Check out free Blender scattering add-on OpenScatter
Promising open-source add-on lets you scatter plants and rocks in your scenes according to elevation, texture masks or guide curves.
Sunday, March 2nd, 2025
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PhotoLine 25 now reads Cryptomatte data
Check out the new features in the sub-$100 image editing app, including support for Cryptomatte data when retouching 3D renders.
Friday, January 24th, 2025
Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 5.0
Check out the new features in the popular Maya fur and feathers plugin, including a new production-ready Viewport 2.0 hair shader.
Tuesday, March 5th, 2024
Blender Foundation unveils Project Baklava
Check out Blender's work-in-progress layered animation system, including the roadmap, tech demos - and some very early UI mockups.
Friday, February 16th, 2024
Nevercenter releases Silo 2023.4 and Milo 2023.1
Check out the new features in the lightweight 3D modelling app and its UE5-based real-time renderer.
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023
Computerinsel releases PhotoLine 24
Check out the new features in the sub-$100 image editing software, including better layer workflow.
Wednesday, July 12th, 2023
F12 releases The Grove 2.0 for Blender and Houdini
Big update makes the popular 3D tree-generation tool available to Houdini as well as Blender users.
Wednesday, July 5th, 2023
Mercenaries Engineering releases Rumba 1.2
Innovative character animation app gets revamped animation layer system, neat animatable sculpt tool.
Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.0
Major update to the material authoring tool adds intuitive new AI-assisted 3D scanning toolset.
Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
The Grove Release 11 is out
Check out the new features in F12's biologically accurate Blender-based tree generator, like the new Roots tool and breeze animation.
Friday, July 29th, 2022
Basefount ships Animcraft 2
Unusual app for building reusable animation libraries gets nonlinear motion editing and new facial rigging and animation toolsets.
Saturday, January 15th, 2022
Computerinsel releases PhotoLine 23.5
See what's new in the the sub-$100 image editor, including new image stitching and mesh gradient tools.
Monday, December 6th, 2021
Mercenaries Engineering releases Rumba 1.1
Maya-friendly character animation software adds USD import, audio and video editing, new Picker Tool.
Friday, October 22nd, 2021