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See the new features due in the next major version of Houdini, including updates to animation and simulation and the Karma renderer.

Thursday, October 19th, 2023

Popular real-time smoke and fire simulator gets support for ground plane shadows, and initial support for importing skinned meshes.

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023

New plugin makes it easier to refine head meshes from Character Creator in ZBrush, including sculpting custom expressions.

Tuesday, October 17th, 2023

Browser-based service generates low-poly 3D props and characters for indie games or AR projects from simple text descriptions.

Monday, October 16th, 2023

Big update to the browser-based AI mocap system makes it possible to capture up to eight characters from a single video.

Wednesday, October 11th, 2023

Check out the new features in the open-source game engine and new third-party add-ons like this volumetric cloudscapes system.

Wednesday, October 11th, 2023

Announcement follows controversial recent pricing and licensing changes for the Unity game engine.,

Tuesday, October 10th, 2023

Improve the clarity and phyicality of your animation with The Gnomon Workshop's advanced masterclass.

Saturday, October 7th, 2023

UE5 to become a 'licensable piece of software like Maya and Photoshop' for non-games work like VFX, animation and visualization.

Thursday, October 5th, 2023

Update to the USD integration plugin makes it possible to author, import or export MaterialX materials from 3ds Max.

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023

Reallusion's free auto-rigging tool now also generates animated previews of your 3D characters to share with clients or collaborators.

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023

Check out the upcoming features in the digital sculpting software, including a neat new Replay system, and integrated Cinema 4D noises.

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

But the firm 'continues to invest' in Unreal Engine, MetaHuman, Megascans, Twinmotion and RealityCapture, despite 830 job cuts.

Friday, September 29th, 2023