Tutorial: Creating Photorealistic 3D Environments
Create portfolio-worthy 3D terrain in World Creator and Blender with the help of The Gnomon Workshop's intermediate-level tutorial.
Saturday, April 12th, 2025
vfx
F12 releases The Grove 2.2 for Blender and Houdini
Popular 3D tree generator gets new Skeleton tool for creating animation rigs, and new workflows to reduce tree poly counts for use in games.
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Reallusion unveils Character Creator 5
Check out the new features, price and release date for the next major update to the 3D character creation software for games and VFX.
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Get versions of the free Thinkbox tools that work with 3ds Max 2026
Get new versions of particle tools Krakatoa MX, Frost MX, Stoke MX and XMesh MX recompiled to support current versions of 3ds Max.
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 20.0 in beta
Discover key features for VFX artists and colorists in this major update to the free grading and editing app and its $295 Studio edition.
Sunday, April 6th, 2025
Free tool: get character animation from Cinema 4D to Unreal Engine
Big update to the Cineware for Unreal plugin makes it possible to transfer rigged and animated characters to Unreal Engine 5.5.
Sunday, April 6th, 2025
Maxon releases Red Giant 2024.4 and Universe 2025.3
Updates to the effects plugins for compositing and video editing apps extend support for DaVinci Resolve, but end support for Vegas Pro.
Friday, April 4th, 2025
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2025.1 with AI-based Inbetweening
Innovative animation app gets new AI system for generating realistic motion connecting two poses. Check out the other new features.
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
Maxon releases Redshift 2025.4
Big update to the renderer adds OpenPBR support. See the other new features for 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya users.
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2025.2
3D animation and motion graphics app gets integrated Spline Modifiers and updates to particle simulation. Liquid simulation 'coming soon'.
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
Maxon releases ZBrush 2025.2
Check out the changes to the digital sculpting tool, including updates to poly modeling system ZModeler and new Redshift materials.
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Maxon adds ZModeler and UV Master to ZBrush for iPad 2025.3
Significant update to the new iPad edition of the digital sculpting app adds long-awaited poly modeling and UV unwrapping toolsets.
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Autodesk releases Mudbox 2026
Digital sculpting software gets its fifth consecutive 'minor update', but the cost of monthly subscriptions falls back to 2022 levels.
Tuesday, April 1st, 2025