Apple unveils the M1 Ultra
'Most powerful chip ever built for a personal computer' has a higher GPU compute performance than some Nvidia Ampere RTX cards.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
visual effects
ftrack ships ftrack Studio 4.10
Check out the new features in ftrack's cloud-based production tracking and shot review system for visual effects and animation work.
Thursday, March 3rd, 2022
Color Intelligence unveils Colourlab Ai 2.0
See what's new in this big update to the hotly tipped AI-based color grading tool, now in public beta.
Saturday, February 26th, 2022
CLO Virtual Fashion updates Marvelous Designer 11
New update to the 3D clothing design tool improves FBX export, adds support for UDIM file naming.
Friday, February 25th, 2022
See the new sculpting features due in Blender in 2022
3D painting directly in Sculpt mode and interactive previews in Eevee due in the open-source 3D app in the next few releases.
Monday, February 21st, 2022
Download 49 free snow textures from ActionVFX
Get stock snow images for use in VFX and matte painting. Pre-keyed 2K PNG files, for commercial use.
Sunday, February 20th, 2022
Discover how to create hi-res custom trees with SpeedTree
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create hero-quality assets with the tree authoring tool.
Sunday, February 20th, 2022
Get Disney's new USD version of Moana's Motunui Island
Download the new USD version of the legendary production data set, optimised to render in RenderMan.
Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
Maxon releases Universe 5.1
Under-the-hood update to the library of effects for compositing and editing apps adds native support for Apple's M1 processors.
Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
Download over 90 free 3D models from RenderCrate
Free assets include this modular kit of 3D parts for medieval castles. FBX format, 8K PBR textures, commercial use.
Sunday, February 13th, 2022
Download 2,600 free 2K sky images from MattePaint
Get 2,000 x 1,000px sky images to use in matte painting or as render backplates. For commercial use.
Sunday, February 13th, 2022
Get free Blender add-ons BlendArTrack & BlendArMocap
Try promising open-source add-ons for camera tracking and markerless facial, finger and body mocap.
Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
Blender Studio releases Watchtower
New free web-based production tracking tool provides a visual overview of a movie or animation.
Tuesday, February 1st, 2022