Check out the new ML Deformer in Maya 2025.2
Latest update to the 3D software adds machine-learning-based tool to create fast approximations of complex character rigs.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
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Shapelab 2024 is now free to students worldwide
Studying at a school or college? Grab a free perpetual license of the desktop and VR sculpting software, normally priced at $69.99.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
Zibra AI unveils ZibraVDB
Now officially released: new AI tech compresses offline smoke and fire sims "up to 100x" for rendering in real time in Unreal Engine 5.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
Autodesk launches Flow Generative Scheduling
AI tech helps VFX and animation studios generate variant schedules for projects to assess the impact of deadline and staffing changes.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
Boris FX releases Mocha Pro 2024.5
Sizeable update to the tracking app extends the new 3D tracking toolset, and adds Alembic export and direct export to After Effects.
Monday, July 29th, 2024
3D scanning app Kiri Engine 3.9 now auto-rigs your 3D models
iOS and Android scanning app now generates character rigs for the 3D models it generates. There are updates to the free edition, too.
Monday, July 29th, 2024
Bleank releases Black Ink 2023.6
Unusual GPU-accelerated node-based digital painting app gets new radial symmetry system for creating complex mandala-like patterns.
Friday, July 26th, 2024
Free tool: P4Houdini builds version control into Houdini
Now available free, technical artist Paul Ambrosiussen's P4Houdini plugin integrates Houdini with Perforce's version control tech.
Thursday, July 25th, 2024
Free tool: Character Creator Auto Setup for 3ds Max
Reallusion's free add-on readies characters exported from Character Creator and iClone for rendering in 3ds Max with Arnold or V-Ray.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2024
Adobe rolls out Generate Image in Photoshop 25.11
New text-to-image generative AI feature reaches the stable release of Photoshop. Check out the other new features in Photoshop 25.11 here.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2024
Basefount releases Animcraft 5.0
Unusual tool for creating software-agnostic animation libraries gets new AI-based markerless full-body motion-capture system
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
GeoGen is now in public beta
JangaFX's real-time terrain design tool is out of alpha. Check out the new features in GeoGen 0.3, like spline editing of terrain.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
LiquiGen is now available to buy
JangaFX's real-time liquid simulator is now in public alpha. Check out the new features in LiquiGen 0.3, like whitewater and surface tension.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024