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Next major update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator to feature sparse sims, simulation retiming, USD support and a macOS edition.

Monday, January 27th, 2025

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

Tuesday, December 24th, 2024

Check out the neat new Sky Paint tools in the December 2024 update to the sky-creation tool for VFX, visualization and games work.

Friday, December 20th, 2024

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

Friday, December 20th, 2024

Popular lightweight Blender fluid simulation add-on now lets you art direct simulations with guide curves. Check out the other new features.

Tuesday, December 17th, 2024

Check out the new features in the AI-assisted animation software, including a ragdoll physics system, and a live link to Unreal Engine.

Friday, November 29th, 2024

Big update to the real-time terrain generator adds new snow and debris simulation tools, and changes pricing and licensing.

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024

Newly rebranded plugin transfers 3D characters, shaders, rigs and animation from Character Creator and iClone to Blender.

Monday, November 18th, 2024

New batches of commercial tools and assets will be made available free on the online marketplace for two weeks, every two weeks.

Thursday, November 7th, 2024

Freshcan 3D's Military Airport pack is a set of 3D buildings, roads and props, licensed for commercial use in any game engine or CG software.

Thursday, November 7th, 2024

Latest major update to the renderer adds support for 3D Gaussian Splatting and luminaires, and updates V-Ray GPU and the VFB.

Thursday, October 31st, 2024

New video-to-3D-scene system 'brings artists closer to producing animated films' as well as VFX with the AI online film-making platform.

Thursday, October 31st, 2024

New 'open marketplace' replaces the Unreal Engine Marketplace and will replace the ArtStation and Sketchfab stores. Read our FAQs.

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024