3Dpresso creates 3D models from videos of real objects

Online service recreates props and furniture for use in games and AR, and can be trialed for free. Now comes with a new iOS app.

Saturday, July 20th, 2024

Boris FX releases Particle Illusion Pro 2024.5

Particle generation tool for motion graphics and VFX gets support for particle blending modes, new set of Position Path Presets.

Friday, July 19th, 2024

Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.12

Check out the lastest features in the virtual reality modeling software, like this interesting shape matching feature in the new Assets panel.

Friday, July 19th, 2024

Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.5

Material authoring and 3D capture software can now send materials directly to 3ds Max, Blender, Maya, Unity and Unreal Engine 5.

Thursday, July 18th, 2024

Maxon releases Redshift 3.6.04

3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D and Maya renderer gets motion-graphics-friendly new Distance shader, plus updates to Redshift RT.

Thursday, July 18th, 2024

Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2024.5

Check out the latest features in the 3D animation app, including updates to the particle and simulation tools, and a new Undo History.

Thursday, July 18th, 2024

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 8.2.2

Real-time lighting design software can now 'paint' highlights and shadows directly into interactive renders from Blender.

Wednesday, July 17th, 2024

5 key features in Blender 4.2

Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source 3D software, from new digital sculpting tools and GPU compositing to 'Eevee Next'.

Tuesday, July 16th, 2024

Check out Blender crowd-creation tool Procedural Crowds Pro

Promising add-on for the open-source 3D app generates large animated background crowds from a library of scanned 3D characters.

Monday, July 15th, 2024

Get artist-friendly 3D animation software Akeystu for free

Unconventional character rigging and animation tool is no longer being developed commercially, so you can now download it for free.

Sunday, July 14th, 2024

Tutorial: Recreating a Historical Portrait in 3D

Discover how to create a realistic 3D character from scan data with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed guide to character art.

Sunday, July 14th, 2024

Sharan Vaswani's IPOPs Toolset streamlines VFX work in Houdini

Former ReDefine FX Supervisor's set of HDAs speeds up shader and AOV development in Houdini's Karma and Mantra renderers.

Friday, July 12th, 2024

Eevee Next finally arrives in Blender

Discover how to port old scenes to use the long-awaited overhaul of the Eevee renderer ahead of its release in Blender 4.2 next week.

Friday, July 12th, 2024