Omniverse Audio2Face now generates facial blendshapes
Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio can now create sets of facial shapes for export in USD format.
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
Blender
LuxCoreRender 2.6 and BlendLuxCore 2.6 ship
Open-source renderer and its Blender plugin get support for OpenColorIO 2. Parsing of mesh lights '3x faster'.
Tuesday, January 4th, 2022
5 tools updates you may have missed in December 2021
Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.
Monday, January 3rd, 2022
Best Black Friday and winter 2021 discounts for CG artists
Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
Intel becomes latest Blender Corporate Patron
Open-source 3D app now receives at least €120,000/year from all major CPU and GPU manufacturers.
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021
Download 290+ free MaterialX materials from AMD's library
New GPUOpen MaterialX library provides free PBR materials in the new open format for look dev data.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
Download AMD's free USD Hydra plugin for Blender
Now officially shipping: new plugin lets users import, compose and render USD scenes in Blender.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
RandomControl ships Maverick Studio and Indie 2021.6
GPU renderers for visualisation and portfolio work get versatile object scattering and instancing system.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
See Facebook Reality Labs' work on Cycles in Blender
New Alembic procedural speeds up viewport rendering of animation caches by up to 12x in Blender 3.0.
Monday, December 13th, 2021
KeenTools ships FaceBuilder 2021.4 for Nuke and Blender
Check out the new features in the popular plugin for generating 3D heads from source photographs.
Saturday, December 11th, 2021
Blender 3.0 ships
Updated: see our pick of the five key changes in this milestone release of the open-source 3D app, from Cycles X to the Pose Library.
Friday, December 3rd, 2021
5 tools updates you may have missed in November 2021
See what's new in RenderMan, Redshift, Enscape, R3DS Wrap and Render Manager 2 for 3ds Max.
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
Sketchfab's models of the month: November 2021
See the month's best real-time 3D models, from Arcane fan art to a downloadable kit of parts for steampunk buildings.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2021