Check out real-time hair creation tool Fiber Shop 2
Interesting standalone app authors fibre- or card-based hair for use in game engines and real-time apps.
Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
new features
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Unreal Update 1
Plugin for importing V-Ray scenes into Unreal Engine gets support for render relighting, skeletal meshes.
Monday, January 31st, 2022
ToolChefs ships AtomsUnreal 3.0 in beta
Unreal Engine plugin for the Atoms Crowd simulation system gets support for runtime variation and 'XPU animation'.
Friday, January 28th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.2
Material authoring tool gets new Physical Size system for scanned materials, new Cloth Weave filter.
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
GraphN lets you create custom tools for Maya and Unreal
Updated: New visual programming system for Maya and Unreal Engine now free for non-commercial use.
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
Trimble ships SketchUp 2022
Architectural modelling app gets improved curve drawing, new search and tagging features, native support for Apple's M1 processors.
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
Download the release candidate of TopoGun 3
Long-awaited update to the pioneering standalone retopology tool inches closer to a final release.
Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
See the 2022 Blender development roadmap
Blender Institute names its four main development targets for the open-source 3D software in 2022.
Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
Basefount ships Animcraft 2
Unusual app for building reusable animation libraries gets nonlinear motion editing and new facial rigging and animation toolsets.
Saturday, January 15th, 2022
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2022.1
Real-time visualisation tool gets new GPU path tracer, HDRI skydomes, support for point clouds.
Thursday, January 13th, 2022
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
LuxCoreRender 2.6 and BlendLuxCore 2.6 ship
Open-source renderer and its Blender plugin get support for OpenColorIO 2. Parsing of mesh lights '3x faster'.
Tuesday, January 4th, 2022