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Foundry discontinues Modo
Veteran 3D modeling and rendering software retired after 20 years, with no further updates expected after Modo 17.1, due later this year.
Epic Games to share new free assets on Fab every two weeks
New batches of commercial tools and assets will be made available free on the online marketplace for two weeks, every two weeks.
Get 100+ free modular airport assets for Unity and Unreal Engine
Freshcan 3D's Military Airport pack is a set of 3D buildings, roads and props, licensed for commercial use in any game engine or CG software.
Reallusion adds AI Smart Search to Character Creator and iClone
AI-based system lets you find online stock assets matching reference images or plain-text descriptions, directly inside the apps.
Poly Hammer unveils MetaHuman DNA add-on for Blender
New tool promises to let you create or edit Unreal Engine MetaHuman characters directly in Blender. Currently free in early access.
Academy Software Foundation adopts OpenAPV
Royalty-free open-source codec for professional video production is the VFX industry standards body's latest hosted project.
WRetargetTool is a versatile free Maya animation retargeting tool
Rigging artist Walter Delgado's intuitive add-on retargets animation between 3D characters, regardless of rig structure.
Sketchsoft releases Feather 1.0
First paid version of the nifty 3D sketching app for iPad is a major update, adding new 3D liquify, lighting and post effects toolsets.
Tutorial: Creating Cinematic Concept Art
Discover an efficient professional concept art workflow in Blender and Photoshop with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Get ProductionCrate’s three new free After Effects plugins
Crate's Unmult, Crate's Chromatic Aberration and Crate's Long Shadow streamline common tasks in VFX, motion graphics and CG work.
Download VFX artist David Llopis’s free Maya dragon rig
Get the DNEG Lead Animator's neat free creature rig, licensed for use in portfolio work, and supplied as a Maya MB scene file.
Chaos releases Enscape 4.2
Check out the new features in the real-time visualization software, including improvements to software ray tracing and Artistic Visual Modes.
Boris FX releases Continuum 2025
Set of effects plugins for video editing and compositing apps gets new AI-based motion blur filter and updates to Particle Illusion.
Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max
Latest major update to the renderer adds support for 3D Gaussian Splatting and luminaires, and updates V-Ray GPU and the VFB.
Check out Wonder Studio’s new Wonder Animation feature
New video-to-3D-scene system 'brings artists closer to producing animated films' as well as VFX with the AI online film-making platform.
Dimension 5 Techs releases D5 Render 2.9
GPU renderer and real-time visualization tool gets new terrain sculpting and phasing animation systems, plus 3D Gaussian Splatting.
10 subtle tricks to improve your character animation
Discover 10 things you can do today to improve your character animation work with DreamWorks animator Adrien Liv's expert tips.
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.
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