Maxon discontinues Forger
Downloads of the iPad sculpting app to end on 10 September 2025, with users encouraged to switch to ZBrush for iPad.
Sunday, July 6th, 2025
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Foundry discontinues Modo
Veteran 3D modeling and rendering software retired after 20 years, with no further updates expected after Modo 17.1, due later this year.
Thursday, November 7th, 2024
Google open-sources virtual reality modeling app Blocks
Intuitive tool for creating low-poly 3D models in virtual reality gets new lease of life as open-source app Open Blocks.
Sunday, August 18th, 2024
Check out the new features in Vue 2024 and PlantFactory 2024
Final versions of the now-discontinued digital nature tools are available free for commercial use. Discover their features here.
Friday, May 10th, 2024
Download Vue, PlantFactory and PlantCatalog for free
E-on software's digital nature tools are now available as free perpetual licenses, but development has been discontinued. Read our FAQs here.
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
Unity discontinues the Ziva products
Unity ends sales of Maya tissue simulation plugin Ziva VFX, real-time toolset Ziva RT, and facial-rigging service Ziva Face Trainer.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
Autodesk ships Flame 2024.2
Check out the new features in the compositing and effects software, including a new workflow for subtitles and H.264 export.
Thursday, October 26th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 13.0
Material authoring app gets a new set of Spline and Path tools, but its procedural geometry toolset has been removed.
Wednesday, June 7th, 2023
Isotropix has discontinued Clarisse
Updated: Emails sent to users say that sales and development of the layout & look dev tool have ended.
Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
Foundry stops development of Colorway
Dev team for Foundry's tool for visualising variants of product designs now assigned to Modo.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023
Autodesk ships Flame 2023.3
Compositing and effects software gets support for AWS CDI in the cloud. Old Sparks plugins to be deprecated in the next update.
Saturday, December 10th, 2022
Clara.io is closing down
Access to the pioneering browser-based 3D modelling and rendering tool and its library of 500,000 free 3D models to end on 31 December.
Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
Chaos releases Chaos Player Update 1
Image sequence viewer gets new Contacts Sheet system for viewing render elements and shot variants.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2022