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Check out the new tools in Maxon's Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and VFX suites of effects plugins.

Tuesday, April 4th, 2023

See the crazy motion graphics effects created by the renderer's distance shader, supported in 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini & Maya.

Thursday, March 30th, 2023

Updated: See what's new in Maxon's suites of effects plugins, now including Universe 2023.1.

Saturday, December 10th, 2022

Open-source digital painting app gets new fill options for colouring line art, plus support for JPEG XL files and Adobe ASE colour palettes.

Saturday, August 20th, 2022

Inkscape 1.2 ships

Open-source vector design tool gets batch image export, support for multi-page documents, plus a lot of workflow improvements.

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022

GPU-based terrain generation app gets new Fast Render mode, plus bridge tools for Unity and UE4.

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022

Check out the new features in the next-gen motion graphics software, including new shaders and integrated JavaScript scripting.

Wednesday, March 30th, 2022

Popular Photoshop colour wheel and colour picker plugin gets HUD opacity settings; control sliders for more colour spaces, including Lab.

Saturday, November 20th, 2021

Wide-ranging update adds one-click object masking, AI filters for concept art and matte painting, and new anti-image-theft features.

Friday, October 29th, 2021

Check out the new filters, brush effects and colour sampling features in this sizeable update to the iPad painting app.

Monday, September 21st, 2020

Check out the new features in Foundry's unusual hybrid 2D/3D app for creating and visualising variations for product designs.

Friday, May 22nd, 2020

First subscriber-only update to Cinema 4D overhauls the UV unwrapping tools and rolls out Maxon's new viewport architecture.

Tuesday, April 21st, 2020