ZibraVDB for Houdini and UE5 is now free to indie artists

Indie users can now use the real-time effects tech to compress and play back an unlimited number of OpenVDB sequences for free.

Tuesday, August 19th, 2025

MatPlus puts Substance 3D-style texture painting inside Blender

Promising hard-surface-focused add-on implements Substance 3D Painter-style layer-based texture painting inside Blender.

Friday, August 15th, 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

See CG benchmarks for AMD's Threadripper 9980X and 9970X

Discover how AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series CPUs performed in CG apps like Blender, Maya and UE5 in our early tests.

Wednesday, July 30th, 2025

Nekki releases Cascadeur 2025.2

Check out the new features in the AI-assisted animation software, including better AI inbetweening and 3Dconnexion support.

Wednesday, July 30th, 2025

Houdini plant-generation toolkit Natsura is now in early access

Check out the interesting high-performance vegetation modeling toolset for games and VFX, used on SideFX's Project Elderwood demo.

Monday, July 28th, 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

Reallusion announces new release date for Character Creator 5

Check out the new release date for the 3D character creation app for games and VFX, plus details of its ActorMixer character mixing system.

Monday, July 21st, 2025

Beeble launches SwitchLight 2.0

Now out of early access: next-gen video-to-PBR AI model lets artists relight video footage without manual 3D reconstruction.

Monday, July 21st, 2025

Rig and animate 3D characters for free with AccuRig 2.0

Free tool generates body and finger rigs for humanoid 3D characters. Check out its new animation browsing and retargeting system.

Thursday, July 17th, 2025

QuadSpinner releases Gaea 2.2

Major update to the next-gen terrain generator for games and VFX adds 10 new nodes, and updates over 20 more. Check out the new features.

Tuesday, July 15th, 2025

Unigine 2.20 adds support for 3D Gaussian Splatting

Check out the new features in this wide-ranging update to the real-time 3D engine. Available free for indie games and VFX projects.

Monday, July 14th, 2025

Download over 1,500 free PBR texture sets from LotPixel

Download scan-based PBR texture sets of common interior and exterior materials at up to 8K resolution. For commercial use.

Sunday, July 6th, 2025