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Abstract releases InstaMAT 2025

Major update sees the hotly tipped 3D texture painting and material authoring tools leave early access. Still free for indie artists.

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025

QuadSpinner releases Gaea 2.2

Major update to the next-gen terrain generator for games and VFX adds 10 new nodes, and updates over 20 more. Check out the new features.

Tuesday, July 15th, 2025

Esri releases CityEngine 2025.0

Check out the new features in the procedural city generation software, including the new Street Designer for creating complex road setups.

Friday, June 27th, 2025

Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 5.2

Check out the latest features in the popular Maya fur and feathers plugin, including new nodes for resolving intersections.

Monday, March 24th, 2025

Cell Fluids 2.0 for Blender is out

Popular lightweight Blender fluid simulation add-on now lets you art direct simulations with guide curves. Check out the other new features.

Tuesday, December 17th, 2024

Esri releases CityEngine 2024.1

Check out the new features in the procedural city-generation software, including Boolean operations and two-point perspective correction.

Sunday, December 1st, 2024

Autodesk releases Bifrost for Maya 2.11

Maya's multiphysics plugin gets experimental new modular rigging toolset, plus the option to generate variant simulations in the cloud.

Saturday, October 12th, 2024