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Houdini

Check out the latest features in the production renderer, including support for Windows on ARM and hardware ray tracing on AMD GPUs.

Tuesday, April 21st, 2026

Path guiding library used in Blender, V-Ray and Disney's Hyperion renderer becomes open standards body's latest Sandbox project.

Monday, April 13th, 2026

Check out the changes to KitBash3D and Greyscalegorilla's asset browser, plus the free 3D vehicles, buildings and materials available through it.

Sunday, April 12th, 2026

Check out the interesting high-performance vegetation modeling toolset for games and VFX. Now available for commercial use.

Friday, April 10th, 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

AI-powered browser-based tool generates idles and movement cycles from text prompts. You can export five per month in FBX format.

Friday, April 3rd, 2026

New version of the production renderer includes 40 free hours per month on the tech preview of cloud rendering service Flow Render.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2026

Discover how to create an action sequence in UE5 with DNEG artist Kosuke Iwasaki's free intermediate tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.

Monday, March 23rd, 2026

New real-time engine replaces Redshift RT, and was developed in parallel with the new Vectorworks edition of the renderer.

Thursday, March 19th, 2026

Big update to the terrain generation tool for games and VFX adds new features, cuts prices, and lifts the revenue cap on the Indie edition.

Wednesday, March 18th, 2026

Check out the latest features in the free update to the industry-standard set of add-on tools for Foundry's 3D texture painting software.

Thursday, March 12th, 2026

New Blender Fractals pack generates lightweight, animatable 3D fractals for motion graphics, VFX or illustration work.

Wednesday, March 11th, 2026

Read our FAQs on Wonder 3D, the new text-to-3D and image-to-3D AI model in the online VFX platform formerly known as Wonder Studio.

Thursday, March 5th, 2026