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Create customisable anime-style outline renders in Blender and OctaneRender using Lino Grandi's neat new free add-on.

Tuesday, June 24th, 2025

New non-photorealistic rendering branch of the open-source 3D app is being developed with input from anime firm DillonGoo Studios.

Tuesday, December 17th, 2024

Compositing and motion graphics app gets new 3D features including support for animated 3D models and a shadow catcher system.

Wednesday, June 19th, 2024

Free tool to prevent generative AI models from learning artists' personal styles from online images is now faster and more robust.

Monday, April 15th, 2024

Add-on brings the outline rendering toolset used on anime movies to the open-source 3D app. Now supports viewport rendering and EPS export.

Tuesday, October 31st, 2023

Interesting fork of the open-source 3D software adds animation and rendering features for anime artists.

Thursday, July 13th, 2023

Version 1.0 now available: free 'cloaking' tool makes it harder for AI models to learn from artists' online images.

Wednesday, June 28th, 2023

Stability for Blender puts the AI image generator into Blender - for animation as well as still images.

Monday, March 6th, 2023

AI image-generation framework turns simple 3D scenes in Blender into detailed, stylised concept art.

Monday, October 17th, 2022

Watch an eye-catching two-minute round-up of the best animation and VFX from China, Japan and Korea.

Wednesday, January 1st, 2020

Try the new Maya edition of the Japanese cel shading plugin, as used on Dragon Ball Super: Broly.

Monday, October 29th, 2018

Updated: MakeHuman-style tool for creating custom 3D characters gets new hair library and hair shaders.

Sunday, January 28th, 2018

Popular 3ds Max cel-shading plugin gets support for material transparency; now works with XRefs and the Nitrous viewport.

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017