New UV Visualization Tool For Houdini

Watch Synthetic Muscles Grow in This Blender 3D Animation

Artist Cartesian Caramel has created a new Blender animation using Geometry Nodes that shows synthetic muscles growing across a character fiber by fiber. The setup has a cinematic, sci-fi/cyberpunk aesthetic. The artist is known for impressive procedural setups in Blender, including previous works on running water, sound visualization, skeleton arm tests, lighting effects, and spider webs.

How Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age Recreated Extinct Creatures with VFX

Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, the third season of the BBC Studios docuseries, required VFX and animation for over 40 scientifically accurate extinct creatures. Framestore and Practice Creations collaborated on the production, using physical puppets on real-world locations to plan timing, framing, and focus before shooting clean plates. Puppets were built to be lightweight and durable enough for extreme environments like Mongolian steppes and Iceland. The workflow involved a 'puppet pass' to establish natural performance and spontaneity before the digital creatures were composited in.

This Free Maya Plug-In Simplifies Photo References & Camera Matching

Matcha is a free Maya plug-in by 3D artist Kanstantsin V. that streamlines working with photo references and camera matching. It lets users create, manage, save, and restore reference cameras, then project photo references directly onto 3D models. The tool supports combining UV and Projection Layers to build high-quality textures, with export to organized PSD files including projections, masks, and layer hierarchy. A Pro version adds a full projection painting workflow for building seamless textures from photo references. Both versions include an intuitive UI with hotkeys.

Tutorial: Build Full Dungeon Crawler In Godot

The GameDev Tavern has launched a free 20-hour YouTube series teaching intermediate game developers how to build a complete 3D dungeon crawler called Goblins' Den in Godot from scratch. Spanning 20 episodes released on a MWF schedule, the course covers node-based state machines, composition models, ragdoll physics, shaders, pathfinding, lighting, and level design. All assets — textures, models, rigs, animations, music, and sound effects — are created within the course itself. The full project code and assets are available on GitHub under the MIT License.

glTF 2.1—beyond single 3D assets – Jon Peddie Research

Nhóm làm việc định dạng 3D của Khronos đang phát triển glTF 2.1, phiên bản tương thích ngược nhằm hỗ trợ các cảnh 3D lớn, phức hợp thay vì chỉ tài sản đơn lẻ. Tính năng mới bao gồm biểu đồ cảnh đa tệp chuẩn hóa, phân vùng không gian, hệ thống LOD, streaming tiến triển và tích hợp khái niệm 3D Tiles từ OGC, phục vụ digital twins, BIM, thành phố thông minh và môi trường cộng tác quy mô lớn. Đặc tả được phát triển công khai trên GitHub và cộng đồng có thể đóng góp phản hồi, với thảo luận dự kiến tại glTF Ecosystem Forum trong SIGGRAPH 2026.

Lập trình viên cần đọc bài này để hiểu cách mở rộng glTF 2.1 thành công cho các ứng dụng 3D lớn như game, kiến trúc số, hoặc các môi trường thực tế ảo phân tán, giúp tối ưu hóa hiệu suất và tương thích cho các dự án quy mô lớn.

3D Character Artist Shares a Jinx Fan Art Made with ZBrush & Blender

3D character artist Eugene Roienko recreated Jinx from Arcane season 2 using ZBrush, Substance 3D Painter, Blender, RizomUV, and Maya. Starting from a sphere with no base mesh, he sculpted stylized proportions from scratch. To achieve the iconic Arcane look, he used Blender's hair particle system with a custom shader for a 2D appearance, and rendered separate passes (albedo, AO, hard shadows, emission) composited in Photoshop rather than relying on traditional 3D rendering.

New Free Tool Automatically Creates Clean Quad Topology

AutoRemesher 1.0 has officially launched after more than five years of development. It is a free, open-source retopology tool (MIT license) that converts high-polygon meshes into clean quad-based topology. Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux, it uses libraries like Geogram and libigl under the hood. While some manual cleanup may still be needed, the remeshing process is reportedly fast, making it a viable alternative to other retopology solutions.