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Try three new generative AI add-ons for Unity
Free add-ons Polyhive, Leonardo.ai and Layer AI generate PBR textures and sprites inside the Unity Editor.
Adobe’s Firefly AI art toolset: everything you need to know
Updated: set of experimental AI art tools now accepts text prompts in over 100 worldwide languages.
Infinigen: a free generator for procedural 3D environments
Intriguing Blender-based tool can automatically generate 3D terrain, plants - and even rigged creatures.
Check out Goo Engine: Blender for 3D anime
Interesting fork of the open-source 3D software adds animation and rendering features for anime artists.
Computerinsel releases PhotoLine 24
Check out the new features in the sub-$100 image editing software, including better layer workflow.
Chaos releases Phoenix 5.2
Check out the new features in the 3ds Max and Maya fluid simulator, including new options for directing liquids. Sims now 'up to 20%' faster.
Chaos acquires AXYZ design
V-Ray and Corona developer buys the creator of architectural crowd animation tool anima and the metropoly range of 3D characters.
Move.ai introduces monthly pricing
Promising new AI-based mocap service now available via monthly as well as annual subscriptions.
Wonder Studio is available
Hotly tipped AI tool for automatically replacing live actors with 3D characters from Blender or Maya is now out of closed beta.
Get 250+ free modular assets for building medieval cities
Download Meshingun Studio's The Bazaar Unreal Engine asset pack. 4K textures, for commercial use.
Tutorial: Large-Scale Water FX in Houdini
Master production-scale fluid simulation with ILM artist Miguel Perez Senent's detailed tutorial.
Otoy joins the Academy Software Foundation
OctaneRender developer joins VFX and movie industry body alongside CoreWeave and Bolt Graphics.
Godot 4.1 ships
Check out the new features for CG artists in the open-source game engine, including improved particle turbulence and volumetric fog.
Discover 5 key features for CG artists in Unity 2023.1
Discover the key features in the new stable version of Unity, including better water, hair, skin and lens flares.
F12 releases The Grove 2.0 for Blender and Houdini
Big update makes the popular 3D tree-generation tool available to Houdini as well as Blender users.
Insydium ships Fused 2023.3
Major update to the Cinema 4D plugins includes new versions of X-Particles, NeXus, plant generator Taiao and terrain tool TerraformFX.
Autograph 2023.6 is available
USD-based motion design and VFX software gets new tools to apply textures to deforming surfaces, for digital makeup and logo work.
Watch the new demo video of JangaFX’s LiquiGen
See footage of a pre-alpha build of EmberGen creator's hotly tipped upcoming real-time liquid simulator.
Intel releases Open Image Denoise 2
Popular open-source render denoiser now runs on AMD, Intel and Nvidia GPUs as well as CPUs.
Tutorial: VFX for Games
Discover how to create real-time fantasy effects with Houdini and Unreal Engine in The Gnomon Workshop's introductory tutorial.
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