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Omniverse Machinima gets new Audio2Gesture system
Free app for creating animation for game cinematics now generates body movements from speech.
Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2023.1
3D design and animation software gets new smoke and fire simulation system and native Redshift camera.
Topaz Labs ships Video AI 3.0
Ever use Gigapixel AI to upscale your 3D renders? Check out its newly revamped AI-based sibling app for upresing video to up to 8K.
Master elephant anatomy for creature design
Learn how to draw elephants - real, prehistoric and fictional - with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorials.
Serif ships Affinity Photo 2.0
New features in the low-cost image editing and digital painting software include a neat option to edit the lighting in normal maps.
Nvidia releases Omniverse Create 2022.3 in beta
Major update to Omniverse's scene layout app adds new physics features and support for MaterialX.
Nvidia open-sources PhysX 5
Download the source code for the latest version of the real-time physics SDK, along with smoke and fire simulation system Flow 2.0.
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.5 for Blender
Free GPU renderer gets new bevel shader, better interactive rendering. New Maya and Houdini versions also available.
cebas releases finalFluid 1.0 for 3ds Max
GPU-accelerated simulation tool uses a sparse grid solver to create smoke, fire and dust in real time.
Unity merges with app monetisation firm ironSource
Game engine developer expects the $4.4 billion share-only deal to 'transform' its own financial profile.
Blender Foundation unveils Blender Apps
Custom versions of the open-source 3D software could be used as VFX and game pipeline tools.
Quixel ships Mixer 2022.1
Free material-authoring app gets opacity and emissive map support. Release 'may be one of the final updates' to Mixer in its current form.
Pablo Dobarro releases CozyBlanket 2.0
Easy-to-use iPad retopology app now also supports UV unwrapping, UV packing and texture baking.
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.6
Landscape generation software can now export clouds to other DCC apps in OpenVDB format.
Womp lets you create 3D models in your web browser
Appealing new service lets you create 3D models for concept design or 3D printing via a real-time Boolean workflow.
Tutorial: Sculpting the Human Skull in ZBrush
Create an anatomically accurate skull with The Gnomon Workshop's new introductory ZBrush tutorial.
Download Unity’s updated free Digital Human Package
Free library of technologies for creating photorealistic humans in Unity updated with features from the Enemies demo.
Luxion ships KeyShot 11.3
Check out the latest features in the rendering and technical animation software, and the changes to the separate KeyShot Web Viewer.
Autodesk releases USD for 3ds Max 0.3
Third beta of the plugin adds a USD Stage Object for referencing entire USD scenes inside 3ds Max.
Chaos releases Chaos Player Update 1
Image sequence viewer gets new Contacts Sheet system for viewing render elements and shot variants.
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