Nvidia fully open-sources MDL
Open-source version of Material Definition Language to include the MDL Distiller and GLSL backend for real-time and viewport rendering.
Friday, August 12th, 2022
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Nvidia announces plan to 'evolve USD beyond VFX'
Check out its roadmap for growing USD beyond the movie industry to become the 'foundation of the open metaverse'.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
Epic Games joins the Open 3D Foundation
Unreal Engine creator now a board member of the governing body for rival game engine Open 3D Engine.
Monday, July 25th, 2022
Material Maker 1.0 is out
Hotly tipped open-source material authoring and 3D texture painting app gets its milestone 1.0 release. Check out all of its new features.
Sunday, July 24th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 12.2
Material authoring app gets native M1 support. See what else is new, and what has been deprecated.
Wednesday, July 20th, 2022
Kinetix releases Kinetix 1.5
Check out the new features in the browser-based tool for turning video footage into 3D animation. You can use it for free in beta.
Tuesday, July 5th, 2022
Continuum 2022.5 ships
Update to Boris FX's set of effects plugins for compositing apps adds the option to emit particles from 3D models inside Particle Illusion.
Friday, June 24th, 2022
Adobe releases After Effects 22.5
Update to the compositing app improves text animation workflow when using non-Western lanuages.
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022
Adobe releases Character Animator 22.5
Puppet animation tool gets new free-to-use Starter mode, available to anyone with an Adobe account.
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022
Check out After Effects 3D plugin Helium 8.0
Check out the new features in the promising add-on for streamlining the process of creating 3D animation for motion graphics.
Friday, June 17th, 2022
Adobe ships Photoshop 23.4
Image editing software gets new Cylinder warp for packaging design, better masking of hair with the basic Object Selection tool.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2022
Photoshop now supports Substance .sbsar materials
Updated: see the UI and feature list for the Substance plugin available in the new beta build of Photoshop.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2022
Get the new Unity and UE5 Substance plugins
Edit .sbsar materials inside the latest versions of the game engines with Adobe's new free plugins.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2022