Insydium releases Fused 2025.4 with new animation toolset Jidou
Check out the changes to the popular set of Cinema 4D add-ons, also including GPU-accelerated smoke and fire simulation in NeXus.
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
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Pixar releases RenderMan 27.1
Latest update to the production renderer extends support for MaterialX Lama and checkpointing inside RenderMan XPU.
Sunday, December 7th, 2025
Maxon releases Red Giant 2026.1 and 2026.2
Check out the new features in the set of tools for motion graphics and VFX artists, including generation of depth maps from video.
Sunday, December 7th, 2025
Boris FX releases Optics 2026 with AI-powered facial masking
Check out the new AI technologies in the standalone app and Photoshop plugin for adding cinematic effects to still images.
Sunday, December 7th, 2025
Black Friday, Cyber Week and holiday 2025 deals for CG artists
Find great seasonal discounts on CG software, hardware and assets. Deals available in mid-December include Huion, Wacom, Xencelabs.
Friday, November 28th, 2025
Sneak peek: the new FLIP fluid solver in Insydium's NeXus
See the neat new liquid simulation tools in the GPU-based Cinema 4D particle effects add-on, ahead of their release next month.
Thursday, November 27th, 2025
BiteTheBytes releases World Creator 2025.3
Check out the new features in the terrain generator, including ORBX export to OctaneRender and a new Godot integration plugin.
Wednesday, November 26th, 2025
Boris FX releases Sapphire 2026
Check out the changes to the effects plugins for compositing and video editing apps, including this new analogue film burn effect.
Tuesday, November 25th, 2025
Tutorial: Advanced Facial Blendshape Networks
Discover how to create blendshape-based facial rigs for VFX and game cinematics with The Gnomon Workshop's new masterclass.
Saturday, November 22nd, 2025
Nevercenter releases Silo 2026.0 with the Silo Blender Bridge
Lightweight 3D modeling and UV mapping software gets new plugin transferring edits made to a model to and from Blender.
Thursday, November 20th, 2025
Pixar releases RenderMan 27
'Most significant release in a decade' for the heavyweight production renderer makes RenderMan XPU ready for final-frame output.
Friday, November 14th, 2025
Unreal Engine 5.7 is here: see five key features for CG artists
See our pick of the features in the latest version of Unreal Engine, from the new procedural plant editor to updates to MetaHumans.
Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
Boris FX adds AMD GPU acceleration to Sapphire with HIP
[Sponsored] The open-source toolkit helped the VFX tools developer harness the power of AMD GPUs in its Emmy award-winning plugins.
Wednesday, November 5th, 2025