Wonder Studio is available
Updated: hotly tipped AI tool for automatically replacing live actors with 3D characters can now export scenes in USD format.
Tuesday, July 11th, 2023
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Autograph 2023.6 is available
USD-based motion design and VFX software gets new tools to apply textures to deforming surfaces, for digital makeup and logo work.
Tuesday, July 4th, 2023
Glaze protects artists' images from 'unethical AI models'
Version 1.0 now available: free 'cloaking' tool makes it harder for AI models to learn from artists' online images.
Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
Polycam gets new AI-based 360 Capture system
Mobile 3D scanning app's new mode captures 360° environments on phones without 360° cameras.
Friday, June 2nd, 2023
Adobe ships Photoshop 24.5
Image-editing app gets AI-based Remove Tool. Separate beta adds Generative Fill - the first feature from Adobe's Firefly AI toolset.
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023
Boris FX releases free edition of Particle Illusion 2023
Free standalone edition of the GPU accelerated particle generator gets new 3D and fluid dynamics options.
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
Download the free edition of RenderMan 25.2
Free edition of the renderer is licensed for personal use and tools development. Now includes RenderMan XPU.
Tuesday, April 18th, 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
Left Angle launches Autograph Creator
Indie artists and small studios get new lower-cost edition of the next-gen motion design and VFX tool.
Monday, March 27th, 2023
Stability.ai releases its Stable Diffusion add-on for Blender
Stability for Blender puts the AI image generator into Blender - for animation as well as still images.
Monday, March 6th, 2023
SideFX releases Houdini for Apple Silicon
New build of the procedural 3D software with native support for Apple's M1 and M2 chips is now production-ready.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
These free AI add-ons create PBR materials inside Blender
Use Dream Textures, DeepBump and DT2DB Bridge to create PBR materials in Blender 'in one click'
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
Autodesk releases Open RV
The open-source edition of RV is out. See how it differs from the commercial edition of the Academy Award-winning shot review tool.
Thursday, January 19th, 2023