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
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Reallusion backs the Blender Development Fund
New tools to improve workflow between Blender and iClone and Character Creator due this year.
Thursday, January 6th, 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
5 tools updates you may have missed in December 2021
Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.
Monday, January 3rd, 2022
5 industry stories you may have missed in December 2021
Including end of life for Meshmixer and the 3ds Max Asset Library, and unified licences for Chaos Phoenix.
Friday, December 31st, 2021
Best Black Friday and winter 2021 discounts for CG artists
Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
Download AMD's free USD Hydra plugin for Blender
Now officially shipping: new plugin lets users import, compose and render USD scenes in Blender.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
Escape Motions releases Rebelle 5
Updated: Natural media painting app gets new $19.99 Rebelle 5 Personal edition for portfolio work.
Monday, December 20th, 2021
iToo Software releases RailClone 5 for 3ds Max
Parametric modelling plugin gets new banking controls for splines; can now distribute lights and VDBs.
Friday, December 17th, 2021
Download the free Moves by Maxon iOS mocap app
Update: free app can now create 3D scans of objects in Cinema 4D, as well as capturing mocap data.
Thursday, December 16th, 2021
Download the new free Unreal Live Link for Maya
Free tool for streaming animation between Maya and UE4 now supports facial blendshape data.
Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
Download the new free edition of Auto Character Setup
Updated: cut-down edition of popular auto-rigging system ACS2 now also works with Modo Indie.
Sunday, December 12th, 2021