Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.3
Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new Texture Generators to add procedural noise to materials. Perpetual licenses discontinued.
Friday, January 26th, 2024
AI-based
InstaMAT Studio is now available
Promising new app combines 3D texture painting, node-based material authoring and AI features. Free if you earn under $100k/year.
Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Topaz Labs releases Gigapixel 7
AI-based app upscales images by up to 600% without losing detail, including 3D renders. Check out the changes in the latest release.
Monday, January 22nd, 2024
Sneak peek: Cascadeur for mobile
Check out Nekki's preview video of the phone and tablet edition of its AI-assisted character animation software, due in beta later this year.
Thursday, January 18th, 2024
Blockade Labs rolls out Skybox AI 0.9
Online tool for generating 360° environments from text prompts or sketches now generates 3D world meshes as well as 2D skyboxes.
Tuesday, December 26th, 2023
Radical now supports real-time facial motion-capture
Browser-based AI mocap platform now extracts facial and full-body animation from the same video. Available with free subscriptions.
Friday, December 22nd, 2023
Dimension 5 Techs releases D5 Render 2.6
Check out the new AI features in the GPU-based ray tracing renderer, including automatic atmosphere and texture generation.
Friday, December 15th, 2023
How new AI workflows helped create indie VFX short BYE-BYE
VFX artist Freddy Chávez Olmos reveals how generative AI and Nuke's CopyCat toolset created digital make-up for his horror short.
Friday, December 8th, 2023
Adobe releases Photoshop 25.2 and Photoshop on the iPad 5.3
Check out the workflow changes in the desktop edition of the image editing software, and the generative AI tools in the tablet edition.
Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
Otoy unveils the Octane 2024 product roadmap
Check out the features due in the GPU renderer in 2024, including MaterialX support, new AI assistant OctaneGPT, and light field baking.
Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
Boris FX releases Continuum 2024
Effects plugins for compositing and video editing apps get new AI-based video denoising and upresing tools, new audio visualizer effect.
Monday, November 27th, 2023
Wonder Studio gets new Blender and Maya plugins
Free add-ons help prepare your 3D characters for use on the AI-powered online platform for adding CG characters to live action scenes.
Thursday, November 16th, 2023
Discover the key features of Houdini 20
Read our run-down of the key changes in the largest ever update to Houdini, from character animation to rendering and machine learning.
Thursday, November 9th, 2023