Reallusion launches AI Voice Actors plugin for iClone
Free plugin linking Replica Studios' AI voice system to iClone turns text into voice-acted facial animation.
Thursday, July 15th, 2021
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Weta Digital unveils WetaM
New cloud-based service will let VFX artists use 100 of Weta's Academy Award-winning in-house tools inside a custom build of Maya.
Thursday, June 17th, 2021
Unity Technologies releases ArtEngine 2021.5
AI-based texture-processing tool gets automated feature masking, plus option to export project files.
Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
Intel releases Open Image Denoise 1.4
Check out this major update to the CPU-based render denoising system used in Blender and Unity.
Monday, May 24th, 2021
Nekki ships Cascadeur 2021.1
First commercial release of the unusual physics-based animation app adds neat new Auto Physics tool. Still free to indie users, too.
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
Omniverse Machinima and Audio2Face to enter beta
Nvidia's apps for remixing game assets and generating facial animation from audio files due in open beta this week.
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
Discover five key features for CG artists in Unity 2021.1
See the key changes to the game engine for non-programmers, from visual scripting to better rendering.
Monday, March 29th, 2021
Corel ships Painter Essentials 8
Sub-$50 natural media painting software gets support for Apple's M1 chips, more AI-based auto-paint options, new colour harmonies.
Tuesday, February 16th, 2021
Adobe ships After Effects 17.6
Compositing software's Content Aware-Fill object removal system now compensates automatically for lighting changes across a shot.
Thursday, January 14th, 2021
Agisoft ships Metashape 1.7
Check out the new features in the photogrammetry tool, including faster depth map generation and integration with laser scan data.
Friday, January 8th, 2021
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2020.3b
New free beta of the promising physics and AI-based animation tool adds an auto-keying system.
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D
Long-awaited rewrite of the C4D renderer adds built-in compositing and new GPU rendering features.
Friday, December 11th, 2020
Autodesk ships Flame 2021.2
Compositing and finishing software's neat AI-driven Salient Keyer automatically mattes any selected object within an image.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2020