Continuum 2023.5 ships
Check up the new features in the popular suite of effects plugins, including a sizeable update to particle generator Particle Illusion.
Tuesday, June 13th, 2023
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Tutorial: Automating Animation & Game-Ready Rigs
Create your own modular rigging system in Python with The Gnomon Workshop's advanced tutorial.
Monday, June 12th, 2023
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
Download 14 free destruction FX clips from ProductionCrate
Add debris to VFX and motion graphics projects with these HD stock effects. For commercial use.
Sunday, June 11th, 2023
Free tool Grassify adds grass to Blender models
Add fast-rendering animatable grass to any Blender model with this free Geometry Nodes set-up.
Friday, June 9th, 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
iToo Software releases Forest Pack 8.2.2 for 3ds Max
Check out the new features in the popular object scattering tool, including updates to ForestSets.
Monday, June 5th, 2023
Polycam gets new AI-based 360 Capture system
Mobile 3D scanning app's new mode captures 360° environments on phones without 360° cameras.
Friday, June 2nd, 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