You can now sell MetaHumans, or use them in Unity or Godot

Epic's MetaHuman framework for creating 3D characters for games and VFX is out of early access. See its new features - and its new EULA.

Wednesday, June 4th, 2025

Baga River Generator lets you draw rivers into Blender scenes

Neat add-on lets you create good-looking rivers, complete with surrounding terrain, simply by drawing a path in the viewport.

Thursday, May 29th, 2025

Smart Model Editor lets you model non-destructively in Maya

Özgür Yildirim's interesting plugin records the changes made to a model over time, then lets you edit or delete operations individually.

Friday, May 9th, 2025

Been laid off? JangaFX is giving you its tools free for six months

Real-time tools developer is offering temporary licenses of EmberGen, LiquiGen and GeoGen to games and VFX artists who are between jobs.

Friday, May 9th, 2025

3DGS Render 3.0 lets you paint 3D Gaussian Splats in Blender

3D scanning firm Kiri Innovations' free add-on now lets you paint onto 3DGS data inside Blender, including through texture images.

Friday, March 28th, 2025

SuperSplat 2.0 lets you create flythroughs of 3D Gaussian Splats

Free, open-source online tool for viewing and editing 3DGS data can now add camera animations to existing scans.

Monday, February 17th, 2025

After Effects' latest beta lets you preview HDR comps

Check out the latest beta features in the compositing and motion graphics app, including the option to preview HLG and PQ video.

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025

Terragen Sky now lets you paint clouds into the sky directly

Check out the neat new Sky Paint tools in the December 2024 update to the sky-creation tool for VFX, visualization and games work.

Friday, December 20th, 2024

3DGS Render 2.0 now lets you edit 3D Gaussian Splats in Blender

3D scanning firm Kiri Innovations' free add-on lets you edit 3DGS scan data inside Blender, and apply simple animated effects.

Tuesday, November 26th, 2024

10 subtle tricks to improve your character animation

Discover 10 things you can do today to improve your character animation work with DreamWorks animator Adrien Liv's expert tips.

Tuesday, October 29th, 2024

New Substance 3D Viewer lets you work with 3D assets in Photoshop

Adobe's new standalone app lets users drag and drop 3D models into Photoshop and have them appear as editable Smart Objects.

Monday, October 14th, 2024

Blender 4.3 lets you use Geometry Nodes with Grease Pencil

Check out the new features in Grease Pencil 3, the long-awaited overhaul of Blender's 2D animation toolset, now available in beta builds.

Monday, October 7th, 2024

Shapelab 2024 lets you sculpt on desktop as well as in VR

Updated: the new desktop mode in Leopoly's promising digital sculpting app now supports stylus as well as mouse and keyboard.

Thursday, October 3rd, 2024