Modular Maya character rig builder Mansur-Rig is now free
High-performance facial and full-body rig builder for animation, VFX and game characters is now free, including for commercial projects.
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
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Imbalance releases Ragdoll for Blender 1.0
Much-praised Ragdoll Dynamics physics system, used by top VFX and games studios, is now available for Blender as well as Maya.
Friday, March 1st, 2024
InstaMAT Studio is now available
Promising new app combines 3D texture painting, node-based material authoring and AI features. Free if you earn under $100k/year.
Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Pilgway releases 3DCoat 2023.26
Big update to the digital sculpting and retopology app adds Vector Displacement Maps, Python API.
Tuesday, August 15th, 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
AMD releases FSR 2.2
Open-source render upscaling tech for games and DCC apps now supports temporal upscaling. See what's new in the latest update.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
Epic releases MetaHuman DNA Calibration Library
Epic Games' new free tools let users view and edit the 'DNA' of next-gen MetaHuman characters.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
Autodesk releases USD for 3ds Max 0.3
Third beta of the plugin adds a USD Stage Object for referencing entire USD scenes inside 3ds Max.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
Pilgway ships 3DCoat 2022 and 3DCoatTextura 2022
New 2022.35 update lets users sculpt and paint simultaneously with any of 3DCoat's voxel brushes.
Monday, July 4th, 2022
Autodesk ships Maya 2023.1
3D animation software gets updates to Boolean modelling, vertex painting and HumanIK, plus new C++ SDK in Bifrost for Maya.
Thursday, June 16th, 2022
Maxon releases Universe 5.1
Under-the-hood update to the library of effects for compositing and editing apps adds native support for Apple's M1 processors.
Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
Check out super-cool 3ds Max snow plugin PolySnow Plus
Neat plugin for adding realistic snow to 3D scenes gets brush-based sculpting, new icicle object.
Friday, February 19th, 2021
Discover 10 key features for CG artists in Unity 2020.2
Read our pick of the new features in the game engine, from ray traced reflections to real-time compositing.
Monday, December 21st, 2020