Orange Turbine releases Retopoflow 4.0 for Blender
Long-awaited update integrates the popular suite of sketch-based retopology tools directly into Edit Mode. See the other changes.
Tuesday, October 21st, 2025
Open 3D Foundation releases O3DE 2025.10
Latest release of the open-source game engine is mainly a bugfix update, but it lays the groundwork for changes to the Material Pipeline.
Monday, October 20th, 2025
Sneak peek: GPU-accelerated smoke and fire in NeXus
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
Apple unveils its new M5 chip
Check out the specs for the fifth-gen Apple Silicon processor, and how it performs in CG apps like Blender and DaVinci Resolve.
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Unreal Engine 5.7: five key features for CG artists
See our pick of the features in the next version of Unreal Engine, from the new procedural plant editor to updates to MetaHumans.
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Chaos releases Vantage 3.0
Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer adds initial support for USD, MaterialX, 3D Gaussian Splatting, and volumes.
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Check out comparative animal anatomy reference tool Anastomia
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
Atlux λ 2 puts a virtual 3D scanning studio in Unreal Engine
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
Get standalone GPU FLIP fluid solver Storm HydroFX free in beta
Promising new tool based on the Storm multiphysics simulator exports liquid sims in Alembic format for use in other CG apps.
Monday, October 13th, 2025
Scene Group releases Cavalry 2.5
Big update to the motion design software adds a planar tracker, chroma keying, and support for file referencing to create precomps.
Monday, October 13th, 2025
Affinity Photo 2, Designer 2 and Publisher 2 for iPad are now free
The iPad editions of the image-editing, vector design and page layout tools are currently available with no in-app purchase needed.
Sunday, October 12th, 2025
Why has Serif stopped selling its Affinity software?
Read our FAQs on why Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher have been taken off sale ahead of an announcement on 30 October.
Sunday, October 12th, 2025
Trimble releases SketchUp 2026.0
Check out the latest features in the architectural modeling software, including new collaboration options and updates to PBR materials.
Thursday, October 9th, 2025