Trimble releases SketchUp 2025.0

Check out the new features in the architectural modeling app, also used in concept art, including HDRI lighting and PBR materials.

Monday, March 3rd, 2025

Tutorial: Dynamic Cloth Simulation for Production

Master character effects workflows for animation, cinematics and VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Houdini tutorial.

Sunday, March 2nd, 2025

Check out free Blender scattering add-on OpenScatter

Promising open-source add-on lets you scatter plants and rocks in your scenes according to elevation, texture masks or guide curves.

Sunday, March 2nd, 2025

CETA Software launches Artist Access

Check out the new time-tracking tools in the cloud-based production management platform for VFX. Free for six months to startup studios.

Friday, February 28th, 2025

Foundry releases Nuke 16.0

Next major update to Nuke introduces native multishot compositing, and improves roto performance and BlinkScript editing.

Friday, February 28th, 2025

Boris FX releases SynthEyes 2025

3D tracking and match-moving software gets new multi-export system, AI-based roto masking, and 3D head mesh for head tracking.

Thursday, February 27th, 2025

Plastic Software releases Plasticity 2025.1

Check out the changes to the intuitive NURBS modeler, including a revamped interface, and a new Section Analysis command.

Wednesday, February 26th, 2025

Technicolor Group begins to shut down operations

Financial problems of the owner of Mikros Animation and VFX Oscar-winners MPC and The Mill threaten thousands of artists' jobs worldwide.

Tuesday, February 25th, 2025

Download four free VDB clouds from VFX Assets

Get free volumetric 3D clouds for previs, motion graphics and VFX in CG apps and game engines like Blender, Maya and Unreal Engine.

Tuesday, February 25th, 2025

Artlist discontinues the FXhome apps: HitFilm and Imerge dead

Video editing, compositing and VFX app and still image editor had over 6 million users prior to buyout and switch to subscription pricing.

Monday, February 24th, 2025

Tutorial: Introduction to Lighting & Compositing for Cinematics

Master workflows used in cinematics and animation production with The Gnomon Workshop's improvers' guide.

Saturday, February 22nd, 2025

Adobe to raise the price of Substance 3D subscriptions

Cost of Substance 3D Texturing, Collection and Teams subscriptions to rise from 9-25% in March 2025. Read our FAQs about the changes.

Friday, February 21st, 2025

Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 5.0

Check out the new features in the 3D capture software, including path tracing in the 3D View and support for HP's Z Captis scanner.

Friday, February 21st, 2025