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

Tuesday, December 24th, 2024

Open-source pipeline for VFX and animation work is now production-ready - and available in the cloud as well as to install locally for free.

Thursday, January 18th, 2024

Updated, now in beta: open-source framework connects VFX tools into a coherent USD-ready pipeline.

Friday, August 25th, 2023

Grease Pencil turns Blender into a free, bones-based 2D animation toolset. Try the new version here.

Tuesday, July 5th, 2016

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including nifty new Select Details options in the AI-based Object Selection tool.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Update to the renderer adds over 3,100 Chaos Scans materials to the Cosmos library, and improves DoF and volumetric effects.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Get JustB Studios' 1850s Post Office Environment pack of 3D assets for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace. For commercial use.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

Argentum Studio's in-house tool simplifies the process of lighting and rendering hair and fur in Unreal Engine 5.5. Free for a month.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025