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Tools to watch in Fall 2024: Meshcapade Me
Try this browser-based tool for generating animated 3D avatars from video footage, photos or real-world measurements. Free in beta.
Tools to watch in Fall 2024: Style3D Atelier and Simulator
Check out this promising new 3D clothing design tool for VFX and game development, and its Unreal Engine cloth simulation plugin.
Tools to watch in Fall 2024: SwitchLight Studio
Promising AI-based virtual projection app extracts actors from video and relights them to match a new background. Try it free in beta.
Tools to watch in Fall 2024: Metatailor
Eye-catching app makes it easy to dress 3D characters, auto-fitting 'any 3D wearable' to any bipedal avatar. See what's due in the 2.0 update.
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Download 25 free mocap moves from the Heat online library
Get free walks, runs, jumps and idle animations for use in games and motion graphics. Integrates with Blender, Daz Studio, Unity and UE5.
Advanced Compositing: Keying & Creating 2.5D Projections
Master real-world production workflows in Nuke with The Gnomon Workshop's advanced tutorial in visual effects compositing.
Adobe releases After Effects 24.6
Check out the latest features in the compositing and motion graphics app, including new options for exporting files and managing fonts.
KeenTools releases FaceTracker for Blender free in beta
Intuitive add-on can generate an animated 3D reconstruction of an actor's head from video footage, for animation. VFX or motion graphics.
Sparseal releases Uniform 1.2
Check out the new features in the modeling, retopology and texturing iPad app, including the option to deform models in real time.
Check out the new features in Unigine 2.19
Game engine gets support for multi-bounce lighting, OpenXR, and USD export. Free for use on projects earning under $100,000/year.
Check out cloud-based 3D model optimization service RapidPipeline
Data-preparation service converts models between 3D formats, remeshes them or generates LODs. Integrates directly into Blender.
Download 25 free 3D models of classical sculptures
Get VFX artist Cristian Spagnuolo's free library of retopologized scans of real-world statues. OBJ format, 8K textures, for commercial use.
Google open-sources virtual reality modeling app Blocks
Intuitive tool for creating low-poly 3D models in virtual reality gets new lease of life as open-source app Open Blocks.
Open Brush 2.8 is available
Open-source app for creating 3D sketches and concept designs in virtual reality gets improved export to Blender and other 3D software.
5 key features for CG artists in Godot 4.3
Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source game engine, including updates to shader editing, animation and rendering.
Check out award-winning iOS virtual production tool Cyclops AR
iPad Simulcam app used on The Mandalorian and House of the Dragon is now available on the App Store to studios of all sizes.
DivineCut and DivinePrint simplify creating 3D clothes in Blender
Fast-evolving plugin and its new texturing extension create animation ready clothing for 3D characters via a fast, intuitive workflow.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.13
Check out the new features in the desktop and virtual reality modeling application, including this new light UI theme.
OpenUSD now supports Vulkan
Universal Scene Description's HgiVulkan backend is intended to make Vulkan a 'more compelling option' for tools developers.
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