Free NeRF toolset Nerfstudio now supports 360° video
Reconstruct 3D scenes matching 360-degree video and export to DCC apps as PLY or OBJ files.
Monday, March 13th, 2023
visual effects
KeenTools ships GeoTracker for After Effects 2023.1
Intuitive real-time 3D tracking plugin for After Effects gets built-in head model for facial tracking.
Wednesday, March 8th, 2023
Baguette: a powerful free nodal rigging system for Maya
Get Nims Bun's ultra-flexible rigging framework, used in production at Pixomondo, and now available free.
Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
Review: Asus ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED laptop
Find out how this Nvidia Studio laptop fares in real-world tests with 3ds Max, Blender, Maya and UE5.
Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
Unity releases Ziva VFX 2.1
Popular Maya tissue simulation plugin gets improved collision detection, plus new tissue stifness and simulation damping controls.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 7.0
Check out the new features in the photogrammetry tool, including the removal of the source image limit in low-cost edition 3DF Zephyr Lite.
Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
Move.ai releases its AI-based mocap app for iOS
Promising new app aims to capture production-quality mocap for games and VFX on 2-6 iPhones.
Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
Check out the new Blender 4.x release schedule
Open-source 3D software to move to three releases per year to ease pressure on developers and TDs.
Monday, February 27th, 2023
Reallusion ships iClone 8.2 + iClone Unreal Live Link 1.2
Check out the new features in the real-time animation software and its live link plugin for Unreal Engine.
Friday, February 24th, 2023
Reallusion releases Character Creator 4.2
Character-creation tool gets long-awaited dynamic wrinkle system, better MetaHuman compatibility.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
Free tool: export_masks for Substance 3D Painter
Get Wes McDermott's handy free add-on for... well, exporting layer masks from Substance 3D Painter.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
SideFX releases Houdini for Apple Silicon
New build of the procedural 3D software with native support for Apple's M1 and M2 chips is now production-ready.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
Foundry unveils big changes to Modo development
3D modelling app gets expanded dev team, new release schedule. mPath renderer 'put aside for now'.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023