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Decoded's frustration-saving add-on adds new features to Blender's camera system, now including a new auto-focus system for renders.

Sunday, May 4th, 2025

Big update to the effects plugins for video editing and compositing apps adds AI matte generation and GPU acceleration on AMD hardware.

Friday, May 2nd, 2025

Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Argentum Studio's in-house tool simplifies the process of lighting and rendering hair and fur in Unreal Engine 5.5. Free for a month.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

Check out the new motion-capture workflows enabled by the free update to the real-time animation tool and its paid Timecode plugin.

Tuesday, April 15th, 2025

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

Check out the new features in the free update to the popular Blender UV editing toolset for games and visual effects work.

Tuesday, March 25th, 2025

Check out the latest features in the popular Maya fur and feathers plugin, including new nodes for resolving intersections.

Monday, March 24th, 2025

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

Updated for version 1.2: Intuitive layer-based texture painting add-on for Blender now supports shader layers and texture baking.

Wednesday, February 12th, 2025

New native After Effects plugin provides a fast, efficient way to create IK rigs for arms and legs for character animation.

Tuesday, February 11th, 2025

Handy free Blender add-on displays an estimated time and progress bar for entire animations being rendered, not just individual frames.

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

Maya animation toolkit for VFX and games gets new tools developed for Red9's character rigging work on the latest Sonic movie.

Tuesday, January 28th, 2025