Free tool: HeliumX Lite for After Effects
New free tool creates animated 3D text and page turn effects inside Adobe's compositing software.
Wednesday, April 19th, 2023
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Pixar releases RenderMan 25
Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
Boris FX releases Sapphire 2023.5
Check out the new features in the suite of effects plugins for compositing and editing software.
Saturday, April 15th, 2023
Graswald ships Gscatter 0.10
Free Blender object scattering tool gets its 'most powerful update yet'. Check out what's new in it, and in Graswald's online 3D plant library.
Sunday, April 9th, 2023
Maxon releases Spring 2023 Red Giant updates
Check out the new tools in Maxon's Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and VFX suites of effects plugins.
Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
Ephere releases Ornatrix Maya v4
Maya hair plugin's Graft Grooms system makes it possible to create entire hair grooms in a few clicks.
Friday, March 31st, 2023
Autodesk ships Arnold 7.2.1
See the crazy motion graphics effects created by the renderer's distance shader, supported in 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini & Maya.
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
RandoMixer randomises your 3ds Max scenes
Neat new plugin quickly generates variant looks for 3D models, 3D scenes - or even 3D characters.
Tuesday, March 28th, 2023
Get free Cesium plugins for UE5, O3DE, Unity, Omniverse
Open-source geospatial data plugins create full-scale replicas of the Earth inside game engines.
Saturday, March 25th, 2023
MetaShoot puts a virtual photo studio in Unreal Engine
New plugin makes rendering model turntables or product visualisations inside UE5 a one-click process.
Friday, March 24th, 2023
Anastasiy releases Magic Squire 7.0
Photoshop brush organiser now lets you pick custom colours and backgrounds for brush thumbnails.
Friday, March 24th, 2023
Epic Games announces Fab
Unreal Engine, ArtStation and Sketchfab marketplaces to merge into giant 'open market' with assets for all DCC apps & game engines.
Thursday, March 23rd, 2023
cebas releases thinkingParticles 7.3
3ds Max multiphysics plugin's new ME-L scripting language lets you create custom particle simulations.
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023