AOUSD releases the OpenUSD Core Specification
First formal USD spec marks a step towards making USD an ISO-ratified cross-industry standard. See what it means for CG software developers.
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025
motion graphics
Download cool free After Effects plugin Crate's Black Hole
ProductionCrate's free After Effects plugin adds beautiful Interstellar-inspired black holes to your VFX and motion graphics projects.
Sunday, December 21st, 2025
Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 7.5 for 3ds Max
New CUDA-based GPU solver makes smoke and fire simulation in the 3ds Max effects plugin '2-5x' faster than on the CPU.
Friday, December 19th, 2025
Plastic Software releases Plasticity 2025.3
Check out the new features in the popular hard surface modeling tool, including a new instancing system, and shareable web previews.
Tuesday, December 16th, 2025
Boris FX releases Mocha Pro 2026
Check out the changes to the planar and 3D tracking software, including a new AI-powered system for refining tricky edges on mattes.
Monday, December 15th, 2025
Chaos releases V-Ray 7.2 for Maya
Check out the changes to the Maya edition of the renderer, including a new displacement material, and a viewport live link to Vantage.
Saturday, December 13th, 2025
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 15.1
Check out the new features in the material authoring software, improving workflow when creating and editing node graphs.
Friday, December 12th, 2025
Foundry adds 3D Gaussian Splats to the Nuke 17.0 open beta
Check out the features in the latest beta build of Nuke, also including a new BigCat node for training larger custom AI models on VFX data.
Friday, December 12th, 2025
Chaos releases V-Ray 7.2 for Blender
Check out the latest features in the Blender edition of the renderer, including macOS support, and a new distributed rendering system.
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
Chaos releases V-Ray 7.2 for Houdini
Check out the changes to the Houdini edition of the renderer, including a 'completely re-imagined' volume shader for smoke and fire.
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
Leopoly releases Shapelab Max 2026
Check out the new features in the desktop and VR sculpting tool, including a reworked 3D gizmo and an eye-catching Elastic Move tool.
Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
QuadSpinner unveils Gaea 3.0
Check out the features due in next year's major update to the terrain design app, including USD support and new Blender and Maya plugins.
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Insydium releases Fused 2025.4 with new animation toolset Jidou
Check out the changes to the popular set of Cinema 4D add-ons, also including GPU-accelerated smoke and fire simulation in NeXus.
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025