CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 2024.1
3D clothing design app gets new PBR texture map generator, plus experimental new generative AI tools for patterns and graphics.
Tuesday, June 18th, 2024
visual effects
Tutorial: Creating a Quadruped Rig for Production
Discover how to create production-quality rigs for four-legged creatures in The Gnomon Workshop's Maya masterclass.
Saturday, June 15th, 2024
Foundry releases Nuke 15.1, NukeX 15.1 and Nuke Studio 15.1
Compositing and editorial applications get new 3D 'Time Ops' features, and updates to BlinkScript, OpenAssetIO and the AI tools.
Friday, June 14th, 2024
Sneak peek: Houdini 20.5
See all the key features in the next major update to Houdini, from modeling, animation and simulation to the COPERNICUS framework.
Friday, June 14th, 2024
Get over 500 free game-ready animations to use in Unreal Engine
Epic Games' new Game Animation Sample includes a library of 'AAA-quality' motion-captured animations for use in your own projects.
Wednesday, June 12th, 2024
Get 10 popular Blender add-ons free from Blender Market
Updated: online marketplace's 10th birthday giveaway has now ended, but you can still see the add-ons it featured on the offer page.
Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
Reallusion launches GoZ Plus
New version of the plugin for round-tripping assets between Character Creator and ZBrush now transfers surface color and detail.
Friday, June 7th, 2024
Sneak peek: Vector Displacement Maps in Substance 3D Painter
Get a glimpse at some of the new features in development for the 3D texture painting software, from Substance 3D Painter 10.1 onwards.
Friday, June 7th, 2024
See Mojo FX's VFX breakdown for Testament: The Story of Moses
Discover how the VFX studio created over 560 miraculous effects shots for the Netflix chart-topping religous minseries.
Friday, June 7th, 2024
Free tool: paint textures in Blender with HAS Paint Layers
Check out games artist Vlad Hirourk's streamlined new Blender add-on for Substance-style layer-based texture painting.
Thursday, June 6th, 2024
Maxon launches Maxon Studio
New After Effects template engine lets users of Maxon's Red Giant products create motion graphics by customizing readymade 'Capsules'.
Thursday, June 6th, 2024
Golaem releases crowd animation tool Golaem 9
Major update to the Maya crowds tool adds new workflows for creating shots without simulation, and a new UE5-style ML Deformer.
Thursday, June 6th, 2024
ASWF, Adobe, Autodesk launch OpenPBR 1.0
New open shading model intended to supersede both Adobe and Autodesk's standard materials reaches its milestone 1.0 release.
Wednesday, June 5th, 2024