cgchannel
Baguette: a powerful free nodal rigging system for Maya
Get Nims Bun's ultra-flexible rigging framework, used in production at Pixomondo, and now available free.
Review: Asus ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED laptop
Find out how this Nvidia Studio laptop fares in real-world tests with 3ds Max, Blender, Maya and UE5.
Stability.ai releases its Stable Diffusion add-on for Blender
Stability for Blender puts the AI image generator into Blender - for animation as well as still images.
Download over 170 free 3D plants for Blender
Get BD3D's free asset pack The Plant Library, compatible with its Geo-Scatter tool. Commercial use.
Godot 4.0 ships
Discover five key features for CG artists in this major update to the open-source game engine, from Vulkan rendering to real-time GI.
Unity releases Ziva VFX 2.1
Popular Maya tissue simulation plugin gets improved collision detection, plus new tissue stifness and simulation damping controls.
Tutorial: Key Illustration Workflow for Film & TV
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals Framestore art director Philippe Gaulier's concept process.
3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 7.0
Check out the new features in the photogrammetry tool, including the removal of the source image limit in low-cost edition 3DF Zephyr Lite.
Move.ai releases its AI-based mocap app for iOS
Promising new app aims to capture production-quality mocap for games and VFX on 2-6 iPhones.
Trimble releases SketchUp for iPad 6.2
Check out all of the latest changes to the new iOS edition of the architectural modelling software.
Trimble releases SketchUp 2023.0
Check out the new features in the architectural modellling software, also often used for concept art.
Modif: a free AI-based mocap app for iOS and Android
Plask's new mobile app extracts full-body animation data from video captured on your phone or tablet.
Adobe ships Photoshop 24.2
Small workflow update to the image editing and digital painting software improves Share for review and the Object Selection tool.
Check out the new Blender 4.x release schedule
Open-source 3D software to move to three releases per year to ease pressure on developers and TDs.
Get 350+ free 3D props and 3D plants for Unreal Engine
Download packs of game-ready assets released free with Epic Games' Old West Learning Project.
Reallusion ships iClone 8.2 + iClone Unreal Live Link 1.2
Check out the new features in the real-time animation software and its live link plugin for Unreal Engine.
Reallusion releases Character Creator 4.2
Character-creation tool gets long-awaited dynamic wrinkle system, better MetaHuman compatibility.
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'.
Community for Entertainment Artists