Blender 3.3 LTS ships
See our pick of the 5 key new features in the open-source 3D software, from new hair grooming tools to better planar tracking.
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022
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Maxon ships Cinema 4D 2023
3D software gets new soft body physics and symmetry modelling systems, OpenColorIO support. Updates are now subscription-only.
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.4
Material authoring tool can now expose parameters to make the materials it creates editable in other DCC apps.
Tuesday, September 6th, 2022
Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2022.1 VS and RS
UV unwrapping tools get new planar UV projection mode, Python 3 scripting, Apple Silicon support.
Thursday, September 1st, 2022
Chaos ships V-Ray 6 for Maya
Check out the new features in the Maya edition of the renderer, from Enmesh geometry replication to support for USD volume shaders.
Wednesday, August 31st, 2022
Tutorial: Unreal Engine 5 Lighting Fundamentals
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial sets out all of UE5's key lighting tools, from Lightmass to Lumen.
Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D add-on for Blender 0.91
See what's new in this major compatibility-breaking update to the Substance plugin for Blender.
Tuesday, August 16th, 2022
Nvidia unveils NeuralVDB
'Next evolution' of OpenVDB brings the power of AI to volumetric data, reducing the memory footprint of fluid simulations by up to 100x.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
Physically Based lists PBR values for real-world materials
Need to recreate ketchup in your CG software? This free online database has the info you need.
Monday, August 8th, 2022
Chaos releases Chaos Vantage 1.8
Check out the new features in the real-time tool for exploring V-Ray scenes, like the new cloud system.
Monday, July 18th, 2022
Get free AI-based frame interpolation tool Flowframes
NMKD Software's neat tool retimes video - but you can also use it speed up 3D animation workflow.
Saturday, July 16th, 2022
Download BtoA: the free Arnold plugin for Blender
Community-made plugin lets you render Blender animations, VFX and visualisations in Autodesk's Arnold renderer.
Friday, July 15th, 2022
This neat free plugin lets you import OpenVDBs into UE5
Eidos-Montréal's UnrealVDB lets users view VDB files inside Unreal Engine and render them with its path tracer.
Wednesday, July 13th, 2022