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Epic is making Megascans free to all – but only until the end of 2024
Read our FAQs on the upcoming pricing and licensing changes to the popular online library of 3D scans for games, VFX and visualization work.
Epic Games to launch its Fab marketplace in October 2024
New 'open marketplace' will replace the Unreal Engine Marketplace and ArtStation and Sketchfab stores. Read our FAQs on the handover.
Tutorial: Creating Efficient Digital Doubles for VFX
Master industry-standard workflow for creating digi doubles from raw scan data with The Gnomon Workshop's full beginner's guide.
Kiri Engine 3.10 and 3.11 are out
Twin updates to the 3D scanning app add support for 8K textures on Android and iOS, and iOS-only Area Mode for scanning environments.
Maxon releases Red Giant 2025
See the new features in the sets of effects plugins: Magic Bullet 2025, Maxon Studio 2025, Trapcode 2025, Universe 2025 and VFX 2025.
Check out the new machine learning tools in Silhouette 2024.5
Roto and paint software gets new 'single-click' AI tool for generating masks from source footage, plus new annotation tools.
Unity scraps controversial Runtime Fee but raises prices
Cost of Unity Pro subscriptions to rise by 8% next year, and Unity Enterprise by 25%. Free Unity Personal subscriptions unaffected.
ZibraVDB: real-time volumetric rendering in virtual production
[Sponsored] Discover how Zibra AI aims to revolutionize CGI with its volumetric compression technology for Unreal Engine and Houdini
Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 6.5 for 3ds Max
Major update to the gaseous fluid simulator and multiphysics plugin adds new GPU-accelerated liquid simulation toolset.
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2024.2
Sizeable update to the AI-assisted animation app adds AutoPhysics based character interaction, and support for facial blendshapes.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.14
Update reworks painting workflow in the digital sculpting software for virtual reality and desktop systems. Check out all of the changes here.
Adobe releases Photoshop 25.12
Check out the new features in the latest workflow update to Adobe's image-editing and digital painting software.
Adobe is extending Firefly generative AI to its video tools
New Firefly Video Model will let users of Premiere Pro - and maybe After Effects - generate video from text, images or existing video clips.
Maxon releases Redshift 2025
New version of the GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Houdini and Maya features updates to caustics and non-photorealistic rendering.
Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2025
Check out the latest features in the 3D animation and motion graphics app. Redshift GPU renderer now bundled with every subscription.
Maxon releases ZBrush for iPad
Much-anticipated iPad edition of the sculpting app lets artists work on the move. Read FAQs on its feature set, its limitations, and its price.
Maxon releases ZBrush 2025
Check out the new features in the digital sculpting tool, including USDZ export. Subscriptions also now include ZBrush for iPad.
Tutorial: Mastering Body Mechanics in Maya
Discover a production-proven, time-saving character animation workflow with The Gnomon Workshop's new Maya masterclass.
Puppeteer Overlap for Maya adds secondary motion to animations
Streamlined new tool automatically adds overlap and follow-through to increase the realism of character and creature animation.
Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 2025
Digital painting and image-editing software gets a new LIquidFX tool for image deformation, and better greenscreen and object removal.
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