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Get Sharan Vaswani’s free Populate Toolset for Houdini
ReDefine FX supervisor's free tool helps users art direct instances of simulation caches like explosions.
Move.ai now works with Android phones and webcams
Promising AI-based markerless mocap system now works on video from any device, not just iPhones.
Stability AI launches Stable Diffusion Reimagine
Online AI art tool creates variations of a source image, for quickly exploring looks and compositions.
Sketchfab’s models of the month: March 2023
See the month's best 3D models, from anime astronouts to free 3D plants, weapons and environments
Nvidia’s free Canvas app now generates 360° 4K EXRs
Free AI art tool turns your sketches into environment maps for use in game engines and DCC apps.
Light Engine releases Light Tracer Render 2.6
Check out the new features in the physically based GPU renderer. You can use it for free in a web browser.
DreamWorks open-sources its MoonRay renderer
Now available: ray tracing renderer used on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has been released under an Apache 2.0 licence.
JangaFX ships EmberGen 1.0
Check out the new features in the first production release of the hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulator for games and VFX work.
Act-3D ships Lumion 2023.0
Major update to the visualisation tool adds support for real-time ray tracing on AMD and Nvidia GPUs. Now available subscription-only.
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.1
Free GPU renderer gets support for new bevel shader, better viewport rendering, support for light linking.
Free NeRF toolset Nerfstudio now supports 360° video
Reconstruct 3D scenes matching 360-degree video and export to DCC apps as PLY or OBJ files.
Download 50 free 3D scanned trees and rocks
Download Maelstrom Studios' MAE Oak Forest asset pack for Unreal Engine for free during March 2023.
KeenTools ships GeoTracker for After Effects 2023.1
Intuitive real-time 3D tracking plugin for After Effects gets built-in head model for facial tracking.
Tutorial: Designing a Custom Kitbash Library
Create concept designs for mechs from kits of 3D parts with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
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.
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