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Substance 3D Designer to get new Hydra viewport
Change will let artists use apps like RenderMan or OctaneRender as viewport renderers inside Designer. Native MaterialX support also due.
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Convert 3D assets from over 50 common file formats, including Blender scene files. Runs securely offline using WebAssembly.
Musical Hallucinations | Hero Studios | Germán Di Ciccio
Download free Blender add-on Bystedt’s Blender Baker
Updated: Neat add-on streamlines baking PBR textures inside Blender. Now supports thickness maps.
About Love & Balance | Final Frontier x Le Cube
ArmorPaint 0.9 ships
Popular open-source 3D texture painting software gets a new Smudge tool, group masks, and better OBJ import.
Tutorial: Introduction to Ziva VFX – Volume 1 and 2
Volume 2 now available: master the Maya soft tissue simulation tool with The Gnomon Workshop's comprehensive two-part guide.
Visualising AI
Making AI more inclusive through imagery, by Google DeepMind.
MoGen generates animation cycles in your web browser
Promising AI-based online app generates a huge range of walk and run cycles for humanoid characters. Try it free in beta.
Maxon releases Cinebench 2024
Significant update reinstates GPU benchmarking to the popular free CG hardware benchmark.
Release Pilgway's 3DCoat 2023 - Improved Functionality and Performance
Unreal Engine 5.3: five key features for CG artists
Now out of preview: read our pick of the new features in UE5, from rendering OpenVDB files to the new Skeletal and Panel Cloth Editors.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.4
Big update to the digital sculpting app adds support for reference images while working in VR. Check out the other new features here.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.2
Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new AI-trained texture-generation and upscaling toolsets
Wildthings Studio
Discovering the Magic of Sustainable Animation in the Mountains of Argentina
Check out free browser-based AI mocap tool Rokoko Vision
Successor to Rokoko Video lets users extract full-body animation from video captured on two cameras or smartphones. Still free for single-camera capture.
Nickelodeon Global Rebrand 2023 | Roger
Eye candy: Chaos’s 2023 V-Ray VFX & Animation showreel
See the best new visual effects and motion graphics rendered with V-Ray - then check out technical breakdowns of the key projects.
Radical launches Radical Live
New AI-based service extracts multi-actor motion data from video in real time, and streams it to Blender, Maya, Unity or UE5.