Download Figment's free UDIM Globe toolset

Free Photoshop scripts convert high-res planetary textures to UDIMs for use in VFX and animation, in apps like 3ds Max, Blender, Maya.

Sunday, May 4th, 2025

Maxon releases Redshift 2025.5

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

Thursday, June 19th, 2025

Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2025.3 with new liquid simulation system

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

Thursday, June 19th, 2025

DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 2.15

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

Sunday, June 15th, 2025

Check out new 3ds Max UV unwrapping plugin UVReactor

Updated: Features added in the 1.1 and 1.2 releases include Multi Object Mode, UDIM packing, and the new UVReactor modifier.

Tuesday, April 15th, 2025

Zen Masters releases Zen UV 5.0

Check out the new features in the free update to the popular Blender UV editing toolset for games and visual effects work.

Tuesday, March 25th, 2025

Łukasz Czyż releases UVPackmaster 3 for Maya

Check out the popular GPU-accelerated UV packing and UV stacking tool, now available for Maya as well as Blender.

Friday, December 13th, 2024

Marmoset releases Toolbag 5.0

Major update to the real-time lighting and look dev tool adds support for UDIM workflows, interactive baking, hybrid rendering.

Monday, October 14th, 2024

Autodesk releases Bifrost for Maya 2.11

Maya's multiphysics plugin gets experimental new modular rigging toolset, plus the option to generate variant simulations in the cloud.

Saturday, October 12th, 2024

Chaos releases Vantage 2.4

Real-time ray tracing renderer for exploring large V-Ray scenes gets support for UDIM textures and the V-Ray Decal system.

Thursday, May 23rd, 2024

Get Reallusion's five great free animation-ready 3D characters

Download free, fully rigged human characters with Reallusion's animation-friendly CC3+ Base topology. For commercial use.

Wednesday, March 20th, 2024

Tutorial: Creating a High-Fidelity Hero Building

Discover how to create environment assets for VFX or games cinematics in The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Saturday, March 2nd, 2024

JangaFX releases LiquiGen 0.1

Much-anticipated real-time liquid simulator gets first public preview. See which features are in the initial alpha, and which are coming later.

Tuesday, February 13th, 2024