Omniverse Machinima and Audio2Face to enter beta
Nvidia's apps for remixing game assets and generating facial animation from audio files due in open beta this week.
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
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LuxCoreRender 2.5 and BlendLuxCore 2.5 ship
Wide-ranging update to the open-source renderer and its Blender plugin adds RTX acceleration, new stereo cameras.
Monday, April 12th, 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
Sneak peek: Lumberyard's new Atom renderer
Amazon's free game engine to get new 'high-performance physically based renderer' with an interesting modular design.
Friday, April 9th, 2021
Get Volume 2 of Epic's Virtual Production Field Guide for free
Free 158-page PDF provides an overview of new workflows and job opportunities in virtual production.
Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
Sketchfab's models of the month: March 2021
See the month's best real-time 3D models, from free 3D scanned environments to dogs in frog suits.
Thursday, April 1st, 2021
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.1 for Blender and Maya
Free GPU renderer get supports for Cryptomatte AOVs, and a new 16-bit Machine Learning denoiser.
Thursday, April 1st, 2021
Free Cesium for Unreal plugin creates a virtual Earth in UE4
New open-source plugin streams real-world geospatial data into UE4 from platforms like Cesium ion.
Wednesday, March 31st, 2021
Discover five key features for CG artists in Unity 2021.1
See the key changes to the game engine for non-programmers, from visual scripting to better rendering.
Monday, March 29th, 2021
Download the new free materials on Substance Source
Get 25 free scan-based procedural materials of natural environments and debris, all in .sbsar format.
Sunday, March 21st, 2021
Next Limit ships Maxwell 5.2
Physically based renderer gets GPU support for Multilight, including Nvidia's Ampere GPUs. Now loads Substance .sbsar files.
Friday, March 12th, 2021
Octane X is now available in the Mac App Store
Metal-native GPU renderer is now free for a year on any Mac capable of running macOS 11.2 Big Sur.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
mGear team ships mGear 3.7
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