Shapelab 2024 is now free to students worldwide
Studying at a school or college? Grab a free perpetual license of the desktop and VR sculpting software, normally priced at $69.99.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
game development
Zibra AI unveils ZibraVDB
Now officially released: new AI tech compresses offline smoke and fire sims "up to 100x" for rendering in real time in Unreal Engine 5.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
NVIDIA unveils fVDB
New deep learning framework built on OpenVDB is intended to enable developers and researchers to build city-scale generative AI models.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
3D scanning app Kiri Engine 3.9 now auto-rigs your 3D models
iOS and Android scanning app now generates character rigs for the 3D models it generates. There are updates to the free edition, too.
Monday, July 29th, 2024
Group test: AMD Radeon Pro W7000 Series workstation GPUs
Discover which of AMD's professional GPUs is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests.
Thursday, July 25th, 2024
Free tool: P4Houdini builds version control into Houdini
Now available free, technical artist Paul Ambrosiussen's P4Houdini plugin integrates Houdini with Perforce's version control tech.
Thursday, July 25th, 2024
Basefount releases Animcraft 5.0
Unusual tool for creating software-agnostic animation libraries gets new AI-based markerless full-body motion-capture system
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
GeoGen is now in public beta
JangaFX's real-time terrain design tool is out of alpha. Check out the new features in GeoGen 0.3, like spline editing of terrain.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
LiquiGen is now available to buy
JangaFX's real-time liquid simulator is now in public alpha. Check out the new features in LiquiGen 0.3, like whitewater and surface tension.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
JangaFX releases EmberGen 1.2
Real-time smoke and fire simulator for games and VFX gets movable, parentable simulation domains, and live recording in the timeline.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
Tutorial: Character Asset Creation for Cinematics - Vol. 1
Discover how to create a detailed, animation-ready fantasy character with Maya and ZBrush in The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Sunday, July 21st, 2024
3Dpresso creates 3D models from videos of real objects
Online service recreates props and furniture for use in games and AR, and can be trialed for free. Now comes with a new iOS app.
Saturday, July 20th, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.12
Check out the lastest features in the virtual reality modeling software, like this interesting shape matching feature in the new Assets panel.
Friday, July 19th, 2024