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All of the Substance 3D tools are now free to students
Use Substance 3D Painter, Sampler, Designer, Stager and Modeler for free, including on portfolio material.
Google’s DreamFusion turns text into 3D models
Research paves the way for new AI art tools that generate 3D models based on your text descriptions.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 0.26
New free beta of the VR sculpting software adds stroke stabilisation and long-awaited stamp system.
Reallusion releases Character Creator 4.1
Character creation tool gets neat new auto-rigging system, new LOD creation and subdivision options.
Blender will no longer ditch the VFX Reference platform
Open-source 3D app to revert to supporting the industry standard after criticism from VFX artists.
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D
Check out the new features in this major update to the renderer, several unique to the C4D edition.
Wacom launches new Cintiq Pro 27 pen display
120Hz 27-inch Cintiq Pro is the 'fastest pen display in the industry', but performance comes at a price.
Autodesk Revit users to get Twinmotion for free
Part of the firm's new collaboration with Epic Games to break down barriers between their software.
Autodesk announces Flow
First product to be released on Autodesk's new 'industry cloud' for M&E work like VFX and game dev will 'focus on asset management'.
Free tools: Unreal Live Link 2.1 for Maya is out
Check out the new features in Autodesk and Epic Games' free plugins live-linking Maya and UE5.
Turn your desktop into a UE5 platformer with 3D scanning
[Sponsored] Discover how Android and iOS photogrammetry app KIRI Engine helps create indie games.
Eye candy: Chaos’s 2022 V-Ray showreels
See the best new VFX and arch viz work created with V-Ray, along with tech breakdowns of key projects.
iRender: a powerful render farm for Redshift
[Sponsored] Discover why iRender's flexible service provides total control over your cloud rendering pipeline.
Sneak peek: new GPU renderer U-Render for Maya
See the long-awaited Maya edition of the real-time renderer in action on a GeForce RTX 2080 GPU.
D5 Render is now free to students and teachers
New D5 Educational licence gives access to all features of the GPU renderer's paid D5 Pro edition.
Download 8 free cutout sitting people from VIShopper
Get free cutout people for use in CG and architectural visualization. PSD format, for commercial use.
Tutorial: Creating a Sci-Fi Hallway in Unreal Engine 5
Master best practices for texturing and shading in UE5 with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Blender Studio releases Flamenco 3
Set up a Blender render farm 'in five minutes' with the new version of the open-source render manager
Insydium releases NeXus
New GPU-accelerated particle, liquid and granular fluid simulation system for CInema 4D runs on AMD, Apple Silicon, Nvidia GPUs.
Nvidia unveils new GeForce RTX 4090 and 4080 GPUs
See how the first Ada Lovelace gaming GPUs' specs may translate into performance in DCC apps.
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