Autodesk lays off a further 1,000 staff
Second major round of layoffs at the 3ds Max and Maya developer in a year will affect sales staff and is not "an effort to replace people with AI".
Monday, January 26th, 2026
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Howler 2026.3 is out
Check out the new features in the digital painting and animation app, including a new rich text system and built-in video transcoding.
Saturday, January 24th, 2026
Dell backs the Blender Development Fund
Dell becomes the first major PC manufacturer to back development of the open-source 3D software, contributing €30,000/year.
Friday, January 23rd, 2026
Pulldownit 6.5 for Maya gets neat new non-destructive workflow
Thinkinetic's destruction plugin now lets users update the geometry or shatter pattern of the object being broken after a sim has been run.
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
Try new Houdini GPU liquid solver Paradigm free in open beta
Check out the promising new GPU-accelerated sparse liquid solver from Theory Accelerated, creator of the popular Axiom fluid solver.
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
Storm HydroFX 1.0 is a GPU-based standalone FLIP fluid simulator
Now production-ready: neat new tool creates VFX-quality fluid simulations for export to CG software in USD or Alembic format.
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
Adobe releases After Effects 26.0 with native Substance support
Check out the new features for CG, VFX and motion graphics artists in the latest major update to Adobe's compositing software.
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
Check out free material authoring software Material Maker 1.5
See the new features in the open-source alternative to Substance 3D Designer, including DDS support and seven new SDF nodes.
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
Teya Conceptor's free version just got a lot more like the Pro edition
Latest update to the kitbashing software lets you work on more than one object in the free version, and lifts restrictions on object Variants.
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
UVPackmaster 4 for Blender is out
Popular GPU-accelerated UV packing add on gets new Dynamic Tiles system and more texel density controls. See all the changes.
Monday, January 19th, 2026
Vjaceslav Tissen releases Simply Cloth Studio 2.0 for Blender
Check out the new features in the latest version of the popular lightweight cloth simulation and 3D garment design add-on for Blender.
Monday, January 19th, 2026
Tutorial: Simulating Crowds with Golaem & Maya
Master crowd simulation for VFX and game cinematics with The Gnomon Workshop's crash course in Maya crowds add-on Golaem.
Saturday, January 17th, 2026
Check out real-time Blender water simulation add-on Dynamic Flow
Lightweight 'terrain-aware' tool generates realistic water flow around coastlines and river banks. Works with Eevee and Cycles.
Friday, January 16th, 2026