Gnomon ships Introduction to Maya 2016
Maya expert Eric Keller's 11-hour tutorial provides a complete guide to the industry-standard 3D app.
Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
UV
Get Igor Grinchesku's 17 free UV checker maps
Bored of plain old black-and-white maps? Download 17 colourful free designs, in PNG and PSD formats.
Sunday, June 28th, 2015
Autodesk releases Meshmixer 2.9
Intuitive app for creating mashups of 3D models gets proper support for UV texture maps, new pivot tools.
Friday, May 1st, 2015
The Foundry announces Modo 901
Price of an individual licence up $300, but MeshFusion comes free. See the new modelling, UV and rendering tools here.
Wednesday, April 8th, 2015
Amplify Creations releases Multi-Tile UV Bake Tool
Inexpensive 3ds Max plugin speeds up the process of baking multi-tile textures for Mari, Mudbox or ZBrush.
Friday, January 16th, 2015
Videos: see the new features in Maya 2015
Major update adds new FX tools, new skinning system, lots of smaller features. See them all in action here.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
Gnomon unveils complete guide to look dev in Modo
Games veteran Andras Kavalecz's 3D Look Development in Modo explores asset creation from start to finish.
Friday, December 20th, 2013
Discover the new features of 3D-Coat 4.0
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
Marius Silaghi releases Subd Recovery
Need to rig or unwrap a model you got online? This $40 app will recover its original subdivision levels.
Friday, February 8th, 2013
Blender 2.62 adds better Booleans, motion tracking
Latest release of the open-source 3D package also adds multi-GPU support to the new Cycles renderer.
Friday, February 17th, 2012