Get the free 'mesh to MetaHuman' plugin for Unreal Engine
New Epic Games plugin turns facial scans and sculpts into next-gen MetaHuman characters for use in Maya or UE5.
Friday, June 10th, 2022
visualization
Blender 3.2 ships
Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D app, from the new 3D painting tools to Light Groups and fast shadow caustics.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 8.1
Texture painting app gets support for ICC colour profiles, physical size in materials, new texture bakers.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.3.1
Latest update to the material authoring software adds native support for Apple's M1 processors.
Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
AMD releases USD Hydra plugin for Blender 1.1
Free plugin for composing and rendering USD scenes in Blender can now export animated USD files.
Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Open 3D Foundation releases Open 3D Engine 22.05
Open-source game engine gets new animation synthesis system, 'remixable materials', updates to the Atom renderer.
Friday, May 13th, 2022
Check out promising browser-based renderer Colorful
New tool creates photorealistic visualisations in your web browser. You can try the public beta for free.
Thursday, May 5th, 2022
Marmoset ships Toolbag 4.04
Real-time rendering toolkit gets physically accurate DoF, lens flares and motion blur. GPU ray tracing now supported on AMD hardware.
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
U-Render releases U-Render 2022.4 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer gets new non-photorealistic rendering toolset, SSGI and multi-materials.
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5
Major update to the GPU renderer adds support for CPU and hybrid rendering. Support for AMD GPUs on Windows and Linux to come.
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Xenon Drop 4.2
Update makes new Omniverse connection plugin available to all users of the lighting design tool.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 5.0
Milestone update to the game engine is now officially available, Check out its key features here.
Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
Master creature modelling with ZBrush and Marmoset Toolbag
Create this ultra-realistic 3D mantis with Eric Keller's detailed new tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.
Sunday, April 3rd, 2022