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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.

Download free assets from Oleg Ushenok's incredible new kitbash asset pack. FBX format, with PBR textures, for commercial use.

Check out the latest features in Maxon's suite of motion graphics and VFX plugins for compositing and video editing apps.

Master lighting and layout workflows for VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's comprehensive guide to Houdini's Solaris toolset.

Check out the changes to the open-source game engine, including updates to multi-GPU rendering, cinematics editing and XR workflow.

Check out the new features in the GPU renderer, including support for rendering USDZ files, and support for point clouds in Blender.

3D animation and motion graphics app gets liquid simulation toolset, plus support for UDIMs and texel density. See all the new features.

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.

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including a new Dynamic Text system, and support for AVIF and JPEG XL.

See all the changes to the popular 3D modeling toolkit for Houdini, including a new shading preset system, and a new hotkey layout.

Architectural renderer gets new toon shading system, support for animation in Vantage Live Link, and integration with Chaos AI Enhancer.

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.

Next-gen motion graphics app Autograph discontinued - but there is now a workaround to activate your existing software offline.

Check out the new features in the compositing software for motion graphics and VFX, like the option to zoom in smoothly on compositions.

Get Praxinos's versatile 2D animation, storyboard and texture painting toolset for UE5 free from Fab, including for commercial use.

Check out the new features in the open-source release of DreamWorks Animation's renderer. used on movies like The Wild Robot.

Master professional CG lighting workflows with former Blizzard lighting lead Graham Cunningham's tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.

Planar tracking tool gets new AI face recognition system for automatically obscuring identities in footage. Check out its other new features.

Summer 2025 update to the VR modeling app expands the new voxel engine for blocking out 3D forms. See the other new features.

[Sponsored] Online render farm iRender explains why its powerful, affordable GPU rendering solutions are a must for OctaneRender users.