Creating a Character Bust: From Ideation to Final Render
Create a portfolio-worthy 3D character with Naughty Dog Senior Character Artist Colleen Larson's tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.
Sunday, October 20th, 2024
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Download the free project files for the Unity 6 Time Ghost demo
Grab the files for the lead character and environment from the beautiful real-time demo for the new graphics and simulation features in Unity 6.
Friday, October 18th, 2024
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2025.3
3D modeling and animation app gets support for the OpenPBR material standard, and performance updates to key modifiers.
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
Autodesk releases Maya 2025.3
Update to the 3D animation tool reworks Boolean modeling, and introduces OpenPBR support and interesting new simulation features.
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
Inkscape 1.4 is out
Open-source vector design tool gets improvements to workflow with filters, fonts and color palettes, and support for Affinity Designer files.
Tuesday, October 15th, 2024
Adobe releases After Effects 25.0
Compositing software gets 'more modern', legible interface design, and 'decluttered' 3D model import. See all of the changes here.
Monday, October 14th, 2024
Adobe releases Photoshop 26.0
Image-editing software gets new AI object removal and generative AI features, plus native support for OpenColorIO and ACES.
Monday, October 14th, 2024
Download Poly Haven's free Namaqualand 3D scan library
Get over 30 free 3D scans of desert plants, rocks and ground materials in Blender, FBX and USD format, and 10 16K HDRIs. CC0 license.
Sunday, October 13th, 2024
DeepMotion rolls out AI text-to-animation service SayMotion 2.4
Browser-based text-to-animation generative AI tool can now be used to create seamless animation cycles, and to retarget animation.
Saturday, October 12th, 2024
MetaTailor 2.0 is out
Check out the new features in the promising tool for fitting 3D clothing to humanoid avatars, including a new real-time cloth physics system.
Thursday, October 3rd, 2024
Shapelab 2024 lets you sculpt on desktop as well as in VR
Updated: the new desktop mode in Leopoly's promising digital sculpting app now supports stylus as well as mouse and keyboard.
Thursday, October 3rd, 2024
Free Nuke plugin pScatter 'breaks up your perfect CG renders'
Handy add-on uses position data to add imperfections to renders from 3D applications like Blender, Houdini and Maya within Nuke.
Sunday, September 29th, 2024
Check out Blender 4.3's new SLIM UV unwrapping system
Try the 'state-of-the-art' new iterative UV unwrapping algorithm available in alpha builds of the open-source 3D software.
Wednesday, September 25th, 2024