Get VFX artist Thomas Marcos' free Blender clouds shader
Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
motion graphics
Tutorial: Creature Animation for Games
Discover how to animate run cycles, combat and death moves in Maya with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly tutorial.
Monday, April 21st, 2025
LightWave Digital releases LightWave 2025
Check out the new features in the 3D software, including viewport path tracing, a new Toon Filter, and new rigging and animation tools.
Friday, April 18th, 2025
Character Creator gets new free MetaTailor plugin
Add-on lets you send characters from Character Creator to MetaTailor with one-click, fit 3D clothing to them, then send them back to CC4.
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
Leopoly adds voxel sculpting to Shapelab 2025
Version 2025 v2.0 of the VR modeling app adds a new voxel engine for blocking out 3D forms. Check out the other new features.
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Check out new 3ds Max UV unwrapping plugin UVReactor
Updated: Features added in the 1.1 and 1.2 releases include Multi Object Mode, UDIM packing, and the new UVReactor modifier.
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
Reallusion releases iClone 8.53 with timecode support
Check out the new motion-capture workflows enabled by the free update to the real-time animation tool and its paid Timecode plugin.
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
RandomControl releases Maverick Indie and Maverick Studio 2025.1
See the the new features in the GPU renderers, including better USD support and the option to import and render skinned characters.
Monday, April 14th, 2025
Tutorial: Creating Photorealistic 3D Environments
Create portfolio-worthy 3D terrain in World Creator and Blender with the help of The Gnomon Workshop's intermediate-level tutorial.
Saturday, April 12th, 2025
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.22
Check out the latest features in the VR modeling software. New Connector plugin syncing Modeler to Unreal Engine 5 now in beta.
Friday, April 11th, 2025
F12 releases The Grove 2.2 for Blender and Houdini
Popular 3D tree generator gets new Skeleton tool for creating animation rigs, and new workflows to reduce tree poly counts for use in games.
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Reallusion unveils Character Creator 5
Check out the new features, price and release date for the next major update to the 3D character creation software for games and VFX.
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Get versions of the free Thinkbox tools that work with 3ds Max 2026
Get new versions of particle tools Krakatoa MX, Frost MX, Stoke MX and XMesh MX recompiled to support current versions of 3ds Max.
Thursday, April 10th, 2025