Reallusion ships Headshot 1.0

AI-driven plugin for Character Creator generates 3D models of human heads from single source photos, with PBR texture maps.

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019

Check out neat retopology tool QuadRemesher

Updated: now available for Blender. Exoside's new tool turns messy models into clean all-quad meshes.

Tuesday, October 8th, 2019

Free 3D viewer Emb3D adds option to display models in AR

iOS and Android model viewer gets augmented reality support, plus new web app and cloud services.

Monday, September 30th, 2019

Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.7 for Maya

Soft tissue simulation plugin's neat Art Directable Rest Shapes system lets you sculpt corrective shapes for existing sims.

Thursday, September 26th, 2019

Andrei Sarmadac and Kun Shi release Rocket 3F 1.8

Streamlined modeling software gets new portable edition that can be run from a flash drive.

Friday, September 20th, 2019

RandomControl launches Maverick Indie

New half-price edition of spectral GPU renderer Maverick Studio is aimed at DCC work, not CAD users.

Friday, September 6th, 2019

Get promising Maya real-time Boolean plugin speedCut

Get Joe Wu's neat non-destructive real-time Boolean modelling add-on, currently in free open beta.

Wednesday, August 21st, 2019

See 10 great VFX breakdowns from the 2019 V-Ray showreel

See breakdowns of 10 key movies, TV series and ads created in V-Ray from Chaos Group's 2019 showreel.

Monday, August 12th, 2019

Modo, KeyShot and Blender to support RTX-based rendering

All three applications to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia's RTX GPUs in future.

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

Download Ten24's free hi-res 3D scan of a male human head

Get it from 3D Scan Store in ZTL, OBJ or FBX format, with up to 16,384 x 16,384-pixel PBR textures.

Thursday, June 27th, 2019

R3DS ships Wrap 3.4

Unique tool for retopologising facial and full-body scan data gets accurate new BlendWrapping mode, new sculpting brushes.

Wednesday, June 19th, 2019

Learn to create complex patterns in Substance Designer

Master workflows for detailing environment models with Santa Monica Studio artist Nate Stephens' new Gnomon tutorial.

Monday, May 27th, 2019

Master the art of Sculpting the Planes of the Head

Discover key anatomy principles and sculpting techniques in The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Thursday, April 18th, 2019