Epic Games launches MetaHuman Creator
Hotly tipped next-gen character creator now free in early access, along with 50 sample characters.
Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
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AXYZ design ships anima 4.1
3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and Unreal Engine crowd animation tool gets GPU decoding for faster playback on Nvidia graphics cards.
Wednesday, December 30th, 2020
Basefount releases Animcraft
Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.26
Update to the free game engine officially replaces CryPhysics with PhysX, and improves the terrain and dynamic vegetation systems.
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Create free, facially rigged CG characters with MB-Lab 1.7.8
Promising open-source tool can now create 3D characters licensed for use in commercial games work.
Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.25
Sizeable update to the free AAA game engine introduces new UI, plus white box testing and node-based landscape authoring tools.
Monday, July 20th, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.24
Check out the changes to PhysX physics, cloth simulation and collision geometry in the latest version of the free game engine.
Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Check out neat ZBrush retopology tool EaZyremesh
Interesting new $7 tool lets users control edge flow on remeshed geometry by painting guide lines.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.23
Free game engine gets new cloth simulation system for clothing and environment assets, plus better character animation performance.
Monday, February 24th, 2020
Master production workflows for Maya's nCloth toolset
Discover how to simulation clothing in Maya with The Gnomon Workshop's new video training.
Monday, January 27th, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.21
Game engine gets new automated secondary animation system, support for PhysX 4.1, updates to the visual programming system.
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019
Download 10 free 3D models for visualisation work
Get 3Dmodels.com's free assets, from clothes and furnishings to trees and cars. Multiple formats, commercial use.
Sunday, May 12th, 2019
SideFX ships Houdini 17
Videos: major Houdini update adds Vellum multphysics solver, new cloth and hair tools, material-based facturing and simulation retiming.
Wednesday, October 10th, 2018