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Topaz Labs releases Gigapixel 8
AI app for upresing photos and 3D renders gets new generative AI-based upscaling model, and option to render images in the cloud.
Tutorial: Concepting & Illustrating a Sword for Games
Master professional concept design techniques in ZBrush, Blender and Photoshop with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Chaos releases Vantage 2.6
Real-time ray tracing renderer for large V-Ray scenes gets support for the V-Ray Clipper and a new Water Surface object.
Autodesk releases Flame 2025.2
Check out the new features in the compositing and effects software, including a new machine-learning-assisted Morph tool.
Color Intelligence releases Colourlab Ai 3 Creator and Pro
Updated: Pro edition of the AI color grading software includes ACES support and a new OFX plugin for integration with Nuke.
Polygonflow releases Dash 1.8
Promising Unreal Engine 5 world building toolset gets new UI, new PureRef-style image organizer and improved scatter tools.
Physical Water FX adds good-looking water surfaces in Blender
Promising add-on creates surface water complete with ripples, foam, rain splashes and floating debris. Works with Cycles and Eevee.
CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 2024.2
Check out the new features in the 3D clothing design software, including improvements to its real-time simulation toolset.
Epic has made Megascans free to all – but only until the end of 2024
Read our FAQs on the pricing and licensing changes to the popular online library of 3D scans for games, VFX and visualization work.
Epic Games launches its new Fab marketplace
New 'open marketplace' replaces the Unreal Engine Marketplace and will replace the ArtStation and Sketchfab stores. Read our FAQs.
Check out VFX-focused AI video upscaling system Pixell
Currently free in beta: new web-based platform is geared towards VFX and post-production artists looking to upscale shots to 4K or 8K.
Free Nuke plugin Flow Warp bends images round custom paths
Compositing Academy's neat free VFX tool offers a simple way to create flows of energy and light, or art direct stock FX elements.
Creating a Character Bust: From Ideation to Final Render
Create a portfolio-worthy 3D character with Naughty Dog Senior Character Artist Colleen Larson's tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.
Download all of the Blenderesse Blender plugins for free
Jesse Miettinen's versatile Geometry Nodes set-ups generate procedural 3D buildings, trees, ivy - and even car animation rigs - inside Blender.
Unity releases Unity 6
Long-awaited major release of the game engine ships. Check out its new features, new release schedule, and new pricing and licensing.
Download the free project files for the Unity 6 Time Ghost demo
Grab the files for the lead character and environment from the beautiful real-time demo for the new graphics and simulation features in Unity 6.
Sneak peeks: Adobe’s Project Perfect Blend and Project Scenic
Interesting experimental AI technologies relight images during compositing, and use 3D to guide the layout of 2D images.
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2025.3
3D modeling and animation app gets support for the OpenPBR material standard, and performance updates to key modifiers.
Autodesk releases Maya 2025.3
Update to the 3D animation tool reworks Boolean modeling, and introduces OpenPBR support and interesting new simulation features.
Autodesk announces updates to Flow at Autodesk University
New Flow Graph Engine API and Flow Animating in Context will help connect Autodesk's cloud platform to desktop apps like Maya.
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