VeeDynamics 'turbocharges' elastic body simulation in Blender
Simulate thousands of rubbery objects in near-real time with Łukasz Czyż's plugin implementing Vertex Block Descent methods in Blender.
Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
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See JangaFX's first demo of IlluGen, its app for in-game VFX
Check out the feature set of the much-anticipated tool for creating VFX assets for games, its workflow, its release date, and its likely price.
Thursday, April 17th, 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
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
Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 5.2
Check out the latest features in the popular Maya fur and feathers plugin, including new nodes for resolving intersections.
Monday, March 24th, 2025
Assetify 2.1 converts Blender assets to game-ready formats
Asset baking and export add-on can now bake PBR textures from any Blender shader set-up, not just the Principled BSDF shader.
Saturday, March 15th, 2025
Check out open-source Blender character generator MPFB 2
New free plugin based on veteran standalone app MakeHuman creates custom 3D characters, complete with skin and clothing.
Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
Tutorial: Creating Production-Ready Hero Assets Using Mari
Master professional asset development workflows for VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's advanced-level tutorial.
Sunday, March 9th, 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
Maxon releases Redshift 2025.3
Renderer gets better multiscattering in volumes, USD procedural support in Maya, and initial support for GeForce 50 Series GPUs.
Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Check out this GPU-accelerated Houdini Skin Slide Deformer
DNEG TD Mengya Zhang's OpenCL-based tool generates realistic skin sliding without tissue simulation. Free to try on personal projects.
Monday, January 20th, 2025
Faceform releases Wrap 2024.11 and Wrap4D 2024.11
Check out the new features in the topology transfer tools for creating digital doubles and blendshapes from 3D scans of actors.
Friday, December 27th, 2024
KeenTools releases FaceTracker for Blender
Much-anticipated facial mocap plugin for Blender gets its official release. Now supports animation retargeting to Rigify rigs.
Friday, November 22nd, 2024