Maxon ships Cinema 4D 2023
3D software gets new soft body physics and symmetry modelling systems, OpenColorIO support. Updates are now subscription-only.
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022
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Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.4
Material authoring tool can now expose parameters to make the materials it creates editable in other DCC apps.
Tuesday, September 6th, 2022
Polygoniq ships botaniq Maya
Popular Blender library of ready-to-use 3D trees now also available for Maya. Includes controls to adjust tree colour and seasonal state.
Monday, September 5th, 2022
Check out promising browser-based AI mocap tool Plask
Neat tool extracts full body animation from video in FBX and BVH format. Now supports multi-person capture.
Saturday, September 3rd, 2022
Jens Kafitz releases Mari Extension Pack 5 R9
Check out the new features in this major update to the bonus tools for Foundry's 3D texture painting app.
Friday, September 2nd, 2022
Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2022.1 VS and RS
UV unwrapping tools get new planar UV projection mode, Python 3 scripting, Apple Silicon support.
Thursday, September 1st, 2022
Alexey Vanzhula releases Modeler 2023 for Houdini
Now shipping: check out the new features in the latest version of the modelling toolkit for Houdini.
Thursday, September 1st, 2022
Chaos ships V-Ray 6 for Maya
Check out the new features in the Maya edition of the renderer, from Enmesh geometry replication to support for USD volume shaders.
Wednesday, August 31st, 2022
Color Intelligence releases Look Designer 2.6
Powerful plugin recreates the beauty of analogue film inside DaVinci Resolve and After Effects.
Tuesday, August 30th, 2022
Adobe releases After Effects 22.6
Compositing software gets option to colour code keyframes to help keep animation projects organised.
Thursday, August 25th, 2022
RenderMan 25 to feature the AI denoiser used on Lightyear
Next big update to the renderer to feature Pixar's AI-trained denoiser on its release later on this year.
Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
Check out open-source AI image upscaler Real-ESRGAN
Free image up-resing tool comes with dedicated AI models for photos, 2D illustrations and anime.
Monday, August 22nd, 2022
Luxion ships KeyVR 11.1
KeyShot-based software for setting up shared virtual reality design reviews gets Sketch tool for adding annotations to models inside VR.
Saturday, August 20th, 2022