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LightWave Digital acquires LightWave
New owners aim to transform the veteran 3D animation tool back into a 'state of the art 3D package'.
Check out Maxon’s gorgeous 2023 Cinema 4D demo reel
With 70 projects in three minutes, this might be the most eye candy ever crammed into a single reel.
Silhouette 2023 gets new generative AI art tools
Sizeable update to the rotoscoping app also adds new film grain nodes and the Primatte chroma keyer.
Boris FX releases Mocha Pro 2023
Planar tracking app gets updates to roto, tracking and rendering to streamline work on complex shots.
Download Alex Senechal’s free 10K studio HDRIs
Get 10,000 x 5,000px HDRIs mimicking real-world studio lighting set-ups in HDR and EXR format.
Isotropix has discontinued Clarisse
Updated: Emails sent to users say that sales and development of the layout & look dev tool have ended.
MaterialX 1.38.7 adds graph editor, native Metal support
Check out the changes to the open standard for materials and look dev data, widely used in VFX software.
5 expert tips to bring appeal to your facial animation
Disney animator Chatrasal Singh reveals his tips to improve the facial poses of your 3D characters.
Tutorial: Create a Waterwheel Simulation in Houdini
Master procedural modeling and fluid simulation with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.
Download free 3D resources from Substance 3D Assets
Updated: get the latest set of free assets, including leaf and plant materials in .sbsar and .sbs format.
Tutorial: master dynamic illustration techniques
Create compelling art in ZBrush, Photoshop and Painter with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
What’s hot in iRender for Redshift and OctaneRender
[Sponsored] Find out how the online render farm's 6 x RTX 4090 servers speed up GPU renders.
Free tool: HeliumX Lite for After Effects
New free tool creates animated 3D text and page turn effects inside Adobe's compositing software.
Sketchfab’s models of the month: April 2023
See the month's best 3D models, including free downloadable interior scenes, props and cars.
Download the free edition of RenderMan 25
Free edition of the renderer is licensed for personal use and tools development. Now includes RenderMan XPU.
Pixar releases RenderMan 25
Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.
Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 2304
3D tracking app gets new options for solving shots with anamorphic distance and with focus breathing.
Boris FX releases Sapphire 2023.5
Check out the new features in the suite of effects plugins for compositing and editing software.
Nvidia releases new $599 GeForce RTX 4070 GPU
See how the lowest-priced Ada Lovelace GPU to date performs in graphics tools like Omniverse.
Free Blender tool Braidify turns curves into hair braids
Free add-on lets you generate hair braids simply by drawing freehand curves in the Blender viewport.
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