Free tool: Character Creator UE Control Rig for Unreal Engine
Free add-on lets users pose CC characters from Reallusion's Character Creator inside UE5 using the MetaHuman interface.
Thursday, May 30th, 2024
Unreal Engine
Tutorial: Creating Cinematics in Unreal Engine 5
Master current professional real-time workflows with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly guide to using UE5 in production.
Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
Autodesk buys Wonder Studio developer Wonder Dynamics
Maya developer snaps up the startup behind the much-discussed AI-based online VFX platform. Read our FAQs on the buyout.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
Check out the new features in Vue 2024 and PlantFactory 2024
Final versions of the now-discontinued digital nature tools are available free for commercial use. Discover their features here.
Friday, May 10th, 2024
Download new free standalone UV packing tool Packer-IO
New app makes the automated UV packing tech behind 3d-io's popular UV-Packer plugins available to users of any DCC software.
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
Download Vue, PlantFactory and PlantCatalog for free
E-on software's digital nature tools are now available as free perpetual licenses, but development has been discontinued. Read our FAQs here.
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
Unreal Engine 5.4: five key features for CG artists
Read our pick of the new features in UE5, from Motion Graphics Mode and modular character rigging to virtual production and VFX.
Monday, April 29th, 2024
CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 2024.0
Updated: check out the 3D clothing design software's new USD-based workflow for exporting simulations to Unreal Engine 5.4.
Monday, April 29th, 2024
RealityCapture is now free to indie artists and studios
Popular photogrammetry software is now free to users with revenue under $1 million/year. Check out the other changes in RealityCapture 1.4.
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
Twinmotion is now free to indie artists and studios
Real-time visualization tool is free for commercial use to anyone earning under $1 million/year. See what else is new in Twinmotion 2023.2.4.
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
Reallusion releases BuildingGen for iClone
New plugin generates procedural 3D buildings from modular parts, directly inside the real-time animation software.
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
Chaos unveils Project Arena
Upcoming virtual production toolset will let studios use existing V-Ray assets on LED walls with full ray tracing "without any preprocessing".
Friday, April 5th, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Connector
Open-source framework should help devs write plugins to send files between Substance 3D apps and tools like Blender and Maya.
Friday, April 5th, 2024