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Painterly Trees for Blender: ShapeScape Studio Blooms
New Blender add-on ShapeScape Studio lets artists grow painterly trees procedurally with NPR shaders, custom meshes, and built-in animation.
Substance Designer cleans up its nodes
Cleaner graphs, smarter noise, and a friendlier graph creation UI: Substance 3D Designer 15.1 focuses on making material authoring less fiddly.
Cascadeur 2025.3: Inbetweening De Luxe
Cascadeur 2025.3 adds Filament rendering, new inbetweening controls, quadruped rigs and twist bones, Windows-only for now, experimental but promising.
Blender 4.5 LTS lands
lender 4.5 LTS arrives with studio-grade support; the Blender survey shows where users stand; and Blender 5.0 beta is already here, so its time to plan your upgrade.
Blender 5.0 Beta!
Blender 5.0 Beta runs until 5 November 2025, bringing ACES 2.0, node and compositor updates, HDR colour support, and stricter compatibility rules.
ICE.Art 2025: Virtual Worlds Meet After Hours
ICE.Art 2025 goes online in October. Two evenings of talks on 3D environments. Michael Shelton returns after his FMX Westworld talk.
Silhouette 2025.5: Roto With Prompts, Faces, and a Built-In SynthEyes
AI masking, Face ML, and SynthEyes 3D tracking arrive in Silhouette 2025.5. Roto artists everywhere suddenly feel less stressed and with a bigger toolbox for their job.
Unreal Cabin Fever: 156 Free Assets for UE Users
156 free meshes for cabins, props and trees in Unreal Engine. Available on Fab until 7 October. Lightmaps included, LODs missing.
Clothy3D: New Tool for Clothing Auto-Fit, Rigging & Mesh Transfers
TL;DR: Clothy3D is a new free software tool for auto-fitting and rigging clothes across 3D characters, transferring skeletons and skin weights, and exporting via FBX. With a marketplace and tutorials included, it could bridge pipelines between Marvelous Designer, Daz3D, iClone, and Unreal Engine—though still in beta.
KitBash3D Cargo 2.0 lands with Houdini Solaris importer and 350 free assets
KitBash3D Cargo 2.0 ships with Houdini Solaris USD importer and 350 free assets. Free for personal use, commercial rights require paid plans.
Interior assets without flat-pack stress
Ikea trip cancelled: Polygoniq’s Interniq 2.0 drops 800+ Blender interior assets, ready to install via Asset Browser—no hex keys, no queues.
Adobe Substance 3D Reviewer
dobe’s Substance 3D Reviewer enables immersive, cross‑platform 3D feedback in VR and browser. Browser‑based tools such as Autodesk Viewer and Sibe support non‑Adobe workflows.
Lidar Gets a Lift: Kiri Engine 3.14 Adds AI to Its Scanning Game
Kiri Engine 3.14 brings AI-enhanced Lidar scanning to mobile photogrammetry—plus depth map meshing, automatic alignment, and scene cleanup.
Cinema 4D 2025.2: Feature Dump, Incoming
Cinema 4D 2025.2 delivers a host of new features—from enhanced camera modes to particle controls and Rocket Lasso Capsules—with extensive bug fixes.
Painter, Designer, Modeler: Adobe Refines the 3D Toolbox
Adobe presents updates to Substance 3D Painter and Designer, expanding integration, realism, and control—with unmetered assets and indie pricing.
Using 3D Objects in After Effects
Since 2024, it has been possible to integrate 3D objects into After Effects Beta. The updated version of the Adobe compositing solution now also has this functionality.
KitBash3D’s Gaea: Free Fantasy on Fab
KitBash3D’s Gaea fantasy architecture pack is free on Fab in March, featuring modular medieval buildings for Unreal, Blender, and more.
Unwrella-IO: UV Mapping Made Unbelievably Easy
3d-io introduces Unwrella-IO, a standalone application offering automated UV unwrapping and packing, streamlining workflows for 3D artists and game developers.
Adobe’s Substance 3D Sampler 5.0: Now with Path Tracing
Adobe's Substance 3D Sampler 5.0 introduces AI-powered 3D material creation and photogrammetry.
Substance 3D Modeler 1.19: Hollow Shells and Asset Management
Adobe's latest update introduces Project Assets workflow, Shell parameter for primitives, adaptive subdivision, and VR camera preview enhancements. Also: The "Substance 3D Asset Library" is now fully available for all Subscribers without any limits.
Adobe Substance 3D Designer 14.1
The latest update to Adobe Substance 3D Designer brings new functionalities and fixes that streamline your creative process. Here’s everything you need to know.
Free Modular Bakery Shop Assets for Unreal Engine – Download Now!
Epic Games has released a free Modular Bakery Shop asset pack, featuring 76 highly detailed static meshes, including PBR materials for realistic rendering. Available only for a limited time, the pack is ideal for Unreal Engine users seeking to create a bakery or café environment.
A Wrapping Revolution: Wrap 2024.11 & Wrap4D Unveiled
FaceForm updates Wrap and Wrap4D with enhanced node graph features, new brush tools, and a comprehensive blend rig pipeline for 3D scanning professionals.
AI Meets 3D: Meshtron Spins Up Smarter Meshes
Meshtron uses AI to generate 3D meshes with speed and flexibility. A promising tool for VFX, games, and real-time workflows—simplicity remains key.
Namaqualand 3D Assets: Free, Desert Dry—But Not Your Workflow!
Poly Haven drops over 30 3D scans and 10 HDRIs of South African desert plants and rocks, free for VFX pros. Formats? Blender, FBX, USD—and more.
Freemium Stuff: Blender to Resolve Course!
Want to streamline your VFX projects? Blender and DaVinci Resolve now work better together. Here’s what you need to know about the latest integration.
A new element is here!
Element, our favourite 3D asset manager, is entering its second version - now with infinite scroll, duplicate detector and the long-awaited assignment of textures and maps to geometry within the manager!
XMG Studio tested
A user test: How does XMG Studio perform? And how does the Nvidia card perform?
The glTF Scene Toolkit on Otoys Marketplace?
The Americans around Otoy join forces with the Germans from UX3D. Otoy's ecosystem now offers 100 per cent glTF support!
Blender 3.3 LTS with hair-monic function!
The open-source 3D software rolls out its next full-fledged release. We brush, comb and pluck our way through the new flagship function - curve-based grooming!
The best fan film of the year!
Something to laugh about at the weekend: "E11 Standard Issues". Anyone who knows DP author Robert Hranitzky knows about his love of the Star Wars universe - now even as a fan film.
Cinema 4D: Project Neutron announced
Redshift 3.0, Trapcode and Project Neutron: Proceduralism is coming to Cinema 4D, Redshift Realtime and much more!
3ds Max and Maya Indie soon available worldwide!
Let's continue with the good news: After Nuke, Max and Maya are now apparently at the start with "worldwide" indie versions.
Blender 2.83 with long-term support
It's time for the next round: The new Blender version 2.83 comes for the first time with long-term support (LTS) labelling and exciting new features.
C4DLive: Maxon with virtual NAB Show
Due to the ongoing coronavirus situation, Maxon is preparing for NAB 2020 with a virtual programme.
21 free alpha masks
New free stuff: Free hardsurface alpha masks by game artist Dan Rožański. The total of 21 alphas can also be used for commercial purposes!
Foundry releases Mari 4.0
Mari 4.0 released by Foundry: The 3D painting tool comes with a cleaner interface, faster project set-ups and Disney's Principled BRDF Shader, among other things
FaceBuilder: 3D faces in Nuke
Not a photogrammetry solution, but fast: FaceBuilder lets you generate 3D faces from photos in Nuke in no time at all.
FMX 2017: Clarisse 3.5 from Isotropix
Fresh announcement from FMX 2017: Clarisse version 3.5 with new paint tools, scatter features, Cryptomatte support and more!
130 free textures from Pixar
Free textures from Pixar: A total of 130 seamless textures of clouds, paper and more with tips for shader networks in Renderman.
Allegorithmic: Substance Painter 2.5
The Allegorithmic update cascade continues: Substance Painter 2.5 with parallax occlusion mapping, colour management and brush opacity.
The magic house
The latest animated film by Belgian director Ben Stassen is currently showing in cinemas.
3D-NorthEast 2008
The 11th application-related workshop on the acquisition, modelling, processing and evaluation of 3D data will take place as part of the GFal NordOst workshop family. The aim of the 3D NordOst workshop series is to promote the transfer of current expertise in 3D data processing and image processing to the various industrial sectors as well as the cultural and medical fields and to provide a platform for the discussion of current 3D topics.
Apple Pro Series Event
From web design to 3D animations, from broadcasting to podcasting - creative professionals need to be familiar with a wide range of media. In Berlin, interested parties have the opportunity to find out about the tools they need at free lectures, workshops and training sessions.
3D-NorthEast 2007
10. application-oriented workshop on the acquisition, modelling, processing and evaluation of 3D data. The 3D NordOst workshop series aims to promote the transfer of current expertise in 3D data and image processing to industrial, cultural and medical sectors and to provide a platform for the discussion of current 3D topics.
S3D Basics
Participants can discuss the following topics at the conference and exhibition: Health aspects, the need for international standards for 3D, dealing with 3D-specific product complaints and individual 3D perception.