Faceform releases Wrap 2025.9 and Wrap4D 2025.9
Check out the new features in the topology transfer tools for creating digital doubles and blendshapes from 3D scans of actors.
Thursday, October 2nd, 2025
3D scanning
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2025.2 with Nanite support
Major update to the real-time visualization app adds support for Nanite and the Unreal VCam virtual camera app. Free to indie artists.
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
Kiri Engine 4.0 is out for Android and iOS
Mobile 3D scanning app now lets you export an unlimited number of photogrammetry or Lidar scans for free. Check out the other changes.
Monday, September 8th, 2025
3D Gaussian Splats are being added to the glTF standard
New collaboration between Khronos Group and the Open Geospatial Consortium paves the way towards support for 3DGS data in glTF files.
Friday, August 29th, 2025
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 5.1
Check out the changes to the 3D scanning app, including new Auto Tiling and Fold Removal filters, and the option to flatten material layers.
Saturday, August 9th, 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
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
Pilgway releases 3DCoat 2025 and 3DCoatTextura 2025
Check out the new features in the 3D sculpting and retopology software, and its cut-down edition for texturing work.
Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
Epic Games releases RealityScan 2.0 and RealityScan Mobile 1.7
Check out the new features in the desktop 3D scanning tool and the Android and iOS photogrammetry apps, all of them free to indie artists.
Wednesday, June 18th, 2025
Epic Games to rebrand RealityCapture as RealityScan 2.0
Desktop photogrammetry software to be unified with Epic's free 3D scanning app for Android and iOS. Check out its upcoming features.
Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
How PFX created a continuous 3.5-minute VFX shot for Locked
Key shot from the carjacking thriller was created using 3DEqualizer, Houdini and Nuke from 360-degree footage and Lidar scans.
Thursday, May 8th, 2025
Kiri Engine 3.14 adds AI-enhanced Lidar scanning
Mobile 3D scanning app uses new machine learning techniques to refine raw environment scans captured on iPhone and iPad Pros.
Wednesday, April 30th, 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