Reallusion releases Character Creator 4.54 and iClone 8.54
Character generator and real-time animation tool get updates to AI Smart Search, plus new lower-cost iContent licenses for stock assets.
Friday, June 27th, 2025
game art
Download free Houdini tools from SideFX's Project Skylark
Get custom tools for creating stylized game assets, including procedural generators for 3D buildings, bridges and clouds.
Thursday, June 26th, 2025
ScatterFlow adds physics-based scattering to Blender
Inexpensive add-on lets you dress environments quickly in Blender by spawning in 3D assets and letting them settle naturally under gravity.
Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
iCity 1.5 generates procedural 3D cities inside Blender
Plan out city layouts and have this neat tool populate them with 3D buildings. Check out the updates to road generation in the 1.5 release.
Monday, June 23rd, 2025
Get 330 free kitbash assets for post-apocalyptic environments
Download free assets from Oleg Ushenok's incredible new kitbash asset pack. FBX format, with PBR textures, for commercial use.
Sunday, June 22nd, 2025
Open 3D Foundation releases O3DE 25.05
Check out the changes to the open-source game engine, including updates to multi-GPU rendering, cinematics editing and XR workflow.
Friday, June 20th, 2025
Epic Games releases RealityScan 2.0 and RealityScan Mobile 1.7
Check out the new features in the desktop 3D scanning tool and the Android and iOS photogrammetry apps, all of them free to indie artists.
Wednesday, June 18th, 2025
Download Unreal Engine 2D animation plugin Odyssey for free
Get Praxinos's versatile 2D animation, storyboard and texture painting toolset for UE5 free from Fab, including for commercial use.
Sunday, June 15th, 2025
Tutorial: Practical Lighting for Production
Master professional CG lighting workflows with former Blizzard lighting lead Graham Cunningham's tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.
Saturday, June 14th, 2025
Leopoly adds voxel sculpting to Shapelab 2025
Summer 2025 update to the VR modeling app expands the new voxel engine for blocking out 3D forms. See the other new features.
Friday, June 13th, 2025
Master Architectural Design for Games using Blender & UE5
Discover how to create game environments grounded in architectural principles with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Monday, June 9th, 2025
Autodesk adds AI animation tool MotionMaker to Maya 2026.1
Check out the new features in the 3D modeling and animation software, including AI animation and modular character rigging in Bifrost.
Thursday, June 5th, 2025
You can now sell MetaHumans, or use them in Unity or Godot
Epic's MetaHuman framework for creating 3D characters for games and VFX is out of early access. See its new features - and its new EULA.
Wednesday, June 4th, 2025