Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2025.2
3D modeling and animation software gets support for SVG files and a new Flow Retopology plugin for cloud-based workflow.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
visual effects
Check out the new ML Deformer in Maya 2025.2
Latest update to the 3D software adds machine-learning-based tool to create fast approximations of complex character rigs.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
Shapelab 2024 is now free to students worldwide
Studying at a school or college? Grab a free perpetual license of the desktop and VR sculpting software, normally priced at $69.99.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
Zibra AI unveils ZibraVDB
Now officially released: new AI tech compresses offline smoke and fire sims "up to 100x" for rendering in real time in Unreal Engine 5.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
Autodesk launches Flow Generative Scheduling
AI tech helps VFX and animation studios generate variant schedules for projects to assess the impact of deadline and staffing changes.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
NVIDIA unveils fVDB
New deep learning framework built on OpenVDB is intended to enable developers and researchers to build city-scale generative AI models.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
Boris FX releases Mocha Pro 2024.5
Sizeable update to the tracking app extends the new 3D tracking toolset, and adds Alembic export and direct export to After Effects.
Monday, July 29th, 2024
The making of the VFX for Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Discover how Ingenuity Studios created a six-mile CG river and complex smoke and fire simulations for Kevin Costner's epic Western.
Friday, July 26th, 2024
Group test: AMD Radeon Pro W7000 Series workstation GPUs
Discover which of AMD's professional GPUs is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests.
Thursday, July 25th, 2024
Free tool: P4Houdini builds version control into Houdini
Now available free, technical artist Paul Ambrosiussen's P4Houdini plugin integrates Houdini with Perforce's version control tech.
Thursday, July 25th, 2024
Free tool: Character Creator Auto Setup for 3ds Max
Reallusion's free add-on readies characters exported from Character Creator and iClone for rendering in 3ds Max with Arnold or V-Ray.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2024
Basefount releases Animcraft 5.0
Unusual tool for creating software-agnostic animation libraries gets new AI-based markerless full-body motion-capture system
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
GeoGen is now in public beta
JangaFX's real-time terrain design tool is out of alpha. Check out the new features in GeoGen 0.3, like spline editing of terrain.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024