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Check out free Blender scattering add-on OpenScatter
Promising open-source add-on lets you scatter plants and rocks in your scenes according to elevation, texture masks or guide curves.
CETA Software launches Artist Access
Check out the new time-tracking tools in the cloud-based production management platform for VFX. Free for six months to startup studios.
Foundry releases Nuke 16.0
Next major update to Nuke introduces native multishot compositing, and improves roto performance and BlinkScript editing.
Boris FX releases SynthEyes 2025
3D tracking and match-moving software gets new multi-export system, AI-based roto masking, and 3D head mesh for head tracking.
Adobe launches Photoshop on iPhone
Image-editing and retouching app is now available on iPhone as well as iPad, with an Android version coming soon. Read our FAQs here.
Plastic Software releases Plasticity 2025.1
Check out the changes to the intuitive NURBS modeler, including a revamped interface, and a new Section Analysis command.
Technicolor Group begins to shut down operations
Financial problems of the owner of Mikros Animation and VFX Oscar-winners MPC and The Mill threaten thousands of artists' jobs worldwide.
Download four free VDB clouds from VFX Assets
Get free volumetric 3D clouds for previs, motion graphics and VFX in CG apps and game engines like Blender, Maya and Unreal Engine.
Artlist discontinues the FXhome apps: HitFilm and Imerge dead
Video editing, compositing and VFX app and still image editor had over 6 million users prior to buyout and switch to subscription pricing.
Free tool: Mesh Cleaner for Blender
VFX artist Rob Dickinson's handy add-on fixes artefacts in 3D scans and models in one click, to prepare them for animation or rendering.
Tutorial: Introduction to Lighting & Compositing for Cinematics
Master workflows used in cinematics and animation production with The Gnomon Workshop's improvers' guide.
Adobe to raise the price of Substance 3D subscriptions
Cost of Substance 3D Texturing, Collection and Teams subscriptions to rise from 9-25% in March 2025. Read our FAQs about the changes.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 5.0
Check out the new features in the 3D capture software, including path tracing in the 3D View and support for HP's Z Captis scanner.
Chaos acquires architectural AI tools developer EvolveLAB
Chaos adds AI visualization and ideation app Veras to its product line. See what the buyout means for users of both firms' tools.
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2025.1
Sizeable update to the real-time visualization app adds volumetric clouds, Virtual Shadow Maps and automatic LOD generation.
Is AI replacing render farms?
[Sponsored] Online render farm Forrender argues that traditional workflows provide control and scalability that new AI tools cannot.
SuperSplat 2.0 lets you create flythroughs of 3D Gaussian Splats
Free, open-source online tool for viewing and editing 3DGS data can now add camera animations to existing scans.
KeenTools releases KeenTools 2025.1 for Blender and Nuke
Check out the changes to tracking plugins FaceTracker and GeoTracker, including new wireframe rendering and start frame selection options.
Maxon releases Red Giant 2025.3 and Universe 2025.2
Check out the new features in the suite of motion graphics and VFX plugins and the online library of effects and transitions.
Maxon releases Redshift 2025.3
Renderer gets better multiscattering in volumes, USD procedural support in Maya, and initial support for GeForce 50 Series GPUs.
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