Digital Production

CardCutter turns texture into Nanite meshes

CardCutter Blender addon converts mask textures into Nanite-ready meshes for Unreal Engine foliage and decal workflows.
Hackaday

Image-Generating AI Can Texture An Entire 3D Scene In Blender

[Carson Katri] has a fantastic solution to easily add textures to 3D scenes in Blender: have an image-generating AI create the texture on demand, and do it for you. It’s not perfect — the odd door or ...

From "slapped on" to "grown in": Hitem3D 2.0 bets integrated texture generation can make AI 3D assets actually printable

Hitem3D 2.0 adds a portrait mode described as "strand-level fidelity," aiming to reconstruct head shape and facial proportions structurally while preserving fine detail like hair flow direction, brows ...
GIGAZINE

Stable Diffusion developer announces 3D animation generation AI 'Stability For Blender', enabling animation generation and 3D model texture generation

Stability AI, the developer of the image generation AI `` Stable Diffusion '', has released the AI-equipped extension `` Stability For Blender '' that runs on the 3DCG software `` Blender ''. With ...
Digital Production

Procedural sawdust: EC Wood Grain hits Blender

Independent Blender developer Eric Charles has released EC Wood Grain, a Geometry Nodes setup that procedurally generates ...
Geeky Gadgets

Blender 4 free 3D animation software launches with a wealth of new features

If you fancy starting a career in 3D animation you might be interested to know that the latest Blender 3D animation software has launched this month and is now available to download as Blender 4.0.