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Updated: Get this photorealistic female head based on scan data. Now rigged and ready to animate.

Wednesday, November 1st, 2017

Open-source character generator gets new figure posing and facial expression systems, new skin textures, and proper FBX export.

Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

Cool work-in-progress Maya plugin promises complete automatic character setup, including muscles and facial coding.

Tuesday, January 13th, 2015

Pilgway posts nice new video tour of its voxel sculpting package. But still no word on when 4.0 is out of beta.

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

New blog devoted to good modelling practices fills the gap left by the late, great Subdivisionmodeling.com.

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

See the key features in the game engine and real-time renderer, from better 3D water to Variable Rate Shading and Deferred+ rendering.

Friday, April 25th, 2025

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including nifty new Select Details options in the AI-based Object Selection tool.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Update to the renderer adds over 3,100 Chaos Scans materials to the Cosmos library, and improves DoF and volumetric effects.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Get JustB Studios' 1850s Post Office Environment pack of 3D assets for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace. For commercial use.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025