Epic Games joins the Open 3D Foundation
Unreal Engine creator now a board member of the governing body for rival game engine Open 3D Engine.
Monday, July 25th, 2022
Blender
Sneak peek: Sculptron's crazy new cloth sculpting tools
Check out the eye-catching cloth brush and wrinkle deformer due in the GPU-based sculpting app.
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
Download free Blender 3D building generator Buildify
Cool free tool also integrates with the Blender OpenStreetMap plugin to recreate entire real cities in 3D.
Wednesday, July 20th, 2022
Download BtoA: the free Arnold plugin for Blender
Community-made plugin lets you render Blender animations, VFX and visualisations in Autodesk's Arnold renderer.
Friday, July 15th, 2022
This neat free plugin lets you import OpenVDBs into UE5
Eidos-Montréal's UnrealVDB lets users view VDB files inside Unreal Engine and render them with its path tracer.
Wednesday, July 13th, 2022
Preview: Blender's new hair tools and viewport compositor
Check out the curve-based hair system due in Blender 3.3, and the upcoming real-time compositor.
Monday, July 11th, 2022
Kinetix releases Kinetix 1.5
Check out the new features in the browser-based tool for turning video footage into 3D animation. You can use it for free in beta.
Tuesday, July 5th, 2022
J Cube releases Multiverse | USD 7.1 for Maya
Check out the new features in this sizeable update to the USD-native shot layout and look dev solution.
Monday, July 4th, 2022
Maxon releases Redshift for AMD in public beta
Once Nvidia-only GPU renderer now supports AMD gaming and workstation GPUs on Windows as well as macOS.
Monday, June 27th, 2022
Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 4.5
Check out the new features in the toolkit for turning 3ds Max, Blender and Maya scenes into interactive browser and mobile apps.
Friday, June 17th, 2022
Sketchfab's models of the month: June 2022
See the month's best real-time 3D models, from manga fan art to free downloadable environment scans.
Thursday, June 16th, 2022
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.4 for Blender and Maya
Free physically based renderer gets new Atmosphere and Fog system, shadow override controls.
Thursday, June 9th, 2022
Blender 3.2 ships
Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D app, from the new 3D painting tools to Light Groups and fast shadow caustics.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022