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Tutorial: Designing & Creating a Creature Bust
Create a production-ready 3D creature with this new Gnomon Workshop tutorial from Wētā FX's Pascal Raimbault.
Physically Based lists PBR values for real-world materials
Need to recreate ketchup in your CG software? This free online database has the info you need.
Godot 3.5 ships
Check out the new features for CG artists in the open-source game engine, like the material overlay system and support for 3D text.
Free app Kiri Engine uses AI to edit noise from 3D scans
Rromising new AI-enhanced photogrammetry app is available for both Android and iOS phones.
Tutorial: Creating Stylized VFX in Unreal Engine 5
Create a game-ready magic attack using UE5's Niagara toolset with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.
KeenTools ships FaceBuilder 2022.2 for Blender and Nuke
Turn photos of actors into matching MetaHumans with the new version of the head-generation plugin.
Download Animal Logic’s free ALab USD production scene
Updated: ace USD test scene now has 300+ production-quality assets, including two rigged characters.
ASWF adopts OpenAssetIO and OpenFX
VFX industry body to oversee development of open standards for plugins and asset management.
Amazon makes AWS Thinkbox software available free
Deadline, Kratatoa and the other five former Thinkbox Software products are now free to download.
5 CG software updates you may have missed in July 2022
Check out the new features in tyFlow, Redshift, Enscape, Render Manager and ftrack Connect 2.0.
Otoy ships Sculptron 2022.1 in early access
Unusual GPU-based sculpting app gets new cloth sculpting system, plus tools for grooming hair and fur.
The Grove Release 11 is out
Check out the new features in F12's biologically accurate Blender-based tree generator, like the new Roots tool and breeze animation.
JangaFX releases GTV 2.0
Download the free, newly GPU-accelerated tool for browsing textures and sprite sheets, like those generated by EmberGen.
Download the free Modern Industrial Pack of 3D models
Kitbash industrial interiors with RenderCrate's set of over 400 modular parts. FBX format, for commercial use.
Enscape releases Enscape for Mac
Try the new macOS edition of the popular real-time architectural renderer. Initially for SketchUp only.
Check out cutting-edge renderer Mitsuba 3
As well as standard forward rendering, the research-oriented tool can generate 3D objects matching 2D images.
Boonar Studio releases AAA Clouds and Cloud Mixer
New add-on generates realistic 3D clouds inside Blender, customisable using the Geometry Nodes system.
Epic Games joins the Open 3D Foundation
Unreal Engine creator now a board member of the governing body for rival game engine Open 3D Engine.
Material Maker 1.0 is out
Hotly tipped open-source material authoring and 3D texture painting app gets its milestone 1.0 release. Check out all of its new features.
Sneak peek: Sculptron’s crazy new cloth sculpting tools
Check out the eye-catching cloth brush and wrinkle deformer due in the GPU-based sculpting app.
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