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
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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
Red9 releases major update to Red9 ProPack for Maya
Suite of rig management and character animation tools brings AAA workflows to indie artists.
Monday, July 4th, 2022
Maxon releases Redshift for AMD in public beta
Once Nvidia-only GPU renderer now supports AMD gaming and workstation GPUs on Windows as well as macOS.
Monday, June 27th, 2022
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.4 for Blender and Maya
Free physically based renderer gets new Atmosphere and Fog system, shadow override controls.
Thursday, June 9th, 2022
Blender 3.2 ships
Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D app, from the new 3D painting tools to Light Groups and fast shadow caustics.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
AMD releases USD Hydra plugin for Blender 1.1
Free plugin for composing and rendering USD scenes in Blender can now export animated USD files.
Friday, June 3rd, 2022