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See the new features in the free alternative to Substance 3D Designer, including a Controlled Variations system for material variants.

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026

Path guiding library used in Blender, V-Ray and Disney's Hyperion renderer becomes open standards body's latest Sandbox project.

Monday, April 13th, 2026

AI-assisted animation tool gets new Root Motion system to automatically generate animation between key poses, plus new UE5 live link.

Thursday, April 9th, 2026

'Most feature-rich' update to the open-source rigging framework adds tools for automating Set Driven Key setup and blendshape transfer.

Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

Latest update to the popular suite of sketch-based retopology tools fixes a long-standing issue with Blender itself. Check out the other changes.

Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

VFX artist Marty Blumen's neat free add-on renders volumes like clouds and fire in Nuke without round-tripping to an external renderer.

Monday, March 30th, 2026

SDK for games and CG software developers now includes AMD's Redstone AI rendering technologies, including the new AI denoiser.

Saturday, March 28th, 2026

Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source 3D software, from the Raycast node to rendering and animation improvements.

Tuesday, March 17th, 2026

Open-source image editor gets Smart Object-like link layers, plus a new Vibrance filter, and better interoperability with Photoshop.

Monday, March 16th, 2026

Experimental version of the game engine capable of 'really good' looking ray tracing is now available on GitHub under a MIT license.

Friday, March 13th, 2026

Read our FAQs on what the buyout of the AI orchestration and generative AI tools firm means for users of Foundry apps like Nuke.

Thursday, February 19th, 2026

Check out the new features in former Lucasfilm developer Darby Johnston's open-source image viewer for VFX and animation work.

Sunday, February 15th, 2026

Intuitive free tool also lets you scatter objects on curves, surfaces or volumes, or place them by clicking in the viewport.

Wednesday, February 11th, 2026