Maxon releases Red Giant 2026.0 and Universe 2026.0
Check out the new features in the suites of tools for motion graphics and VFX artists, including new options for DaVinci Resolve users.
Friday, September 12th, 2025
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Stock asset firms KitBash3D and Greyscalegorilla merge
No changes expected to pricing or support, and both brands continue to operate under their original names. Find full details here.
Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
Ephere releases Ornatrix 3ds Max 9
Check out the changes to the 3ds Max hair plugin for games and VFX, including a new Warp Roots modifier to help groom feathers.
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
Ephere releases Ornatrix Maya 5
Check out the changes to the Maya plugin for creating hair and fur for games and VFX, including fast new workflows for braiding hair.
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
Reallusion releases iClone 8.6
Check out the new features in the animation software, including support for Character Creator 5, and new export presets for UE5.
Thursday, August 28th, 2025
Reallusion releases Character Creator 5
Check out the new features in this major update to the 3D character creation app, from the new HD base characters to the new Maya plugin.
Thursday, August 28th, 2025
Wacom becomes Blender's latest Corporate Patron
Wacom ups its funding for Blender by €210,000/year in partnership to develop 'next-gen" Blender experience on Android tablets.
Monday, August 25th, 2025
RE:Vision Effects releases video and animation upscaler REZUp 2
Check out the new machine learning models in the pro upscaling plugin for compositing and video editing applications.
Friday, August 22nd, 2025
MatPlus puts Substance 3D-style texture painting inside Blender
Promising hard-surface-focused add-on implements Substance 3D Painter-style layer-based texture painting inside Blender.
Friday, August 15th, 2025
UVPackmaster 3.4 for Blender adds one-click UV repacking
Check out the latest features in the popular UV packing plugin, including one-click Auto Repacking, and support for texel density.
Thursday, August 14th, 2025
KeenTools releases KeenTools 2025.2 for Blender and Nuke
Minor update to the intuitive tracking and head reconstruction plugins adds support for Blender 4.5 and Nuke 16.0. See all of the changes.
Tuesday, August 12th, 2025
Turn a custom ZBrush model into a game-ready character with CC4
[Sponsored] Games artist Francis Lamoureux reveals how he uses Reallusion's Character Creator to convert sculpts to game characters.
Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
Houdini plant-generation toolkit Natsura is now in early access
Check out the interesting high-performance vegetation modeling toolset for games and VFX, used on SideFX's Project Elderwood demo.
Monday, July 28th, 2025