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Ephere ships Ornatrix C4D 1.0
New Cinema 4D edition of the popular hair, fur and feather simulation plugin works with both Arnold and Redshift out of the box.
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Sketchfab’s models of the month: December 2019
See the month's best real-time 3D models on Sketchfab, including these League of Legends skins.
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Wacom launches $400 Wacom One pen display
Cheapest Wacom pen display yet connects to your Android phone as well as Windows and Mac PCs.
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RandomControl updates Maverick Indie and Studio
Build 417 of the GPU renderers adds support for glTF files, ZBrush Polypaint data, Sketchfab importer.
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Download free terrain editing software TerreSculptor 2.0
Neat 'open use' tool exports 3D terrains or heightmaps to DCC tools and game engines, at up to 65K resolution.
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Foundry releases Katana 3.5
Lighting and look dev tool gets new Monitor Layer displaying ray traced renders in the viewport, plus 2-30x speed boost on multi-core CPUs.
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Get animation tool TAFA free
Veteran morph-based facial animation tool available as a free download. The UI shows its age, but many users still swear by it.
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The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2019
Watch the best tech breakdowns of 2019, as determined by 120,000 CG Channel Facebook followers.
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Check out open-source 3D painting tool ArmorPaint
Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.
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Get free USDZ file converter and viewer Reality Converter
Check out Apple's new app for converting 3D models in OBJ and glTF format to USDZ, along with free alternatives for Windows and Linux users.
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Check out lightweight project management tool Tape 1.3
Aeriform's 'simple, elegant and intimate' $5 app is a streamlined way to manage personal projects.
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Get promising free low-poly 3D modeling tool Dust3D
Neat ultra-lightweight tool creates low-poly games assets, complete with automated character rigs.
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Shoot and edit better video reference for animation
See Method Studios' Sarah Arduini set out her character animation workflow in Gnomon's new tutorial.
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Get neat free ZBrush texturing plugin ZBrush Compositor
Texture and light ZBrush sculpts in Substance Painter or Marmoset Toolbag without setting up UVs.
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Adobe wins tech Emmy Award for Character Animator
Real-time 2D animation app wins Technology & Engineering award for innovations affecting television.
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Check out lightweight PBR material organiser Ptolemee
See 3D previews of your PBR texture sets with this $5 app. Now out on macOS as well as Windows.
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Download 800+ free 3D LUTs
Get photography collective Q-DDL's free 3D LUTs for color grading or applying film looks to video or rendered images. Commercial use.
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Check out Coiffure, a neat Maya add-on for real-time hair
TD Florian Croquet's tool converts Maya XGen hair to hair cards for use in games and real-time apps.
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Alexey Vanzhula releases Modeler 1.0 for Houdini
Versatile hard-surface modelling toolkit brings workflow in Houdini more in line with other DCC tools.
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iClone Unreal Live Link now free to indie users
Reallusion makes plugin originally priced at $1,490 free to artists earning less than $100,000/year.
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