Zibra AI unveils ZibraVDB
Now officially released: new AI tech compresses offline smoke and fire sims "up to 100x" for rendering in real time in Unreal Engine 5.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
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Autodesk launches Flow Generative Scheduling
AI tech helps VFX and animation studios generate variant schedules for projects to assess the impact of deadline and staffing changes.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
Adobe rolls out Generate Image in Photoshop 25.11
New text-to-image generative AI feature reaches the stable release of Photoshop. Check out the other new features in Photoshop 25.11 here.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2024
Basefount releases Animcraft 5.0
Unusual tool for creating software-agnostic animation libraries gets new AI-based markerless full-body motion-capture system
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
3Dpresso creates 3D models from videos of real objects
Online service recreates props and furniture for use in games and AR, and can be trialed for free. Now comes with a new iOS app.
Saturday, July 20th, 2024
Dimension 5 Techs releases D5 Render 2.8
Check out the new features in the GPU renderer, including the new AI Enhancer, Sunlight Caustics and better translucent materials.
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
DeepMotion launches AI text-to-animation service SayMotion 1.5
Browser-based tool lets you create animations for humanoid characters by typing text prompts. Free in open beta, including for commercial use
Saturday, June 29th, 2024
Boris FX releases Continuum 2024.5
Check out the new AI-based video retiming and face detection tools in the set of effects plugins for compositing and video editing apps.
Friday, June 21st, 2024
CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 2024.1
3D clothing design app gets new PBR texture map generator, plus experimental new generative AI tools for patterns and graphics.
Tuesday, June 18th, 2024
Foundry releases Nuke 15.1, NukeX 15.1 and Nuke Studio 15.1
Compositing and editorial applications get new 3D 'Time Ops' features, and updates to BlinkScript, OpenAssetIO and the AI tools.
Friday, June 14th, 2024
Sneak peek: Houdini 20.5
See all the key features in the next major update to Houdini, from modeling, animation and simulation to the COPERNICUS framework.
Friday, June 14th, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.4
Material-authoring app gets new generative AI features for creating textures or patterns from text prompts and refererence images.
Friday, May 24th, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 3.0.2
Shot layout and rendering app gets Firefly AI-based Generative Background system and improved real-time rendering.
Friday, May 24th, 2024