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Get free smoke and fire FX as 2K ProRes files or sequences of VDB files optimized for rendering in Blender. For commercial use.

Sunday, January 12th, 2025

Check out the new features in the modeling and texturing iPad app, including support for procedural objects and projection painting.

Thursday, December 26th, 2024

Updated 24 December: Find discounts on CG hardware and software available until New Year, including 3DCoat, FumeFX and Yeti.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2024

3D animation and motion graphics software gets revamped Boolean modeling system, plus updates to simulation and USD workflows.

Thursday, December 5th, 2024

Now available: read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software, from Grease Pencil 3 to updates to Eevee and Cycles.

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024

Hair and fur plugin gets new tools for 'grafting' procedural hair grooms onto a character, and 'boxing' operators into single modifiers.

Friday, November 15th, 2024

Read our pick of the features in this huge update to the game engine, from MegaLights to character rigging, animation and rendering.

Thursday, November 14th, 2024

Update to the 3D animation tool reworks Boolean modeling, and introduces OpenPBR support and interesting new simulation features.

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024

Maya's multiphysics plugin gets experimental new modular rigging toolset, plus the option to generate variant simulations in the cloud.

Saturday, October 12th, 2024

Check out the new features in Grease Pencil 3, the long-awaited overhaul of Blender's 2D animation toolset, now available in beta builds.

Monday, October 7th, 2024

Major update to the gaseous fluid simulator and multiphysics plugin adds new GPU-accelerated liquid simulation toolset.

Thursday, September 12th, 2024

Check out the new features in the GPU-accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver, including support for height fields as collision sources.

Wednesday, September 4th, 2024

Discover which NVIDIA GPU is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests, including Blender, Maya and UE5.

Friday, August 30th, 2024