Epic Games releases MetaHuman Animator
Hotly tipped toolset can transfer facial motion from iPhone footage to a MetaHuman in Unreal Engine.
Thursday, June 15th, 2023
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Autodesk ships Arnold 7.2.2
Update makes CPU renders on Intel, AMD and Apple CPUs perceptually identical, and edits to large scenes 'nearly instantaneous'.
Thursday, June 8th, 2023
iToo Software releases Forest Pack 8.2.2 for 3ds Max
Check out the new features in the popular object scattering tool, including updates to ForestSets.
Monday, June 5th, 2023
Get Reallusion's free ZBrush and Character Creator plugins
ZBrush Pose Tools creates a pose library in ZBrush; ZBrush Pose Link sends poses to it from Reallusion's Character Creator.
Tuesday, May 30th, 2023
Magic Nodes: node-based compositing in After Effects
Updated with details of version 1.5: neat add-on lets you wire nodes together to create composites.
Tuesday, May 30th, 2023
iToo Software releases RailClone 6 for 3ds Max
Check out the new features in the popular parametric modelling plugin and its built-in asset libraries.
Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Autodesk ships Bifrost for Maya 2.7.1
Maya multiphysics plugin gets better voxel smoothing, volume rendering, Component Tag support.
Monday, May 15th, 2023
Get 370+ free custom ZBrush brushes from XMD Source
Check out the latest brushes in this growing online library of assets for Maxon's digital sculpting software.
Sunday, May 14th, 2023
Cycles is coming to Modo
3D modelling software to integrate the physically based GPU renderer used in Blender via new Foundry-supported plugin Cycles4Modo.
Saturday, May 13th, 2023
Free tool: Stable Houdini puts Stable Diffusion in Houdini
Use generative AI inside Houdini to create matte paintings or concept art based on simple 3D scenes.
Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 8
Real-time lighting app gets neat new Scrim Light type mimicking real-world studio lighting set-ups.
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
Get Antoine Bagattini's free Blender add-on BagaPie V10
Popular modifier gets new tool to package your Geometry Nodes set-ups into custom Blender add-ons.
Saturday, April 29th, 2023
Pixar releases RenderMan 25
Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023