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Generate growth animations for forms from corals to crystals with motion designer Gio Gargiulo's neat Houdini toolset, now free in beta.

Friday, January 30th, 2026

Open-source rigging and animation framework gets a new blueprint system - and a Softimage-inspired alternative to Maya's Outliner.

Thursday, January 29th, 2026

Check out the new features in the terrain-generation software for games and VFX, including better support for tablets and pen displays.

Wednesday, January 28th, 2026

Animal Logic-incorporating Netflix subsidiary becomes 'first major animation studio to support Blender's continued development'.

Wednesday, January 28th, 2026

New add-on adds DaVinci Resolve-inspired controls for cinematic color grades, film grain and lens effects in Blender's compositor. Free edition.

Tuesday, January 27th, 2026

Games artist Grzegorz Baran's meticulously researched PBR Color Reference list is an vital source for look dev and shading artists.

Monday, January 26th, 2026

Thinkinetic's destruction plugin now lets users update the geometry or shatter pattern of the object being broken after a sim has been run.

Thursday, January 22nd, 2026

Check out the promising new GPU-accelerated sparse liquid solver from Theory Accelerated, creator of the popular Axiom fluid solver.

Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

Now production-ready: neat new tool creates VFX-quality fluid simulations for export to CG software in USD or Alembic format.

Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

Check out the new features for CG, VFX and motion graphics artists in the latest major update to Adobe's compositing software.

Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

Popular GPU-accelerated UV packing add on gets new Dynamic Tiles system and more texel density controls. See all the changes.

Monday, January 19th, 2026

Get scan-based PBR texture sets at up to 8K resolution, and import them directly into Blender with the new LotPixel download manager.

Sunday, January 18th, 2026

Master crowd simulation for VFX and game cinematics with The Gnomon Workshop's crash course in Maya crowds add-on Golaem.

Saturday, January 17th, 2026