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Master lighting CG portraits with Gnomon’s new tutorial
Discover how to recreate real-world studio lighting set-ups to render compelling character art.
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Autodesk unveils 3ds Max 2020.2
Autodesk has unveiled 3ds Max 2020.2, the next update to its 3D modelling and animation software, adding a new SketchUp importer and new display options for the viewport background. The release also...
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Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.14 for 3ds Max and Blender
Tool for converting 3D scenes into web apps now exports interactive parametric models to your browser.
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Unity 2019.3 ships in beta
Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs.
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Foundry releases Katana 3.2
Lighting and look dev tool gets new material node graph system; better hair shading and multi-camera rendering in its 3Delight renderer.
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Crytek releases CryEngine 5.6
Game engine gets support for area lights and multilayer microfacet materials, new ragdoll IK system and updates to cloth simulation.
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Foundry discontinues Mischief
Users of the digital sketching app have until 31 December to obtain a permanent activation key or retrieve files from the old website.
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Adobe ships Substance Designer 2019.2
Material authoring software gets new set of tools for creating photo-based and synthetic HDR maps.
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Discover how the VFX of The Umbrella Academy were created
See VFX supervisor Everett Burrell reveal how the cult sci-fi series was created at a free event at Gnomon next week. Watch free online.
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Sketchfab’s models of the month: August 2019
See the month's best real-time 3D models, from magical character art to the British city of Birmingham.
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Maxon ships Cinema 4D R21
Release scraps the four lower-end editions of the software and introduces new subscription plans. See all of the new features here.
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BorisFX unveils Mocha Pro, Sapphire and Continuum 2020
Sapphire to get OpenColorIO support. Mocha Pro also gets neat tool for extracting clean plates from moving footage.
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e-on software will not revive Cornucopia3D
Online asset store will officially not be resurrected following the cyber attack in 2017 that took it offline.
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RandomControl launches Maverick Indie
New half-price edition of spectral GPU renderer Maverick Studio is aimed at DCC work, not CAD users.
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Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23
Game engine gets eagerly anticipated Chaos destruction physics toolset, new virtual production tools.
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Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.23
Unreal Engine-based real-time visualisation platform gets native support for Cinema 4D, IFC files.
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Download HitFilm Express 13.0 for free
Free editing, compositing and VFX software gets DCI 4K output, mask creation from the editing timeline.
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Download neat games art tool OwnIcon for free
SchmidtGames' Unreal Engine add-on turns 3D meshes into 2D icons. Get it free until 30 September 2019.
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Boris FX acquires Silhouette
Compositing effects plugin and planar tracking developer buys Academy Award-winning rotoscoping and roto paint tool.
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Download Toolchefs’ open-source Maya animation tools
Updated: get a new camera lattice deformer free as well as the harmonic deformer, soft IK solver and key reducer.
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