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New path tracing render mode lets users render 3D characters inside Reallusion's software with 'near-offline render quality'.

Wednesday, July 29th, 2026

Check out the changes to the sculpting, retopology and painting tools - including a complete new node-based texturing system.

Thursday, July 23rd, 2026

Check out the new features in the 3D texture painting software, including new nodes for hex tiling, color grading and A/B comparisons.

Thursday, July 2nd, 2026

Check out the changes to the compositing software, including relighting Gaussian splats and Hydra 2.0 support in the 3D viewer.

Thursday, July 2nd, 2026

New Blender edition of the popular C4D particle and fluid simulation tool is free in beta for anyone who signs up for an Insydium account.

Saturday, June 6th, 2026

Now out of beta: discover key new features for VFX artists and colorists in the free color grading and editing app and its $295 Studio edition.

Thursday, June 4th, 2026

Check out the promising new GPU-accelerated sparse liquid solver from Theory Accelerated, creator of the popular Axiom fluid solver.

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026

Check out the new features in Maxon's 3D animation and motion graphics software, and register for the beta of the new iPad edition.

Thursday, April 16th, 2026

Lighting artist Borja Rama's amazing tool builds professional-quality gobos for visual effects, motion graphics and general CG work.

Monday, April 6th, 2026

Poly Hammer's Character DNA add-on lets you edit MetaHuman facial and body rigs inside Blender, including their RBF corrective poses.

Tuesday, March 31st, 2026

Generate growth animations for forms from corals to crystals with motion designer Gio Gargiulo's neat Houdini toolset, now free in beta.

Friday, January 30th, 2026

Get scan-based PBR texture sets at up to 8K resolution, and import them directly into Blender with the new LotPixel download manager.

Sunday, January 18th, 2026

Promising new tool based exports liquid sims in Alembic format for use in other CG software. Now updated to support spray emission.

Monday, December 1st, 2025