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cloth simulation

Big update to the 3D clothing design tool adds a new fur material, new keyframe animation capabilities, and a modular garment library.

Wednesday, April 30th, 2025

Significant update to the new iPad edition of the digital sculpting app adds long-awaited poly modeling and UV unwrapping toolsets.

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025

Asset baking and export add-on can now bake PBR textures from any Blender shader set-up, not just the Principled BSDF shader.

Saturday, March 15th, 2025

Master character effects workflows for animation, cinematics and VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Houdini tutorial.

Sunday, March 2nd, 2025

Get started with the industry-standard tool for creating clothing for 3D characters with The Gnomon Workshop's beginners' guide.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2024

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Tuesday, December 24th, 2024

Check out the new features in the 3D clothing design software, including improvements to its real-time simulation toolset.

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024

Maya's multiphysics plugin gets experimental new modular rigging toolset, plus the option to generate variant simulations in the cloud.

Saturday, October 12th, 2024

Much-anticipated iPad edition of the sculpting app lets artists work on the move. Read FAQs on its feature set, its limitations, and its price.

Tuesday, September 10th, 2024

Check out this promising new 3D clothing design tool for VFX and game development, and its Unreal Engine cloth simulation plugin.

Wednesday, August 28th, 2024

Multiphysics add-on's tyDiffusion module generates AI renders and animations matching 3ds Max scenes. Included in the free edition.

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024

See all the key features in the next major update to Houdini, from modeling, animation and simulation to the COPERNICUS framework.

Friday, June 14th, 2024

Major update to the Maya crowds tool adds new workflows for creating shots without simulation, and a new UE5-style ML Deformer.

Thursday, June 6th, 2024