By

Maxon has announced Cinema 4D S24, the latest subscription-only release of Maxon’s 3D application. Headline features include: (more...)

Version 2.5 of LuxCoreRenderer has been released. The new version adds OptiX/RTX acceleration, non-uniform camera bokeh, new AOVs, randomised texture tiling and rotation, translation and scale. (more...)

Pilgway has announced a new beta of 3dCoat 2021. New features include (more...)

VR-Plugin for Maya allows artists to work with Maya in Virtual Reality. According to the developers, using the plugin users can access the full range of Maya features in Virtual Reality (more...)

Wysilab has announced the release of Instant Terra 2.1. This version adds the ability to use additional data sources in the world browser with promises of a resolution 50 times better than in version 2 (more...)

Epic Games has released the second volume of its field guide for virtual production. Find out more and download it for free on the Unreal blog. 

The Virtual Museums of Malopolska project's new website makes over 1000 scanned assets from its collections available to download via Sketchfab under a public domain license. Many of
the models have PBR textures and thanks to the Sketchfab plugin they can even be used directly in Unreal Engine. Find out more about the project on Sketchfab, see a list of the models,  or visit the museum's website. 

F12 has announced a new version of The Grove. its parametric tree modelling add-on for Blender. Features of version 10 include: (more...)

ILM has released a 7-minute featurette that explores Stagecraft 2.0, their virtual production tool used on The Mandalorian, season two. This version introduced Helios, a new cinematic render engine designed for real-time visual effects. Watch it on YouTube. 

Anastasiy has announced the release of MagicTints 2.0, the latest version of its machine learning plugin for Adobe applications that can transfer the colours from one image to another. Of particular interest to 3D artists in the new release is the ability to export a LUT in .cube or .png format that could be used in other 3rd party engines and renderers. Read more on Anastasiy's website.