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JangaFX ships EmberGen 1.0
Check out the new features in the first production release of the hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulator for games and VFX work.
Act-3D ships Lumion 2023.0
Major update to the visualisation tool adds support for real-time ray tracing on AMD and Nvidia GPUs. Now available subscription-only.
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.1
Free GPU renderer gets support for new bevel shader, better viewport rendering, support for light linking.
Free NeRF toolset Nerfstudio now supports 360° video
Reconstruct 3D scenes matching 360-degree video and export to DCC apps as PLY or OBJ files.
Download 50 free 3D scanned trees and rocks
Download Maelstrom Studios' MAE Oak Forest asset pack for Unreal Engine for free during March 2023.
KeenTools ships GeoTracker for After Effects 2023.1
Intuitive real-time 3D tracking plugin for After Effects gets built-in head model for facial tracking.
Tutorial: Designing a Custom Kitbash Library
Create concept designs for mechs from kits of 3D parts with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Baguette: a powerful free nodal rigging system for Maya
Get Nims Bun's ultra-flexible rigging framework, used in production at Pixomondo, and now available free.
Review: Asus ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED laptop
Find out how this Nvidia Studio laptop fares in real-world tests with 3ds Max, Blender, Maya and UE5.
Stability.ai releases its Stable Diffusion add-on for Blender
Stability for Blender puts the AI image generator into Blender - for animation as well as still images.
Download over 170 free 3D plants for Blender
Get BD3D's free asset pack The Plant Library, compatible with its Geo-Scatter tool. Commercial use.
Godot 4.0 ships
Discover five key features for CG artists in this major update to the open-source game engine, from Vulkan rendering to real-time GI.
Unity releases Ziva VFX 2.1
Popular Maya tissue simulation plugin gets improved collision detection, plus new tissue stifness and simulation damping controls.
Tutorial: Key Illustration Workflow for Film & TV
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals Framestore art director Philippe Gaulier's concept process.
3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 7.0
Check out the new features in the photogrammetry tool, including the removal of the source image limit in low-cost edition 3DF Zephyr Lite.
Move.ai releases its AI-based mocap app for iOS
Promising new app aims to capture production-quality mocap for games and VFX on 2-6 iPhones.
Trimble releases SketchUp for iPad 6.2
Check out all of the latest changes to the new iOS edition of the architectural modelling software.
Trimble releases SketchUp 2023.0
Check out the new features in the architectural modellling software, also often used for concept art.
Modif: a free AI-based mocap app for iOS and Android
Plask's new mobile app extracts full-body animation data from video captured on your phone or tablet.
Adobe ships Photoshop 24.2
Small workflow update to the image editing and digital painting software improves Share for review and the Object Selection tool.
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