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Free tool: export_masks for Substance 3D Painter
Get Wes McDermott's handy free add-on for... well, exporting layer masks from Substance 3D Painter.
SideFX releases Houdini for Apple Silicon
New build of the procedural 3D software with native support for Apple's M1 and M2 chips is now production-ready.
Foundry unveils big changes to Modo development
3D modelling app gets expanded dev team, new release schedule. mPath renderer 'put aside for now'.
Foundry stops development of Colorway
Dev team for Foundry's tool for visualising variants of product designs now assigned to Modo.
Foundry ships Modo 16.1
Check out the new features in the 3D modelling and rendering software, including interesting new workflows for applying decals.
Sketchfab introduces NoAI and CreatedWithAI tags
Online 3D model site to change its rules to stop use of NoAI-tagged content in training AI art tools.
AMD releases FSR 2.2
Open-source render upscaling tech for games and DCC apps now supports temporal upscaling. See what's new in the latest update.
Free tool: Mohsen Tabasi’s StableDiffusion_Houdini 2.0
Use Stable Diffusion to turn simple 3D scenes in Houdini into detailed concept images and illustrations.
Tutorial: Creating Environment Concept Art for Games
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create concept art matching real-world constraints.
Sketchfab’s models of the month: February 2023
See the month's best 3D models, from painterly environments to badass Borderlands characters.
Check out promising free SDF modelling tool Clavicula
Unusual free tool provides a quick way to rough out ideas for props, concept art or product designs.
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max Update 1
Check out the new features in this wide-ranging update to the renderer, including USD export.
Free tool: Hextile for Houdini and Unreal Engine
Mohsen Tabasi's award-winning free tool minimises visible repeats by tiling textures using a hex grid.
Download free After Effects image export script aeJPG
Handy free tool lets you take screenshots from After Effects' Composition Panel in one click.
Download the entire city of New York in 3D for free
Download any part of Geopipe's 3D reconstruction of NYC in standard 3D formats. For commercial use.
Download free architectural textures from Texturama.com
Get up to 10 lightweight, AR-ready textures, including bulding facades, free from the newly revamped online library.
Project Dogwaffle team ships Howler 2023.5
Low-cost digital painting app gets interesting option to render out 3D models to use as custom brushes.
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.13
Update makes Intel's OIDN denoiser and Cinema 4D's Brick and Tile shaders available to all of the renderer's host applications.
These free AI add-ons create PBR materials inside Blender
Use Dream Textures, DeepBump and DT2DB Bridge to create PBR materials in Blender 'in one click'
Adobe releases After Effects 23.2
Compositing app gets support for OCIO and ACES colour managment for VFX and movie editing projects.
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