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Check out the new features in former Lucasfilm developer Darby Johnston's open-source image viewer for VFX and animation work.

Sunday, February 15th, 2026

First update to the heavyweight open-source image viewer in five years adds support for OpenTimelineIO and USD.

Sunday, July 20th, 2025

Check out the new features in the sub-$100 image editing app, including support for Cryptomatte data when retouching 3D renders.

Friday, January 24th, 2025

Environment generation software gets highly multithreaded rendering, plus heightfield export to 16-bit TIFFs for Unity and Unreal Engine.

Friday, December 20th, 2024

Get a free 3D scan of a female head as FBX, OBJ, ZBrush and Blender files, with 8K PBR textures, plus 26 free makeup and dirt overlays.

Thursday, September 21st, 2023

Ubiquitous tech for reading and writing images becomes the latest open-source project to be hosted by the visual effects industry body.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2023

Check out the new features in the sub-$100 image editing software, including better layer workflow.

Wednesday, July 12th, 2023

Handy free tool lets you take screenshots from After Effects' Composition Panel in one click.

Monday, February 13th, 2023

Major update to Omniverse's scene layout app adds new physics features and support for MaterialX.

Wednesday, November 9th, 2022

Terrain generator for games and real-time work gets new system for creating roads, deforming the land surface automatically to match.

Monday, March 14th, 2022

Inkscape 1.1 ships

Major update to the open-source vector design tool adds nifty new options for editing paths, and a lot of quality-of-life improvements.

Saturday, May 29th, 2021

Download this detailed free texture map to recreate the lunar surface in 3D. Licensed for commercial use.

Sunday, February 21st, 2021

Create detailed renders of the planet's surface from space with this huge free 16-bit texture map.

Thursday, January 21st, 2021