Blender Studio releases Watchtower
New free web-based production tracking tool provides a visual overview of a movie or animation.
Tuesday, February 1st, 2022
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5 industry stories you may have missed in January 2022
See news of Autodesk's latest acquisition, Blender's latest backer, and a free glossary of virtual production terms.
Tuesday, February 1st, 2022
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Unreal Update 1
Plugin for importing V-Ray scenes into Unreal Engine gets support for render relighting, skeletal meshes.
Monday, January 31st, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.2
Material authoring tool gets new Physical Size system for scanned materials, new Cloth Weave filter.
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
GraphN lets you create custom tools for Maya and Unreal
Updated: New visual programming system for Maya and Unreal Engine now free for non-commercial use.
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
Unity acquires Ziva Dynamics
Buyout of leading character rigging and simulation tools developer strengthens Unity's portfolio of digital human and creature tech.
Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
Download 32 free mocap moves and 4 rigged characters
Get free rigged 3D characters and mocap moves from Reallusion's ActorCore library. FBX format, for commercial use.
Monday, January 24th, 2022
Discover how to create an FX production shot in Houdini
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create a horror movie effect from start to finish.
Saturday, January 22nd, 2022
Chaos discontinues V-Ray for Modo and Katana
Sales of the Modo and Katana editions of the renderer have ended, but support continues until December 2022.
Friday, January 21st, 2022
5 steps to creating convincing photorealistic 3D portraits
Discover how to model, texture and light ultra-realistic 3D characters with tips from leading CG artists.
Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
See the 2022 Blender development roadmap
Blender Institute names its four main development targets for the open-source 3D software in 2022.
Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
IDV ships SpeedTree 9.0
Tree-generation software for VFX and games gets freehand editing mode, new tools for integrating 3D scans, and new pricing model.
Monday, January 17th, 2022
Basefount ships Animcraft 2
Unusual app for building reusable animation libraries gets nonlinear motion editing and new facial rigging and animation toolsets.
Saturday, January 15th, 2022