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Light Painting

Check out the latest features in the real-time lighting design tool, including energy-conserving light scaling, and support for OCIO 2.5.

Thursday, January 15th, 2026

Big update to the UE5 product and portfolio rendering plugin also lets you generate virtual scan data for use in 3D Gaussian Splatting apps.

Tuesday, October 14th, 2025

Updated: neat plugin formerly known as MetaShoot creates portfolio renders and visualizations in a few clicks. See what's new in Atlux λ 1.1.

Thursday, March 14th, 2024

Sparseal's $20 iPad app includes features usually only found in more expensive desktop software, like simultaneous multichannel painting.

Thursday, February 26th, 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

Promising browser-based app gets a new Classic editor for video editing, as well as editors for 2D and 3D motion design.

Tuesday, February 24th, 2026

Long-awaited update to the popular Baga Ivy Generator plugin for VFX and arch viz makes it possible to create plant growth animations.

Monday, February 23rd, 2026

Check out the new features in the GPU-accelerated production renderer for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya.

Monday, February 23rd, 2026