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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.
How to Fracture Anything Using Geo Nodes!
Tired of using Blender's old cell fracture add-on? In this video Kenan Proffitt shows you how to make your own procedural fracture tool in blender using Geometry Nodes.
How To Use Volumes To Add Depth
"Just add fog" is a go-to rule when an image is lacking visual depth. In this tutorial Lino Thomas shows how to can use uniform and non uniform volumes to add a layer of fog as well as a nice distance based haze. I am sure this will be useful in some of your scenes [...]
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.
Sculpting tool: Array.
Creating Ice Cream Drumsticks in Blender
Ryan King Art shows how to create these ice cream drumsticks in Blender.
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.
'Do it all in Blender!' with Jason Van Gumster - Subsurface Talks podcast #10
Subsurface Talks podcast's 10th guest is the legendary Jason van Gumster, author of Blender for Dummies and countless other Blender-related activities. As he describes himself - a member of the 'Blender old farts club'. Neither age nor impressive experience takes away any of Jason's contagious energy and enthusiasm. Whether it's writing crazy science fiction prose, [...]
Creative Shrimp New Blender Game Asset Course [$]
A Step-by-Step Guide to Modeling, Sculpting, Texturing, UVs, Optimization and Exporting for Game Engines. 25% off till Monday 3rd March 2025. Modeling for a game is some of the most challenging type of modeling we can do. We can’t just throw subdivision modifiers onto our objects and expect that to run smoothly in game. So [...]
Blender 4.3: Precise Modeling for Architecture, Engineering, and 3D Printing [$]
Allan Brito has updated his book for beginning Blender users with a focus on CAD design. Early last year, I released a book about using Blender as a CAD tool. Initially written for Blender 4.0, the book became a huge success on Blender 3D Architect. After several months, I'm releasing a minor update that includes [...]
Fit Curve – Simpler Curve Alignment in Blender [$]
Blender's Curve Deform Modifier is absolutely fine but it can be a little tricky to use, resulting in unexpected rotations, confusing transformations, and objects that don’t align as expected. Fit Curve is a Modifier asset that aims to make aligning objects to curves more simple and intuitive with less guesswork. If you have any questions, [...]
Timelapse: Creating 3D Spider-Man Animations in Blender
Pietro Chiovaro created this 3D VFX animation in Blender, blending real footage of New York City with a 3D-animated Spider-Man. This project was a fun challenge, combining CGI and live-action to bring the web-slinger to life. Let me know your thoughts, and if you have any tips, drop them in the comments below! :D Software: [...]
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.
Optimization - Visibility Settings
In this video Spencer Magnusson looks at Blender optimization . He goes over visibility settings for objects and collections, and the WHY you would (and should) use all of them.
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.
Video: Welcome to Jurassic Park (+Breakdown)
BlindIllusionist shared this impressive short scene that he re-created in Blender from Jurassic World. After seeing the announcement for a new Jurassic World movie I rewatched the original Jurassic Park and wanted to see if I might be able to achieve something similar as the scene in the beginning, where the helicopter approaches Isla Nublar [...]
Modeling Tools: Surface Revolve
Tutorial: Introduction to Lighting & Compositing for Cinematics
Master workflows used in cinematics and animation production with The Gnomon Workshop's improvers' guide.