3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 6.5
Photogrammetry app gets integration with Unity's ArtEngine texture-processing tool, new Orthophoto Editor, USD export.
Thursday, March 10th, 2022
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Blender 3.1 ships
Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D software, from faster renders in Cycles to new procedural modelling nodes.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
Download free virtual reality 3D sketching app Open Brush
Create concept art and VR assets using this promising open-source successor to Google's Tilt Brush.
Thursday, February 24th, 2022
Get Disney's new USD version of Moana's Motunui Island
Download the new USD version of the legendary production data set, optimised to render in RenderMan.
Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
IDV ships SpeedTree 9.0
Tree-generation software for VFX and games gets freehand editing mode, new tools for integrating 3D scans, and new pricing model.
Monday, January 17th, 2022
Omniverse Audio2Face now generates facial blendshapes
Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio can now create sets of facial shapes for export in USD format.
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
Nvidia launches Omniverse: still free to individual artists
Real-time collaboration platform for 3D design and content creation now out of beta. Check out all of its latest features here.
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
Download AMD's free USD Hydra plugin for Blender
Now officially shipping: new plugin lets users import, compose and render USD scenes in Blender.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
Foundry ships Katana 5.0
Lighting and look dev software gets new Nuke Bridge for live linking to Nuke comps, updates to the Hydra Viewer and Foresight+ rendering.
Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
See Facebook Reality Labs' work on Cycles in Blender
New Alembic procedural speeds up viewport rendering of animation caches by up to 12x in Blender 3.0.
Monday, December 13th, 2021
Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for Houdini Update 2
Update to the Houdini edition of the renderer extends V-Ray for Solaris, improves the hair material.
Saturday, December 11th, 2021
e-on software ships Vue and PlantFactory 2021.2
Digital nature tools get new Omniverse connector, support for Redshift and RenderMan materials.
Friday, December 10th, 2021
Isotropix releases Angie in early access
Clarisse's much-anticipated hybrid CPU/GPU renderer available via early access builds of Clarisse 5.5.
Thursday, December 9th, 2021