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Color Intelligence releases Look Designer 2.6
Powerful plugin recreates the beauty of analogue film inside DaVinci Resolve and After Effects.
Check out SideFX’s Fast Remesh for Houdini
Neat free tool turns meshes into even triangles up to 25x faster than Houdini's standard Remesh node.
Adobe releases After Effects 22.6
Compositing software gets option to colour code keyframes to help keep animation projects organised.
RenderMan 25 to feature the AI denoiser used on Lightyear
Next big update to the renderer to feature Pixar's AI-trained denoiser on its release later on this year.
Tutorial: Unreal Engine 5 Lighting Fundamentals
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial sets out all of UE5's key lighting tools, from Lightmass to Lumen.
Check out open-source AI image upscaler Real-ESRGAN
Free image up-resing tool comes with dedicated AI models for photos, 2D illustrations and anime.
Luxion ships KeyVR 11.1
KeyShot-based software for setting up shared virtual reality design reviews gets Sketch tool for adding annotations to models inside VR.
Boris FX makes Particle Illusion 2022.5 available free
Free standalone edition of the particle generator can now emit particles from imported 3D models.
Adobe ships Photoshop 23.5
Image-editing software gets improved object masking, better 16-bit image previews, and a new neutral colour mode for the UI.
AI-based tool Kaedim turns concept art into 3D models
Promising browser-based service generates low-poly 3D models based on your 2D concept images.
Sketchfab’s models of the month: August 2022
See the month's best real-time 3D models, from piractical mishaps to a free scan of a Mad Max-style car.
Adobe releases Substance 3D add-on for Blender 0.91
See what's new in this major compatibility-breaking update to the Substance plugin for Blender.
Download Andrew Averkin’s free 3ds Max Assembly Tool
Amazing set of free tools and scripts adds brush- and physics-based set dressing to 3ds Max.
Download Autodesk’s free Maya 2023 Bonus Tools
Free Maya modelling and rigging add-ons now include ProSets, Mainframe North's procedural modelling tool.
Tutorial: Creating Cinematic Compositions for Production
Discover how to create arresting visual development images in The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Nvidia fully open-sources MDL
Open-source version of Material Definition Language to include the MDL Distiller and GLSL backend for real-time and viewport rendering.
Foundry ships Mari 5.0v4
3D texture painting app gets new teleport node system to remove visual clutter from the node graph. Perpetual licences now discontinued.
Ziva Dynamics launches Ziva Face Trainer
Cloud-based AI facial rigging service generates 'real-time faces' for use in Maya, Unity and UE4.
Autodesk open-sources RV
Updated: only "core components" of the award-winning image viewer and shot playback tool will be open-sourced, not the full product.
Watch Lion, Unity’s fur-raising new tech demo
Beautiful new demo shows millions of strands of CG hair, rendered in real time in 4K on a PlayStation 5.
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