Blender's simulation nodes are coming in Blender 3.6
Long-awaited node-based simulation system reaches the daily builds of the open-source 3D app.
Friday, May 5th, 2023
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Poly lets you generate 8K PBR textures from text prompts
AI-based online service can also tile or upscale existing textures, or create missing PBR texture maps.
Thursday, May 4th, 2023
F3D 2.0 is a free, lightweight ray traced 3D model viewer
Neat open-source tool displays 3D models or point clouds in common formats on Windows, Linux, macOS.
Thursday, May 4th, 2023
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 8
Real-time lighting app gets neat new Scrim Light type mimicking real-world studio lighting set-ups.
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
Boris FX releases free edition of Particle Illusion 2023
Free standalone edition of the GPU accelerated particle generator gets new 3D and fluid dynamics options.
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
Get Antoine Bagattini's free Blender add-on BagaPie V10
Popular modifier gets new tool to package your Geometry Nodes set-ups into custom Blender add-ons.
Saturday, April 29th, 2023
Silhouette 2023 gets new generative AI art tools
Sizeable update to the rotoscoping app also adds new film grain nodes and the Primatte chroma keyer.
Thursday, April 27th, 2023
Boris FX releases Mocha Pro 2023
Planar tracking app gets updates to roto, tracking and rendering to streamline work on complex shots.
Thursday, April 27th, 2023
MaterialX 1.38.7 adds graph editor, native Metal support
Check out the changes to the open standard for materials and look dev data, widely used in VFX software.
Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
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
Download the free edition of RenderMan 25.2
Free edition of the renderer is licensed for personal use and tools development. Now includes RenderMan XPU.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
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
Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 2304
3D tracking app gets new options for solving shots with anamorphic distance and with focus breathing.
Monday, April 17th, 2023