Sketchfab's models of the month: August 2021
See the month's best real-time 3D models, from samurai skaters to free downloadable vehicle models.
Wednesday, September 1st, 2021
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JangaFX cuts price of EmberGen for indie users
Cost of the real-time gaseous fluid simulator down 15-20% for anyone earning under $1 million per year.
Friday, August 20th, 2021
Autodesk ships Maya 2022.1
3D animation software gets new global search feature, tools for authoring interactive tutorials, and updates to the deformer system.
Thursday, July 29th, 2021
Nekki ships Cascadeur 2021.2
Unusual physics-based animation software gets a new Graph Editor, new tools for tweening character poses, and new spline IK system.
Thursday, July 29th, 2021
The FreeMoCap Project: markerless mocap for $100?
Promising open-source project aims to track bodies, fingers and faces on two consumer webcams.
Monday, July 26th, 2021
Sketchfab's models of the month: June 2021
See the month's best real-time 3D models, from free characters to entire miniature animated worlds.
Friday, July 2nd, 2021
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2022.1
Check out the updates to Smart Extrude, modifiers and retopology in the latest version of the 3D modelling and rendering software.
Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
Sketchfab's models of the month: May 2021
See the month's best real-time 3D models, from cute cats to free downloadable characters, creatures and cars.
Tuesday, June 1st, 2021
D5 Render 1.9 ships
Dimension 5's rapidly evolving RTX-accelerated GPU renderer for 3ds Max and Blender gets new time-and-latitude based sky system.
Friday, May 28th, 2021
Toolchefs ships Atoms VFX 4.0 and AtomsUnreal 2.0
Crowd animation system for Maya and Houdini gets new behaviour tree. UE4 plugin also now updated.
Saturday, May 22nd, 2021
Godot 3.3 ships
Unexpectedly major update to the game engine adds a new web editor, new CPU lightmapper, and native support for Apple's M1 chips.
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Nekki ships Cascadeur 2021.1
First commercial release of the unusual physics-based animation app adds neat new Auto Physics tool. Still free to indie users, too.
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
Get 1,000+ free 3D models of objects from Polish museums
Download 3D models of sculptures and household objects under a CC0 licence. Formats include OBJ, glTF and Blender.
Sunday, April 11th, 2021