Omniverse Audio2Face now supports Reallusion characters
Nvidia's free app now automatically lip syncs Character Creator head meshes to dialog in any language.
Saturday, August 7th, 2021
Unreal Engine
Ragdoll Dynamics adds real-time physics to your Maya rigs
Neat new plugin adds realistic dynamics to machines, muscles, cloth and hair in the Maya viewport.
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021
Maxon, Tangent Animation join Academy Software Foundation
Cinema 4D and LoUPE developers become members of industry body to promote open-source VFX tech.
Monday, August 2nd, 2021
Nekki ships Cascadeur 2021.2
Unusual physics-based animation software gets a new Graph Editor, new tools for tweening character poses, and new spline IK system.
Thursday, July 29th, 2021
Eye candy: Epic Games' new UE4 in-camera VFX demo
Check out this three-minute short with environments rendered in real time inside Unreal Engine 4.27.
Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
Unity Technologies acquires SpeedTree developer IDV
Buyout to 'deepen integration' of IDV's tree-authoring technology with Unity, starting in Unity 2021.2.
Friday, July 23rd, 2021
Epic Games buys Sketchfab
Unreal Engine dev acquires the leading 3D model portfolio service and library of AR-ready content. Fees cut on the Sketchfab store.
Thursday, July 22nd, 2021
OptiTrack ships Motive 3.0
In beta: optical mocap software's new 'Quantum Solver' can track 10 actors simultaneously. See all of its new features and new pricing.
Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
Marmoset ships Toolbag 4.03
Big free update to the real-time rendering and look dev tool adds neat texturing and lighting features, RTX-accelerated render denoising.
Thursday, July 8th, 2021
Take-Two Interactive Software acquires Dynamixyz
Dynamixyz's facial mocap tech now available exclusively to Take-Two's own studios like Rockstar Games.
Monday, July 5th, 2021
Master environment design for virtual production in UE4
Discover Unreal Engine workflows for The Mandalorian-style virtual production with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.
Tuesday, June 29th, 2021
AMD unveils Viewport Boost
Interesting new driver feature raises viewport frame rate in apps like 3ds Max and Twinmotion when running on AMD's latest pro GPUs.
Saturday, June 19th, 2021
Anastasiy ships MagicTints 2.1
One-click colour-matching app for concept art work and image-to-LUT tool now available as standalone software for Windows and macOS.
Wednesday, June 16th, 2021