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See what's new in the promising alternative to the Substance tools for texture painting and material authoring. Free to indie artists.

Thursday, March 12th, 2026

Veteran terrain generation software for games and VFX to get support for Macs and Linux systems after 20+ years as a Windows-only tool.

Wednesday, March 11th, 2026

Popular 3ds Max particle and multiphysics add-on for VFX and motion graphics gets neat new GPU-based Zenith fluid engine.

Thursday, March 5th, 2026

See the latest features in Pixar's production renderer, including new Stylized Looks nodes for artistic lighting and hatching effects.

Saturday, February 28th, 2026

Free edition of the renderer is licensed for personal use and tools development. Compatible with Blender, Houdini, Katana and Maya.

Saturday, February 28th, 2026

Check out the latest features in the motion design app just acquired by Canva, including a new Mesh solver for creating organic growth effects.

Wednesday, February 25th, 2026

Motion design app is the 'missing piece' of Canva's Affinity design software, now available free. Read our FAQs on what it means for users.

Wednesday, February 25th, 2026

Read our FAQs on what the buyout of the AI orchestration and generative AI tools firm means for users of Foundry apps like Nuke.

Thursday, February 19th, 2026

Check out the new features in this powerful set of geometry optimization tools for games and VFX work. Free to indie artists.

Tuesday, February 17th, 2026

Handy rig-building toolset can now warp all the blendshapes for one character to another with different topology. Free for personal use.

Thursday, February 5th, 2026

New add-on adds DaVinci Resolve-inspired controls for cinematic color grades, film grain and lens effects in Blender's compositor. Free edition.

Tuesday, January 27th, 2026

Latest update to the kitbashing software lets you work on more than one object in the free version, and lifts restrictions on object Variants.

Tuesday, January 20th, 2026

Check out the new features in this major update to the GPU renderer and real-time visualization tool and its new lightweight edition.

Thursday, January 15th, 2026