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

Get standalone GPU FLIP fluid solver Storm HydroFX free in beta

Promising new tool based exports liquid sims in Alembic format for use in other CG software. Now updated to support spray emission.

Monday, December 1st, 2025

Black Friday, Cyber Week and New Year deals for CG artists

Find great seasonal discounts on CG software, hardware and assets. Deals available in January include 3DCoat, 3D Scan Store, CGTrader.

Friday, November 28th, 2025

Epic Games releases RealityScan Mobile 1.8

Free 3D scanning app for Android and iOS phones gets automated background removal and new tools for cleaning up scans.

Saturday, November 22nd, 2025

Download the free edition of RenderMan 27

Free edition of the renderer is licensed for personal use and tools development. Compatible with Blender, Houdini, Katana and Maya.

Friday, November 14th, 2025

Pixar releases RenderMan 27

'Most significant release in a decade' for the heavyweight production renderer makes RenderMan XPU ready for final-frame output.

Friday, November 14th, 2025

Autodesk cuts prices of Flow Studio subscriptions

See the new prices for the AI-based VFX and animation platform, formerly known as Wonder Studio - and its new free subscription plan.

Tuesday, August 12th, 2025

Abstract releases InstaMAT 2025

Major update sees the hotly tipped 3D texture painting and material authoring tools leave early access. Still free for indie artists.

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025

Open-source tool Infinigen Indoors generates procedural 3D interiors

Updated: free Blender-based tool generates 3D interiors, from rooms to entire houses. Check out its new Infinigen-Sim toolset.

Monday, June 30th, 2025

Download Figment's free UDIM Globe toolset

Free Photoshop scripts convert high-res planetary textures to UDIMs for use in VFX and animation, in apps like 3ds Max, Blender, Maya.

Sunday, May 4th, 2025

Polygonflow releases Dash 1.9

Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool, including Runtime Virtual Texturing and an Advanced Water Shader.

Thursday, March 13th, 2025

D5 Render 2.10 adds real-time path tracing

Major update to Dimension 5's real-time visualization software adds experimental path tracing system. Check out the other new features.

Thursday, March 6th, 2025

Get 6 free smoke and fire effects sequences from FX BackPack

Get free smoke and fire FX as 2K ProRes files or sequences of VDB files optimized for rendering in Blender. For commercial use.

Sunday, January 12th, 2025