Allegorithmic ships Substance Painter 2018.2
3D painting tool adds subsurface scattering, viewport gizmos for fill layers, Alembic and glTF import.
Friday, August 3rd, 2018
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Polywink creates blendshapes and rigs for any head model
Digital doubles firm Eisko's new online service also readies 3D avatars for animation on iPhone X.
Wednesday, July 25th, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.20
Artists get new Niagara modular VFX editor, new options for shading human skin, plus cinematic DoF.
Saturday, July 21st, 2018
3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 4.0
Big update to image-based modelling tool improves speed and accuracy of mesh generation, adds new camera calibration manger.
Wednesday, July 18th, 2018
Oculus ships Medium 2.0
VR modelling tool gets new Elastic mode for sculpting, support for grid and angle snapping, fewer limits on layers, undo operations and lights.
Monday, July 2nd, 2018
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2019.1
Update improves Alembic support and performance of OSL shaders; adds new Projects toolbar plus helper tools for Fluids simulations.
Wednesday, June 13th, 2018
F12 ships The Grove Release 6
Free update to tree generation tool adds new controls for dead branches, plus big improvements to workflow and simulation quality.
Monday, June 4th, 2018
Get Allan McKay's free eight-hour plasma VFX tutorial
VFX supervisor's new free training course comes with full project files in MAX, FBX and Alembic formats.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
Face Cap lets you record facial mocap data on your iPhone X
Nifty free app uses the iPhone X's TrueDepth camera to capture facial mocap and export it in FBX format.
Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
Download Chico Spans' three game-ready CG tree models
Get Unreal Engine-ready tree assets, with SpeedTree project files or the FBX models and textures.
Sunday, May 27th, 2018
Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 1.15
Promising new crowd-simulation tool for Maya and Houdini gets support for cloth and dynamic fur.
Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
Unity 2018.1 is now shipping. Check out the highlights here
It's a huge update, so get up to speed faster with our run-down of the key features for CG artists.
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
Download E*D Films' free Scene Track exporter for Unity
Record gameplay in real time, then export the animation data in FBX format with this neat free add-on.
Sunday, April 1st, 2018