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Adobe to raise price of Creative Cloud subscriptions
Cost of Creative Cloud subscriptions up 5-10% from November for many users. New pricing for Firefly, too. Check if it affects you in our FAQs.
Adobe unveils new ‘true 3D’ workspace in After Effects
Latest public beta lets users render 3D models directly inside the compositing software, using the new Advanced 3D renderer.
Get free After Effects plugin Crate’s Text Message Generator
ProductionCrate's free add-on generates strings of animated text messages for VFX and motion graphics work.
Adobe unveils new Substance 3D Connector
Open-source plugin architecture will let you send assets from the Substance 3D applications direct to Blender, 3ds Max and Maya.
Substance 3D Designer to get new Hydra viewport
Change will let artists use apps like RenderMan or OctaneRender as viewport renderers inside Designer. Native MaterialX support also due.
Convert 3D files for free in your browser with Convert 3D
Convert 3D assets from over 50 common file formats, including Blender scene files. Runs securely offline using WebAssembly.
Download free Blender add-on Bystedt’s Blender Baker
Updated: Neat add-on streamlines baking PBR textures inside Blender. Now supports thickness maps.
ArmorPaint 0.9 ships
Popular open-source 3D texture painting software gets a new Smudge tool, group masks, and better OBJ import.
Tutorial: Introduction to Ziva VFX – Volume 1 and 2
Volume 2 now available: master the Maya soft tissue simulation tool with The Gnomon Workshop's comprehensive two-part guide.
MoGen generates animation cycles in your web browser
Promising AI-based online app generates a huge range of walk and run cycles for humanoid characters. Try it free in beta.
Maxon releases Cinebench 2024
Significant update reinstates GPU benchmarking to the popular free CG hardware benchmark.
Unreal Engine 5.3: five key features for CG artists
Now out of preview: read our pick of the new features in UE5, from rendering OpenVDB files to the new Skeletal and Panel Cloth Editors.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.4
Big update to the digital sculpting app adds support for reference images while working in VR. Check out the other new features here.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.2
Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new AI-trained texture-generation and upscaling toolsets
Check out free browser-based AI mocap tool Rokoko Vision
Successor to Rokoko Video lets users extract full-body animation from video captured on two cameras or smartphones. Still free for single-camera capture.
Eye candy: Chaos’s 2023 V-Ray VFX & Animation showreel
See the best new visual effects and motion graphics rendered with V-Ray - then check out technical breakdowns of the key projects.
Radical launches Radical Live
New AI-based service extracts multi-actor motion data from video in real time, and streams it to Blender, Maya, Unity or UE5.
Luxion buys Digizuite
KeyShot developer aims to provide users with a 'full-service design solution' though its buyout of the digital asset management provider.
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Dimension 5 Techs launches D5 for Teams
New suite of collaboration features for users of D5 Render include simultaneous multi-user editing.
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