Nvidia fully open-sources MDL
Open-source version of Material Definition Language to include the MDL Distiller and GLSL backend for real-time and viewport rendering.
Friday, August 12th, 2022
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Autodesk open-sources RV
Updated: only "core components" of the award-winning image viewer and shot playback tool will be open-sourced, not the full product.
Thursday, August 11th, 2022
Nvidia announces plan to 'evolve USD beyond VFX'
Check out its roadmap for growing USD beyond the movie industry to become the 'foundation of the open metaverse'.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
Physically Based lists PBR values for real-world materials
Need to recreate ketchup in your CG software? This free online database has the info you need.
Monday, August 8th, 2022
Godot 3.5 ships
Check out the new features for CG artists in the open-source game engine, like the material overlay system and support for 3D text.
Monday, August 8th, 2022
Download Animal Logic's free ALab USD production scene
Updated: ace USD test scene now has 300+ production-quality assets, including two rigged characters.
Friday, August 5th, 2022
Check out cutting-edge renderer Mitsuba 3
As well as standard forward rendering, the research-oriented tool can generate 3D objects matching 2D images.
Tuesday, July 26th, 2022
Epic Games joins the Open 3D Foundation
Unreal Engine creator now a board member of the governing body for rival game engine Open 3D Engine.
Monday, July 25th, 2022
Material Maker 1.0 is out
Hotly tipped open-source material authoring and 3D texture painting app gets its milestone 1.0 release. Check out all of its new features.
Sunday, July 24th, 2022
Get free AI-based frame interpolation tool Flowframes
NMKD Software's neat tool retimes video - but you can also use it speed up 3D animation workflow.
Saturday, July 16th, 2022
Download BtoA: the free Arnold plugin for Blender
Community-made plugin lets you render Blender animations, VFX and visualisations in Autodesk's Arnold renderer.
Friday, July 15th, 2022
This neat free plugin lets you import OpenVDBs into UE5
Eidos-Montréal's UnrealVDB lets users view VDB files inside Unreal Engine and render them with its path tracer.
Wednesday, July 13th, 2022
Preview: Blender's new hair tools and viewport compositor
Check out the curve-based hair system due in Blender 3.3, and the upcoming real-time compositor.
Monday, July 11th, 2022