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Check out the latest features in the open-source Maya character rigging and animation framework and its new Unreal Engine bridge.

Wednesday, May 21st, 2025

3D web developer Dan Greenheck's browser-based tool generates stylized 3D and 2D trees for games, online and illustration work.

Monday, April 28th, 2025

Check out the new features in the modular, open-source, hardware-agnostic framework for developing real-time rendering technology.

Saturday, March 8th, 2025

Discover five key new features in the open-source game engine, including updates to shading, lighting, animation and physics.

Tuesday, March 4th, 2025

Free, open-source online tool for viewing and editing 3DGS data can now add camera animations to existing scans.

Monday, February 17th, 2025

Free, open-source online tool for viewing and editing 3D Gaussian Splats can now play back sequences of PLY files.

Thursday, January 9th, 2025

Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source game engine, including updates to shader editing, animation and rendering.

Friday, August 16th, 2024

Neat open-source tool lets you crop and clean up 3DGS scan data in a standard web browser. Source code is available under an MIT license.

Monday, August 12th, 2024

Get Sentient Art's detailed free Unreal Engine 5 sci-fi interior environment, including over 150 free 3D models. For commercial use.

Friday, March 15th, 2024

New open-source generative AI model can create a textured 3D mesh from a single source image in under a second.

Friday, March 8th, 2024

Much-praised Ragdoll Dynamics physics system, used by top VFX and games studios, is now available for Blender as well as Maya.

Friday, March 1st, 2024

Experimental tech lets NVIDIA-only apps, including RealityCapture and Arnold, run unmodified on AMD GPUs. Check out our FAQs on it.

Friday, February 16th, 2024

VFX and visualization artist Scott Rafferty's open-source plugin gives UE5 a single unified interface to browse, edit and apply materials.

Sunday, January 21st, 2024