Tutorial: Environment 3D Matte Painting Techniques
Master advanced digital matte painting techniques with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Wednesday, August 16th, 2023
Blender
Pilgway releases 3DCoat 2023.26
Big update to the digital sculpting and retopology app adds Vector Displacement Maps, Python API.
Tuesday, August 15th, 2023
Download free Blender add-on Bystedt's Cloth Builder
Handy new free add-on streamlines cloth simulation workflow inside the open-source 3D software.
Monday, August 14th, 2023
GeoTracker for Blender available in free beta
KeenTools' intuitive 3D tracking plugin gets new Blender edition. Works with both props and faces.
Wednesday, August 9th, 2023
Treezy generates animated trees inside Blender
Lightweight add-on generates customisable wind-animated trees inside the open-source 3D app. Check out the Treezy 1.1 update.
Wednesday, August 9th, 2023
Autodesk announces new generative AI tools in Maya
New AI services will let artists generate materials, textures or HDRIs inside Maya's LookdevX.
Wednesday, August 9th, 2023
Check out Plasticity's new Blender bridge
Popular lightweight NURBS modeller gets add-on live-linking it to the open-source 3D software.
Friday, August 4th, 2023
QuiltiX: a new open-source MaterialX material editor
Free node-based tool lets users author MaterialX materials for use in renderers like Arnold and Karma.
Thursday, August 3rd, 2023
ASWF adopts OpenImageIO
Ubiquitous tech for reading and writing images becomes the latest open-source project to be hosted by the visual effects industry body.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2023
Tutorial: Designing Environments for Games
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to use Blender's Grease Pencil toolset to sketch concepts in 3D.
Sunday, July 30th, 2023
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.17
Release 'lays the foundation' for non-photorealistic rendering in the GPU/CPU renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Maya and Houdini.
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
Get Poliigon's 100+ free 3D models, textures and HDRIs
Download 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Maya and SketchUp models, plus PBR texture sets and 18K HDRIs.
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
See the roadmap for Blender's Animation 2025 project
Intial release schedule announced for the major overhaul of Blender's rigging and animation systems.
Tuesday, July 18th, 2023