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Amazing set of free tools and scripts adds brush- and physics-based set dressing to 3ds Max.

Monday, August 15th, 2022

Free Maya modelling and rigging add-ons now include ProSets, Mainframe North's procedural modelling tool.

Monday, August 15th, 2022

Open-source version of Material Definition Language to include the MDL Distiller and GLSL backend for real-time and viewport rendering.

Friday, August 12th, 2022

3D texture painting app gets new teleport node system to remove visual clutter from the node graph. Perpetual licences now discontinued.

Friday, August 12th, 2022

Cloud-based AI facial rigging service generates 'real-time faces' for use in Maya, Unity and UE4.

Thursday, August 11th, 2022

Updated: only "core components" of the award-winning image viewer and shot playback tool will be open-sourced, not the full product.

Thursday, August 11th, 2022

Beautiful new demo shows millions of strands of CG hair, rendered in real time in 4K on a PlayStation 5.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022

Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio now reflects emotions like joy and pain.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022

Nvidia's new AI art demo turns sketches into 360° environment maps for use inside 3D software.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022

'Next evolution' of OpenVDB brings the power of AI to volumetric data, reducing the memory footprint of fluid simulations by up to 100x.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022

Photoshop plugin for mixing colours like physical paints gets new Multimix mode with support for four simultaneous mixing fields.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022

Godot 3.5 ships

Check out the new features for CG artists in the open-source game engine, like the material overlay system and support for 3D text.

Monday, August 8th, 2022

Promising new AI-enhanced photogrammetry app is available for both Android and iOS phones.

Sunday, August 7th, 2022