Blender 3.3 LTS ships
See our pick of the 5 key new features in the open-source 3D software, from new hair grooming tools to better planar tracking.
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022
Blender
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.4
Material authoring tool can now expose parameters to make the materials it creates editable in other DCC apps.
Tuesday, September 6th, 2022
Polygoniq ships botaniq Maya
Popular Blender library of ready-to-use 3D trees now also available for Maya. Includes controls to adjust tree colour and seasonal state.
Monday, September 5th, 2022
Check out promising browser-based AI mocap tool Plask
Neat tool extracts full body animation from video in FBX and BVH format. Now supports multi-person capture.
Saturday, September 3rd, 2022
Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2022.1 VS and RS
UV unwrapping tools get new planar UV projection mode, Python 3 scripting, Apple Silicon support.
Thursday, September 1st, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D add-on for Blender 0.91
See what's new in this major compatibility-breaking update to the Substance plugin for Blender.
Tuesday, August 16th, 2022
Tutorial: Creating Cinematic Compositions for Production
Discover how to create arresting visual development images in The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Sunday, August 14th, 2022
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
Intel unveils Arc Pro A-Series A50, A40 and A30m GPUs
Check out the key specs of the three new discrete GPUs, aimed at professional CG and video work.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2022
GauGAN360 turns doodles into 360-degree environments
Nvidia's new AI art demo turns sketches into 360° environment maps for use inside 3D software.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2022
Nvidia unveils NeuralVDB
'Next evolution' of OpenVDB brings the power of AI to volumetric data, reducing the memory footprint of fluid simulations by up to 100x.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
Physically Based lists PBR values for real-world materials
Need to recreate ketchup in your CG software? This free online database has the info you need.
Monday, August 8th, 2022
KeenTools ships FaceBuilder 2022.2 for Blender and Nuke
Turn photos of actors into matching MetaHumans with the new version of the head-generation plugin.
Friday, August 5th, 2022