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Intriguing new tool lets you create or edit Unreal Engine MetaHuman characters directly inside Blender. Now available in beta.

Monday, March 31st, 2025

Check out the neat new Sky Paint tools in the December 2024 update to the sky-creation tool for VFX, visualization and games work.

Friday, December 20th, 2024

New deep learning framework built on OpenVDB is intended to enable developers and researchers to build city-scale generative AI models.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2024

Set of AI tools for games artists and developers gets new generative AI model for its text-to-PBR-material system. Find more details here.

Wednesday, March 6th, 2024

Online tool for generating 360° environments from text prompts or sketches now generates 3D world meshes as well as 2D skyboxes.

Tuesday, December 26th, 2023

Streamlined tool for generating skies for use in matte paintings or as environment maps gets 32K HDR export, better live sync with UE5.

Tuesday, November 21st, 2023

Interesting new app lets users create custom game content from an online library of CC0 assets.

Friday, June 23rd, 2023

Streamlined app for generating photorealistic CG skies, including 360° HDRIs, is out in early access.

Monday, December 19th, 2022

Now shipping: long-awaited modular rigging add-on creates rigs for characters of all body shapes.

Monday, November 21st, 2022

Check out the latest features in the lightweight 3D modelling software and its new real-time renderer.

Monday, October 3rd, 2022

Suite of cloud-based services including Omniverse App Streaming goes into early access.

Tuesday, September 20th, 2022

Unusual physics-based animation software gets global rotation kinematics, improved auto-posing.

Monday, September 19th, 2022

Physics-based animation software gets Constraints system for weapons, plus new Node Editor and Python API for technical artists.

Saturday, April 16th, 2022