Unity Technologies cuts price of ArtEngine by 80%
Cost of a basic subscription to the AI-based material-processing app falls from $1,140 to $228 per year.
Friday, September 3rd, 2021
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Get Adobe's Substance and Mixamo plugins for Blender
Updated: new free plugin for editing Substance materials inside Blender now also works on Linux.
Wednesday, September 1st, 2021
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.27
See our pick of UE4's new features, from more in-camera visual effects tools to multi-GPU lightmap baking.
Monday, August 23rd, 2021
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
3d-io ships Unwrella 4 for 3ds Max and Maya
Free update to the UV unwrapping tool adds neat UV packing system and Projection unwrapping mode.
Thursday, August 12th, 2021
Nvidia unveils new Substance 3D plugin for Omniverse
Just one of a new round of updates to Nvidia's collaboration platform to be announced at Siggraph 2021.
Tuesday, August 10th, 2021
Omniverse Audio2Face now supports Reallusion characters
Nvidia's free app now automatically lip syncs Character Creator head meshes to dialog in any language.
Saturday, August 7th, 2021
DSP Motion and DSP Action let you draw sound effects
Neat tools turn the motion of your mouse or stylus into sound FX for animation or motion graphics work.
Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
Ragdoll Dynamics adds real-time physics to your Maya rigs
Neat new plugin adds realistic dynamics to machines, muscles, cloth and hair in the Maya viewport.
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021
Discover how to create killer 3D creature concepts
Find out how to model and texture this Viper Dragon in The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.
Saturday, July 31st, 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
Foundry ships Modo 15.1
Modelling and rendering app gets new Curve Booleans system, plus updates to scene testing, the mPath renderer, and USD support.
Friday, July 23rd, 2021