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Big update to the open-source Maya rigging framework adds new tools to auto-rig game characters, and for using mGear rigs in UE4.

Tuesday, March 9th, 2021

See the past month's best real-time 3D assets, including this ingenious 45-second animated CG short.

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021

Updated: new connection plugins available for Nvidia's collaboration platform, now in free public beta.

Friday, February 26th, 2021

See the month's best real-time 3D assets, from a NASA-inspired mech to free car and creature models.

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021

Material-authoring software gets support for Pantone colours - and now exports actual 3D geometry.

Friday, January 29th, 2021

Powerful virtual reality design tool now free to individual artists, including OBJ, FBX, IGES export.

Tuesday, January 26th, 2021

Get Renderbot's free scans of adults and children for use in commercial visualisation work.

Sunday, January 10th, 2021

See the month's best real-time 3D models, from free game assets to a striking 3D portrait of Lou Reed.

Monday, January 4th, 2021

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

Cloud-based AR, VR and rendering platform gets 'world's first real-time web GPU path traced rendering'.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

New free beta of the promising physics and AI-based animation tool adds an auto-keying system.

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020

UV unwrapping tools' neat new TopoCopy system is 'first unique feature in UV mapping in years'.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2020