Magma adds new 'ethically responsible' AI art tools
Browser-based art platform's new AI Assistant is based on Stable Diffusion, but offers AI tagging and prompt tracking.
Monday, June 12th, 2023
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Sunday, June 11th, 2023
Autodesk ships Arnold 7.2.2
Update makes CPU renders on Intel, AMD and Apple CPUs perceptually identical, and edits to large scenes 'nearly instantaneous'.
Thursday, June 8th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 13.0
Material authoring app gets a new set of Spline and Path tools, but its procedural geometry toolset has been removed.
Wednesday, June 7th, 2023
Apple unveils 2023 Mac Pro
See how the first Apple Silicon Mac Pro workstation stacks up against old Intel models in After Effects, Maya, Houdini and Photoshop.
Tuesday, June 6th, 2023
Apple unveils the M2 Ultra
See how 'the world’s most powerful chip ever created for a personal computer' performs with CG apps like Maya, Octane and Photoshop.
Tuesday, June 6th, 2023
Esri ships CityEngine 2023
Check out the new features in the procedural 3D city generation software, including better terrain sculpting and section rendering.
Monday, June 5th, 2023
MxTools releases FormCutter 3.0 for 3ds Max
Interesting hard surface modelling add-on gets support for real-time cuts for quick shape exploration.
Thursday, June 1st, 2023
Get Reallusion's free ZBrush and Character Creator plugins
ZBrush Pose Tools creates a pose library in ZBrush; ZBrush Pose Link sends poses to it from Reallusion's Character Creator.
Tuesday, May 30th, 2023
Magic Nodes: node-based compositing in After Effects
Updated with details of version 1.5: neat add-on lets you wire nodes together to create composites.
Tuesday, May 30th, 2023
Rokoko Studio 2.4 now does retargeting
Rokoko's mocap software now lets users retarget motion to custom 3D characters. Subscription prices up.
Friday, May 26th, 2023
iToo Software releases RailClone 6 for 3ds Max
Check out the new features in the popular parametric modelling plugin and its built-in asset libraries.
Thursday, May 25th, 2023
CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 12.1
3D clothing design software gets USD import and export, plus experimental Omniverse connector.
Thursday, May 25th, 2023