Adobe has released a short tutorial explaining the theory and practice of creating metallic anisotropy effects using Substance tools. Watch it on YouTube. 

Isak Waltin has announced the release of Procedural Building Generator 2 for Blender. PBG 2 is a Geometry Nodes-based tool that generates buildings based on a base mesh, with the ability to edit them in real-time. The tool is designed to be user-friendly, allowing users to create custom buildings by simply dragging and dropping presets onto objects and then editing the building shape using the regular tools of Blender. (more...)

Blackmagic Design has released the stable versions of DaVinci Resolve 18.5 and Fusion Studio 18.5. (more...)

Poliigon has announced 103 free assets including several of its most popular textures, models and HDRIs. The collection includes furniture, food, fabric, brick, wood, marble and more. Assets are natively compatible with Blender, 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D and Sketchup. See the free assets and download form Polligon's website. 

IDV has announced the release of SpeedTree 9.5. (more...)

Maxon has announced the the release of ZBrush 2023.2. Changes include: (more...)

Martin Geupel has published a new article in which he critiques some of the common practices used to determine base colours in Physically Based Rendering. (more...)

SitniSati, has released a new tutorial on creating realistic drone aiming and firing effects using the upgraded FumeFX 6 in 3ds Max. (more...)