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Substance material

Latest version of Maya adds new options for retargeting facial animation. Bifrost, USD, Substance and Arnold plugins all updated.

Wednesday, December 8th, 2021

Open source plugin now converts Substances to RenderMan's new Lama materials, for use in Blender, Houdini or Maya.

Wednesday, August 4th, 2021

Software giant's Gold sponsorship provides €30,000/year to help develop the open-source 3D app.

Thursday, July 22nd, 2021

Check out our list of CG tools that can - or soon will - harness the Snapdragon processors in Copilot+ PCs, from Affinity Photo to ZBrush.

Tuesday, October 21st, 2025

Long-awaited update integrates the popular suite of sketch-based retopology tools directly into Edit Mode. See the other changes.

Tuesday, October 21st, 2025

Latest release of the open-source game engine is mainly a bugfix update, but it lays the groundwork for changes to the Material Pipeline.

Monday, October 20th, 2025

Check out nxExplosiaFX, the new smoke and fire simulation tool in Insydium's GPU-based particle effects add-on for Cinema 4D.

Friday, October 17th, 2025

Check out the specs for the fifth-gen Apple Silicon processor, and how it performs in CG apps like Blender and DaVinci Resolve.

Thursday, October 16th, 2025

See our pick of the features in the next version of Unreal Engine, from the new procedural plant editor to updates to MetaHumans.

Thursday, October 16th, 2025