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Check out the new features in the real-time lighting design tool, including the option to LightPaint the sun into the sky.

Tuesday, November 4th, 2025

Check out the changes to the VFX plugins for compositing and video editing apps, including AI masking tools and revamped chromakeying.

Monday, November 3rd, 2025

Final release of the 3D modeling, animation and rendering software is available under an extended EOL license, but grab it soon.

Sunday, November 2nd, 2025

New mocap solution for iClone users integrates directly into the animation app, extracting full-body and hand motion from source video.

Friday, October 31st, 2025

Interesting tool suite transfers clothing and rigs between 3D characters from different sources. Works with UE5 MetaHumans.

Wednesday, October 29th, 2025

Get ultra-high-resolution HDRIs for visualization, VFX and games projects from the new online asset library. EXR format, CC0 license.

Monday, October 27th, 2025

Check out the changes in the latest update to the GPU production renderer, including support for macOS Tahoe in Octane X.

Saturday, October 25th, 2025

Affordable 24-inch pen display for professional 2D and 3D artists supports 10-point multi-touch and 16,384 levels of pressure sensitivity.

Thursday, October 23rd, 2025

Check out our list of CG tools that can - or soon will - harness the Snapdragon processors in Copilot+ PCs, from Affinity Photo to ZBrush.

Tuesday, October 21st, 2025

Long-awaited update integrates the popular suite of sketch-based retopology tools directly into Edit Mode. See the other changes.

Tuesday, October 21st, 2025

Check out nxExplosiaFX, the new smoke and fire simulation tool in Insydium's GPU-based particle effects add-on for Cinema 4D.

Friday, October 17th, 2025

You can download popular Maya rig creator Truong CG Artist's handy anatomy reference software free while it's in early access.

Wednesday, October 15th, 2025

Big update to the UE5 product and portfolio rendering plugin also lets you generate virtual scan data for use in 3D Gaussian Splatting apps.

Tuesday, October 14th, 2025