Sneak peek: Houdini 20
See the new features due in the next major version of Houdini, including updates to animation and simulation and the Karma renderer.
Thursday, October 19th, 2023
motion graphics
Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2024.1
Latest update to the 3D design and animation app is mainly a bugfix release, but there are performance improvements to MoGraph.
Thursday, October 19th, 2023
JangaFX ships EmberGen 1.0.7
Popular real-time smoke and fire simulator gets support for ground plane shadows, and initial support for importing skinned meshes.
Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
Reallusion ships ZBrush Face Tools
New plugin makes it easier to refine head meshes from Character Creator in ZBrush, including sculpting custom expressions.
Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
Foundry releases Nuke 15.0, NukeX 15.0, Nuke Studio 15.0
Check out the new features in the compositing and editorial software, including native Apple Silicon and OpenAssetIO support.
Friday, October 13th, 2023
Sneak peek: Adobe's Project Scene Change
Interesting experimental AI tech composites an actor from one shot into the environment from another without roto or 3D tracking.
Thursday, October 12th, 2023
Adobe's Project Fast Fill brings Firefly's Generative Fill to video
Experimental automatic object-replacement system is an 'early look' at how generative AI could be used in tools like After Effects.
Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
DeepMotion launches DeepMotion Animate 3D 5.0
Big update to the browser-based AI mocap system makes it possible to capture up to eight characters from a single video.
Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
Adobe ships After Effects 24.0
Check out the new features in the compositing software, including the AI-powered Next-Gen Roto Brush and expanded OCIO support.
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
Autodesk ships Arnold 7.2.4
Check out the latest changes to renderer, including better toon shading and faster rendering of mesh lights.
Thursday, October 5th, 2023
Autodesk adds MaterialX support to USD for 3ds Max 0.5
Update to the USD integration plugin makes it possible to author, import or export MaterialX materials from 3ds Max.
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
Rig and showcase 3D characters for free with AccuRig 1.3
Reallusion's free auto-rigging tool now also generates animated previews of your 3D characters to share with clients or collaborators.
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
See the new ZBrush features from ZBrush Summit 2023
Check out the upcoming features in the digital sculpting software, including a neat new Replay system, and integrated Cinema 4D noises.
Monday, October 2nd, 2023