See the 2023 Blender development roadmap
See which major features are due in the open-source 3D software in 2023 - and which are delayed.
Tuesday, May 9th, 2023
Character Animation
5 expert tips to bring appeal to your facial animation
Disney animator Chatrasal Singh reveals his tips to improve the facial poses of your 3D characters.
Monday, April 24th, 2023
Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2024
Check out the latest workflow changes to the character animation and mocap data editing software.
Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
Maxon ships ZBrush 2023.1
Digital sculpting app gets neat new Proxy Pose and Drop 3D systems, but the new features are currently only available via subscriptions.
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
Autodesk releases Maya 2024
Wide-ranging update to the 3D animation tool adds new LookdevX toolset, gel simulation in Bifrost, and native Apple Silicon support.
Wednesday, March 29th, 2023
Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 6.0 for 3ds Max
Major update turns the gaseous fluid simulator into a multiphysics toolkit. Now subscription-only.
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023
Reallusion ships iClone 8.2 + iClone Unreal Live Link 1.2
Check out the new features in the real-time animation software and its live link plugin for Unreal Engine.
Friday, February 24th, 2023
Reallusion releases Character Creator 4.2
Character-creation tool gets long-awaited dynamic wrinkle system, better MetaHuman compatibility.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
Tutorial: Animating Body Mechanics in Maya
Learn character animation from DreamWorks' Kelly Vawter with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Sunday, February 5th, 2023
Mercenaries Engineering releases Rumba 1.2
Innovative character animation app gets revamped animation layer system, neat animatable sculpt tool.
Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
Sneak peek: dynamic wrinkles in Character Creator 4.2
Character creation tool to get long-awaited new system to increase the realism of facial animation.
Friday, January 20th, 2023
5 tips to get more from your 3D characters
[Sponsored] Discover how to reuse one character in many projects with Reallusion's Character Creator 4.1.
Thursday, December 29th, 2022
DeepMotion Animate 3D adds 'Avaturn' avatar-generation
Browser-based AI mocap tool gets new system for generating custom 3D avatars from simple selfies.
Friday, December 23rd, 2022