Tutorial: Creating Photorealistic 3D Environments

Create portfolio-worthy 3D terrain in World Creator and Blender with the help of The Gnomon Workshop's intermediate-level tutorial.

Saturday, April 12th, 2025

Foundry unveils new ICVFX and virtual production tool Nuke Stage

New purpose-built app is designed for playing back environments onto LED walls. Read our FAQs on its workflow and requirements.

Friday, April 11th, 2025

Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.22

Check out the latest features in the VR modeling software. New Connector plugin syncing Modeler to Unreal Engine 5 now in beta.

Friday, April 11th, 2025

F12 releases The Grove 2.2 for Blender and Houdini

Popular 3D tree generator gets new Skeleton tool for creating animation rigs, and new workflows to reduce tree poly counts for use in games.

Thursday, April 10th, 2025

Get versions of the free Thinkbox tools that work with 3ds Max 2026

Get new versions of particle tools Krakatoa MX, Frost MX, Stoke MX and XMesh MX recompiled to support current versions of 3ds Max.

Thursday, April 10th, 2025

Get 150+ free modular workshop assets for Unreal Engine

Get Leartes Studios' Carpenter's Workshop Environment pack of 3D assets for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace. Commercial use.

Tuesday, April 8th, 2025

Free tool: get character animation from Cinema 4D to Unreal Engine

Big update to the Cineware for Unreal plugin makes it possible to transfer rigged and animated characters to Unreal Engine 5.5.

Sunday, April 6th, 2025

Maxon releases Red Giant 2024.4 and Universe 2025.3

Updates to the effects plugins for compositing and video editing apps extend support for DaVinci Resolve, but end support for Vegas Pro.

Friday, April 4th, 2025

Nekki releases Cascadeur 2025.1 with AI-based Inbetweening

Innovative animation app gets new AI system for generating realistic motion connecting two poses. Check out the other new features.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2025

Maxon releases Redshift 2025.4

Big update to the renderer adds OpenPBR support. See the other new features for 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya users.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2025

Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2025.2

3D animation and motion graphics app gets integrated Spline Modifiers and updates to particle simulation. Liquid simulation 'coming soon'.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2025

Maxon releases ZBrush 2025.2

Check out the changes to the digital sculpting tool, including updates to poly modeling system ZModeler and new Redshift materials.

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025

Maxon adds ZModeler and UV Master to ZBrush for iPad 2025.3

Significant update to the new iPad edition of the digital sculpting app adds long-awaited poly modeling and UV unwrapping toolsets.

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025