Infinigen: a free generator for procedural 3D environments
Intriguing Blender-based tool can automatically generate 3D terrain, plants - and even rigged creatures.
Thursday, July 13th, 2023
cloth simulation
CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 12.1
3D clothing design software gets USD import and export, plus experimental Omniverse connector.
Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Autodesk ships Bifrost for Maya 2.7.1
Maya multiphysics plugin gets better voxel smoothing, volume rendering, Component Tag support.
Monday, May 15th, 2023
Unreal Engine 5.2: five key features for CG artists
Read our run-down of the latest features in UE5, from procedural content and Substrate materials to Chaos Flesh.
Friday, May 12th, 2023
Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2023.2
3D animation and motion graphics app gets new Thicken generator, updates to Pyro simulations and the Commander.
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
Tyson Ibele releases tyFlow 1.012 for 3ds Max
Major update adds complete new terrain-generation system to the Max particle and physics add-on.
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
Substance 3D Designer's creators win Sci-Tech Awards
Other tech 'Oscars' go to Pixar's Fizt2 simulation system and Wētā FX's in-house render manager.
Friday, February 3rd, 2023
Free tool: Reallusion's Auto Setup for Unity
Edit characters exported from Character Creator or iClone in the Unity Editor with this handy plugin.
Thursday, January 5th, 2023
Imbalance releases Ragdoll Dynamics 3.0 for Maya
Ace real-time physics tool now lets you pose characters simply by pulling them around like puppets.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
Try Blender's new node-based simulation framework
Long-awaited expansion of the Geometry Nodes system now available as an experimental branch of Blender.
Monday, November 28th, 2022
Best Black Friday and winter 2022 deals for CG artists
Updated: save money with these seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.
Monday, November 28th, 2022
CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 12
3D clothing design tool gets option to edit, blend and retime simulation caches, plus improved retopology.
Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Insydium releases NeXus
New GPU-accelerated particle, liquid and granular fluid simulation system for CInema 4D runs on AMD, Apple Silicon, Nvidia GPUs.
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022