into virtual reality scenes.

Thursday, December 17th, 2015

Joe Alter releases Shave and a Haircut 9.6

Maya hair plugin gets first big update in several years, improving viewport performance and grooming tools.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2015

Red Giant releases Universe 1.6

Online library of add-ons for editing and compositing tools gets six new effects: from heat distortion to 1980s-style titles.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2015

AlphaVFX ships BulletFX 3.0 for 3ds Max

Updated: New extension release gives the multiphysics plugin support for variable viscosity fluids and a new foam solver.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2015

Code-Artists releases AutoModeller Pro for Max

Updated: Paint meshes across the surface of 3ds Max objects to create insanely detailed scenes. Price now cut to €249.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2015

Watch Designing 3D Characters for Games

Riot Games' Gary Huang explains his workflow at a free event at Gnomon in LA on Wednesday. Watch free online.

Monday, December 14th, 2015

Autodesk unveils Maya LT 2016 Extension 2

Subscriber-only update adds option to import or export weight maps, new baking and LOD functionality.

Friday, December 11th, 2015

Sketchfab adds animation support

Updated, now out of beta: Upload animations to the model-viewing service in FBX format and see them play in your browser.

Friday, December 11th, 2015

Unity Technologies releases Unity 5.3

Game engine gets support for dynamic raytraced reflections, updates to particles and 2D physics.

Wednesday, December 9th, 2015

Ten24 posts 12 interactive figure scans free online

View them in a web browser and adjust light and camera positions to get the anatomy reference you need.

Wednesday, December 9th, 2015

DGDM ships SLiB | Browser and SLiB | Browser Pro 1.0

Maya plugins for browsing shaders get new search and favourites options. Base edition is still free.

Tuesday, December 8th, 2015