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Create outline renders in Blender with the free Octane Edge Tools
Create customisable anime-style outline renders in Blender and OctaneRender using Lino Grandi's neat new free add-on.
iCity 1.5 generates procedural 3D cities inside Blender
Plan out city layouts and have this neat tool populate them with 3D buildings. Check out the updates to road generation in the 1.5 release.
Get 330 free kitbash assets for post-apocalyptic environments
Download free assets from Oleg Ushenok's incredible new kitbash asset pack. FBX format, with PBR textures, for commercial use.
Maxon releases Red Giant 2025.5
Check out the latest features in Maxon's suite of motion graphics and VFX plugins for compositing and video editing apps.
Tutorial: Creating a Sci-Fi Sequence using Houdini Solaris
Master lighting and layout workflows for VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's comprehensive guide to Houdini's Solaris toolset.
Open 3D Foundation releases O3DE 25.05
Check out the changes to the open-source game engine, including updates to multi-GPU rendering, cinematics editing and XR workflow.
Maxon releases Redshift 2025.5
Check out the new features in the GPU renderer, including support for rendering USDZ files, and support for point clouds in Blender.
Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2025.3 with new liquid simulation system
3D animation and motion graphics app gets liquid simulation toolset, plus support for UDIMs and texel density. See all the new features.
Epic Games releases RealityScan 2.0 and RealityScan Mobile 1.7
Check out the new features in the desktop 3D scanning tool and the Android and iOS photogrammetry apps, all of them free to indie artists.
Adobe releases Photoshop 26.8
Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including a new Dynamic Text system, and support for AVIF and JPEG XL.
Alexey Vanzhula releases Modeler 2025.2 for Houdini
See all the changes to the popular 3D modeling toolkit for Houdini, including a new shading preset system, and a new hotkey layout.
Chaos releases Corona 13 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D
Architectural renderer gets new toon shading system, support for animation in Vantage Live Link, and integration with Chaos AI Enhancer.
Wacom announces new Cintiq 16, Cintiq 24 and Cintiq 24 Touch
Wacom's first new mid-range pen displays for five years are smaller but sharper than the old Cintiqs. Check out their specs and prices.
Left Angle closes: Autograph goes off sale, staff join Maxon
Next-gen motion graphics app Autograph discontinued - but there is now a workaround to activate your existing software offline.
Marmoset releases Toolbag 5.02 in beta
Check out the new features in the real-time rendering and look dev tool, from dedicated decal layers to low-to-low-poly texture baking.
Adobe releases After Effects 25.3
Check out the new features in the compositing software for motion graphics and VFX, like the option to zoom in smoothly on compositions.
Download Unreal Engine 2D animation plugin Odyssey for free
Get Praxinos's versatile 2D animation, storyboard and texture painting toolset for UE5 free from Fab, including for commercial use.
DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 2.15
Check out the new features in the open-source release of DreamWorks Animation's renderer. used on movies like The Wild Robot.
Tutorial: Practical Lighting for Production
Master professional CG lighting workflows with former Blizzard lighting lead Graham Cunningham's tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.
Boris FX releases Mocha Pro 2025.5
Planar tracking tool gets new AI face recognition system for automatically obscuring identities in footage. Check out its other new features.
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