5 key features for CG artists in Godot 4.4
Discover five key new features in the open-source game engine, including updates to shading, lighting, animation and physics.
Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
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Trimble releases SketchUp 2025.0
Check out the new features in the architectural modeling app, also used in concept art, including HDRI lighting and PBR materials.
Monday, March 3rd, 2025
Check out free Blender scattering add-on OpenScatter
Promising open-source add-on lets you scatter plants and rocks in your scenes according to elevation, texture masks or guide curves.
Sunday, March 2nd, 2025
Foundry releases Nuke 16.0
Next major update to Nuke introduces native multishot compositing, and improves roto performance and BlinkScript editing.
Friday, February 28th, 2025
Boris FX releases SynthEyes 2025
3D tracking and match-moving software gets new multi-export system, AI-based roto masking, and 3D head mesh for head tracking.
Thursday, February 27th, 2025
Plastic Software releases Plasticity 2025.1
Check out the changes to the intuitive NURBS modeler, including a revamped interface, and a new Section Analysis command.
Wednesday, February 26th, 2025
Download four free VDB clouds from VFX Assets
Get free volumetric 3D clouds for previs, motion graphics and VFX in CG apps and game engines like Blender, Maya and Unreal Engine.
Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 5.0
Check out the new features in the 3D capture software, including path tracing in the 3D View and support for HP's Z Captis scanner.
Friday, February 21st, 2025
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2025.1
Sizeable update to the real-time visualization app adds volumetric clouds, Virtual Shadow Maps and automatic LOD generation.
Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
SuperSplat 2.0 lets you create flythroughs of 3D Gaussian Splats
Free, open-source online tool for viewing and editing 3DGS data can now add camera animations to existing scans.
Monday, February 17th, 2025
KeenTools releases KeenTools 2025.1 for Blender and Nuke
Check out the changes to tracking plugins FaceTracker and GeoTracker, including new wireframe rendering and start frame selection options.
Friday, February 14th, 2025
Maxon releases Red Giant 2025.3 and Universe 2025.2
Check out the new features in the suite of motion graphics and VFX plugins and the online library of effects and transitions.
Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Maxon releases Redshift 2025.3
Renderer gets better multiscattering in volumes, USD procedural support in Maya, and initial support for GeForce 50 Series GPUs.
Thursday, February 13th, 2025