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Autodesk cuts prices of Flow Studio subscriptions
See the new prices for the AI-based VFX and animation platform, formerly known as Wonder Studio - and its new free subscription plan.
KeenTools releases KeenTools 2025.2 for Blender and Nuke
Minor update to the intuitive tracking and head reconstruction plugins adds support for Blender 4.5 and Nuke 16.0. See all of the changes.
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 20.1
Check out the changes to the free video editing and grading software, including new workflows for creating XR content for the Apple Vision Pro.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 5.1
Check out the changes to the 3D scanning app, including new Auto Tiling and Fold Removal filters, and the option to flatten material layers.
Polygoniq releases botaniq 7.1 for Blender
Popular library of 3D plants gets over 200 new assets from around the world, plus the option to filter plant species by location.
New tutorial: Digital Painting in Photoshop
Master the foundations of professional-level painting in concept art with The Gnomon Workshop's essential beginner's guide.
Chaos adds new AI tools to V-Ray in V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max, Update 2
Check out the new AI Material Generator and image enhancer in this major update to Chaos's production renderer.
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2026.2
Check out the changes to the 3D modeling and animation software, including the option to send objects from a Max scene to a USD stage.
Autodesk releases Maya 2026.2 and Maya Creative 2026.2
Check out the changes to the 3D animation app, including updates to LookdevX and new generative animation system MotionMaker.
Turn a custom ZBrush model into a game-ready character with CC4
[Sponsored] Games artist Francis Lamoureux reveals how he uses Reallusion's Character Creator to convert sculpts to game characters.
Sneak peek: Houdini 21
Read our list of 300+ new features due in the next version of Houdini - from Neural Point Surface for liquids to the Otis organic tissue solver.
Chaos Cosmos gets new Globe Plants and Evermotion assets
Big update adds over 30,000 new stock assets to the library available to Corona and V-Ray subscribers, including 3D plants and furniture.
Animation studio Laika joins the Academy Software Foundation
Oscar-nominated studio behind Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings joins industry body promoting open-source tech.
Get 200+ 3D assets for creating Chinese buildings in Unreal Engine
Get Chen Jian's Traditional Chinese-Style Park pack of detailed, modular architectural components free on Fab for two weeks.
See CG benchmarks for AMD’s Threadripper 9980X and 9970X
Discover how AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series CPUs performed in CG apps like Blender, Maya and UE5 in our early tests.
Adobe releases Photoshop 26.9 and new Photoshop beta
Check out the new features in the image-editing software - including a new AI compositing feature based on Project Perfect Blend.
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2025.2
Check out the new features in the AI-assisted animation software, including better AI inbetweening and 3Dconnexion support.
JangaFX releases LiquiGen 1.0
The real-time liquid simulator is now officially production-ready. Check out the new options for simulating deliciously viscous fluids.
JangaFX releases IlluGen 1.0
Interesting new tool for creating VFX for games generates both 2D and 3D assets for FX like magic and energy from a single node graph.
JangaFX releases GeoGen 0.5
Latest beta build makes the real-time terrain- and planet-generation tool available for macOS, as well as Windows and Linux.
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