Check out promising open-source 2D animation tool enve
Free app provides an interesting range of features, particularly for vector and motion design work.
Friday, January 3rd, 2020
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Krita wins Epic MegaGrant
Digital painting tool becomes the latest open-source CG app to be backed by Epic Games, winning $25,000 to improve QA testing.
Thursday, December 19th, 2019
Get free VFX image viewer and playback tool DJV 2
Ex-Lucasfilm engineer Darby Johnston's shot review tool is engineered for serious VFX and animation work.
Sunday, November 24th, 2019
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.81
The leading open-source 3D package gets another big update. Check out the key features here.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
Xenko team ships Xenko 3.1
C#-based open-source 2D and 3D game engine gets its first major update since being made available under an MIT licence last year.
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
AMD to pay $120,000/year towards Blender development
CPU and GPU firm's sponsorship will help to fund Vulkan support within the open-source 3D tool.
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
LuxCoreRender 2.2 ships
Open-source renderer gets new GI cache system, Disney BRDF material and Open Image Denoise. Now compatible with Blender 2.80.
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019
Appleseed team releases appleseed 2.1
Open-source physically based renderer gets Cryptomatte support. neat new sampling control system.
Monday, September 16th, 2019
Download Toolchefs' open-source Maya animation tools
Updated: get a new camera lattice deformer free as well as the harmonic deformer, soft IK solver and key reducer.
Monday, September 9th, 2019
Screenspace creates pickers for Maya rigs that act as HUDs
Animal Logic software engineer Eddie Hoyle's neat free tool fixes rig controls to the Maya viewport.
Thursday, August 15th, 2019
Blender 2.80 ships
Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Ubisoft joins the Blender Development Fund
Ubisoft donates €30,000/year to fund development; will adopt Blender in its TV animation studio.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019
First release candidate for Blender 2.80 now available
The almost-final version of the long-awaited major update to Blender is now free to download.
Friday, July 12th, 2019