Light Engine releases Light Tracer Render 2.6
Check out the new features in the physically based GPU renderer. You can use it for free in a web browser.
Friday, March 17th, 2023
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JangaFX ships EmberGen 1.0
Check out the new features in the first production release of the hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulator for games and VFX work.
Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
KeenTools ships GeoTracker for After Effects 2023.1
Intuitive real-time 3D tracking plugin for After Effects gets built-in head model for facial tracking.
Wednesday, March 8th, 2023
Stability.ai releases its Stable Diffusion add-on for Blender
Stability for Blender puts the AI image generator into Blender - for animation as well as still images.
Monday, March 6th, 2023
Check out the new Blender 4.x release schedule
Open-source 3D software to move to three releases per year to ease pressure on developers and TDs.
Monday, February 27th, 2023
Free tool: export_masks for Substance 3D Painter
Get Wes McDermott's handy free add-on for... well, exporting layer masks from Substance 3D Painter.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
Free tool: Hextile for Houdini and Unreal Engine
Mohsen Tabasi's award-winning free tool minimises visible repeats by tiling textures using a hex grid.
Monday, February 13th, 2023
Download free After Effects image export script aeJPG
Handy free tool lets you take screenshots from After Effects' Composition Panel in one click.
Monday, February 13th, 2023
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.13
Update makes Intel's OIDN denoiser and Cinema 4D's Brick and Tile shaders available to all of the renderer's host applications.
Thursday, February 9th, 2023
Adobe releases After Effects 23.2
Compositing app gets support for OCIO and ACES colour managment for VFX and movie editing projects.
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
Tyson Ibele releases tyFlow 1.012 for 3ds Max
Major update adds complete new terrain-generation system to the Max particle and physics add-on.
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
Download ProductionCrate's new free VFX starter pack
Get 50 stock FX clips, including explosions, fire and magic effects. ProRes/H.264 format, up to 4K, for commercial use.
Sunday, February 5th, 2023
Spline Dynamics releases Scatter Tools for 3ds Max
Neat new set dressing plugin can automatically add ornaments and books to the furniture in a scene.
Friday, February 3rd, 2023