Boris FX adds AI-powered masking to Sapphire 2025.5
Big update to the effects plugins for video editing and compositing apps adds AI matte generation and GPU acceleration on AMD hardware.
Friday, May 2nd, 2025
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CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 2025.0
Big update to the 3D clothing design tool adds a new fur material, new keyframe animation capabilities, and a modular garment library.
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Chaos releases Vantage 2.8
Real-time renderer gets support for light linking, lens effects, and Shader Execution Reordering on NVIDIA GPUs. See all the new features.
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Ziva VFX and OIDN creators win Sci-Tech Academy Awards
Soft tissue simulation and render denoising system win tech 'Oscars', due to be presented at a ceremony tonight. Check out the other winners.
Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
Substance 3D creator Sébastien Deguy to leave Adobe
Allegorithmic founder pays tribute to Substance 3D staff and artists after announcing decision to 'close this chapter of my career and life'.
Monday, April 28th, 2025
Master FACS Rigging for Facial Motion Capture
Create a FACS-based facial rig suitable for VFX or animation work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Maya tutorial.
Saturday, April 26th, 2025
Unity 6.1: discover 5 key features for CG artists
See the key features in the game engine and real-time renderer, from better 3D water to Variable Rate Shading and Deferred+ rendering.
Friday, April 25th, 2025
Get VFX artist Thomas Marcos' free Blender clouds shader
Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
NVIDIA open-sources PhysX's GPU simulation code
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
Hair Cinematic Tool 2.0 simplifies hair shading in Unreal Engine 5
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
LightWave Digital releases LightWave 2025
Check out the new features in the 3D software, including viewport path tracing, a new Toon Filter, and new rigging and animation tools.
Friday, April 18th, 2025
Get the free version of ZibraVDB for Unreal Engine and Houdini
Updated: free version of the real-time volumetric effects tool for games and virtual production is now available for Houdini as well as Unreal Engine.
Friday, April 18th, 2025
See JangaFX's first demo of IlluGen, its app for in-game VFX
Check out the feature set of the much-anticipated tool for creating VFX assets for games, its workflow, its release date, and its likely price.
Thursday, April 17th, 2025