Get Christophe Desse's free 3D character models

Download some of the Naughty Dog artist's creations, including an OBJ/FBX Space Soldier and a ZTL male human head.

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015

Download Pablander's free Multi-Eye ZTool

Create customisable CG eyes with colour and surface detail with Pablo Munoz Gomez's neat ZBrush tool.

Monday, June 15th, 2015

Download a high-resolution 3D scan of a female head

Get Second Chance Games and VFX's raw scan data and hi-res sculpt, in ZTL and OBJ formats.

Monday, June 15th, 2015

Polygonal Design releases Unfold3D Generation 9

Big update to UV unwrapping tool adds neat brush-based workflows for optimising UVs; UDIM support and Lua scripting.

Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Luxion unveils KeyShot 6

New video: next update to the renderer to add node-based material system, interior lighting, region rendering.

Tuesday, June 9th, 2015

Discover the new features in Maya 2016

Videos: see the new sculpting tools, Delta Mush deformer, updates to Bifrost and revamped Hypershade.

Monday, April 13th, 2015

E-on software releases PlantFactory 2015

New users of the plant-creation tool get simplified UI and materials workflow; power users get Alembic, Ptex and GoZ support.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2015

VFX breakdowns of the month: February 2015

Check out the month's best tech demos, including some stunning work from The Mill and Blur Studio.

Saturday, February 28th, 2015

VFX breakdowns of the month: January 2015

Check out the month's best tech demos, including Tippett Studio, Unit Image and RealtimeUK.

Saturday, January 31st, 2015

Otoy unveils four new versions of OctaneRender

Updated: New video shows the GPU renderer inside Houdini. Nuke, MotionBuilder and UE4 to come.

Monday, January 19th, 2015

Amplify Creations releases Multi-Tile UV Bake Tool

Inexpensive 3ds Max plugin speeds up the process of baking multi-tile textures for Mari, Mudbox or ZBrush.

Friday, January 16th, 2015

Review: HP ZBook 15 mobile workstation

Jason Lewis puts HP's 15-inch professional mobile workstation through a battery of real-world tests.

Thursday, January 15th, 2015

Quantum Human cleans and rigs characters in one click

Cool work-in-progress Maya plugin promises complete automatic character setup, including muscles and facial coding.

Tuesday, January 13th, 2015