Maxon acquires Pixologic
Pixologic founder Ofer Alon and entire ZBrush team have joined Maxon. See what the deal means for ZBrush and its sibling products.
Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
Maya
Omniverse Audio2Face now generates facial blendshapes
Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio can now create sets of facial shapes for export in USD format.
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
Nvidia launches Omniverse: still free to individual artists
Real-time collaboration platform for 3D design and content creation now out of beta. Check out all of its latest features here.
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
5 tools updates you may have missed in December 2021
Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.
Monday, January 3rd, 2022
Discover how to create complex vegetation for games
Create trees and grasses for use in Unreal Engine with Naughty Dog artist Peyton Varney's new Gnomon Workshop tutorial.
Monday, December 27th, 2021
Best Black Friday and winter 2021 discounts for CG artists
Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
Download 290+ free MaterialX materials from AMD's library
New GPUOpen MaterialX library provides free PBR materials in the new open format for look dev data.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
Download AMD's free USD Hydra plugin for Blender
Now officially shipping: new plugin lets users import, compose and render USD scenes in Blender.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
Master cinematic production techniques in Unreal Engine
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create game cinematic's using UE4's Sequencer.
Monday, December 20th, 2021
Download the new free Unreal Live Link for Maya
Free tool for streaming animation between Maya and UE4 now supports facial blendshape data.
Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for Houdini Update 2
Update to the Houdini edition of the renderer extends V-Ray for Solaris, improves the hair material.
Saturday, December 11th, 2021
e-on software ships Vue and PlantFactory 2021.2
Digital nature tools get new Omniverse connector, support for Redshift and RenderMan materials.
Friday, December 10th, 2021
Autodesk ships Maya 2022.3
Latest version of Maya adds new options for retargeting facial animation. Bifrost, USD, Substance and Arnold plugins all updated.
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021