Faceware Studio gets indie pricing, free Unreal live link
Changes cut cost of the facial mocap system for indie artists streaming to Unreal Engine by over $3,000/year.
Wednesday, November 17th, 2021
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Master storyboarding techniques for films and games
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial from Riot Games' Rembert Montald sets out pro storyboard workflows.
Monday, November 15th, 2021
Get five new free ZBrush brush sets from XMD Source
Download custom ZBrush IMM brushes for sculpting hair, clothing and machinery. Commercial use.
Sunday, November 14th, 2021
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Maya Update 2
Renderer gets new decal system, support for USD lights, access to the Chaos Cosmos asset library.
Friday, November 12th, 2021
Esri ships CityEngine 2021.1
3D city generation software gets new terrain sculpting tools, IFC import and export, and better import of OpenStreetMap data.
Thursday, November 11th, 2021
Unity acquires Weta Digital for $1.6 billion
Firm aims to put Weta's legendary in-house VFX tools 'into the hands of millions of artists' worldwide.
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
See Nvidia's new Omniverse plugins, apps and pricing
See the latest features in the real-time collaboration platform, and prices for Omniverse Enterprise.
Tuesday, November 9th, 2021
Get started with Houdini's Pyro FX toolset
New two-part Gnomon Workshop tutorial provides a detailed guide to Houdini smoke and fire simulations.
Saturday, November 6th, 2021
Golaem ships Golaem 8.0
Major update to the Maya crowd simulation software lets users interact with Golaem simulations inside Unreal Engine in real time.
Thursday, November 4th, 2021
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2021.1
GPU production renderer gets new USD importer, Boolean clipping material, volumetric light linking.
Friday, October 29th, 2021
Check out the Blender 3.x product roadmap
See the key changes planned for the open-source 3D software from Blender 3.0 to Blender 3.7 in 2023.
Thursday, October 28th, 2021
Adobe ships After Effects 22.0
Compositing software gets long-awaited Multi-Frame Rendering system, new performance profiling tools, update to Cinema 4D Lite.
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
SideFX releases Houdini 19
Check out the key tools in this big update to the procedural 3D app: from muscles, multiphysics and Pyro simulations to Karma XPU.
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021