Epic Games launches MetaHuman Creator
Hotly tipped next-gen character creator now free in early access, along with 50 sample characters.
Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
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Download the project files for Epic Games' Meerkat demo
Get the rigged 3D characters from Epic's beautiful new Unreal Engine demo free in Maya and UE4 format.
Thursday, December 10th, 2020
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26
Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.
Friday, December 4th, 2020
Create free, facially rigged CG characters with MB-Lab 1.7.8
Promising open-source tool can now create 3D characters licensed for use in commercial games work.
Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Reallusion ships July 2020 updates to digital human tools
Check out the new features in Character Creator 3.3, iClone 7.8 and the SkinGen Premium plugin.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2020
Master hair grooming with Yeti
Discover how to use the powerful Maya hair plugin in production with DreamWorks Animation hair lead Victor Javier Garza's full tutorial.
Friday, June 12th, 2020
Check out the new features coming up in Redshift 3.0
Check out the new features in the latest experimental build of the GPU production renderer.
Wednesday, May 27th, 2020
Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for Houdini Update 1
First update to the Houdini edition of the renderer adds support for custom AOVs and debug shading.
Thursday, May 21st, 2020
Get Pablo Munoz Gomez's free ZBrush hair brushes
Download the top concept artist's free ZBrush brushes for sculpting short hair, long hair and animal fur.
Wednesday, May 20th, 2020
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.25
See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from new ray traced materials to LIDAR support.
Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
Maxon ships Cinema 4D S22
First subscriber-only update to Cinema 4D overhauls the UV unwrapping tools and rolls out Maxon's new viewport architecture.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
Mercenaries Engineering releases Guerilla 2.2
Production renderer and look dev suite gets OpenColorIO support, USD export, Open Image Denoise.
Friday, March 27th, 2020
Check out Coiffure, a neat Maya add-on for real-time hair
Updated: Version 1.1 of TD Florian Croquet's tool for converting XGen hair to hair cards now works for feathers as well.
Thursday, February 6th, 2020