World Creator 2026.4 adds expressions and decals
World Creator 2026.4 brings expressions, decals, terrain normal blending, VRAM scaling, and a free Community Edition that lets you learn, not deliver.
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Delhi in 3D: Kitbash3D goes urban
Kitbash3D launches New Delhi, a 3D asset kit with 84 models and 127 materials for building detailed urban cityscapes.
Bury Your Good Intentions in 3D
Over 300 stylised graveyard assets from Cryptic Realms are free on Fab until 27 January 2026.
Marvelous Designer adds indie pricing, quietly
Marvelous Designer introduces a discounted indie licence with defined revenue limits and feature parity.
RealFX Part 2: From the loading bar to the keyboard
Three scripts, one goal: easyRulers, LoadUP and keyboardFX bring clean, functional motion graphics utilities for everyday After Effects work.
World Creator 2025.3 adds ORBX , Godot bridge and caves
World Creator 2025.3 brings ORBX export for OctaneRender, Godot integration and cave-mask terrain tools, adding flexibility for terrain export and engine pipelines.
Photoshop AI in practice
Following the integration of Adobe Firefly, there are now AI systems from partners. Flux Context Pro and Nano Banana are useful additions for Photoshop-AI in practice.
Marvelous Designer 2025.2: MetaHumans, Pleats & Keyframes
Marvelous Designer 2025 introduces direct MetaHuman DNA import, pattern-to-trim/accessory conversion, pleat creation and expanded keyframe control.
RealFX Part 1: Perfectly formed scripts
The landscape of plug-in providers for After Effects (and other host applications) has thinned out noticeably in recent times. Whereas in the 2000s and 2010s we used to receive press releases about new and interesting plug-ins several times a week, nowadays we are lucky to receive one announcement per month. But we found a few beauties!
Affinity: free all-in-one design suite
Canva folds Affinity into one free-forever app, marking a major shift for design tools and putting the old perpetual-licence model on hold.
The Mill Returns
The Mill is back. TransPerfect revives the iconic VFX studio with returning talent and a global creative push.
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.
HDR Light Studio 9.1 Lumi‑Curve Turns Lighting into Line Art—Literally
HDR Light Studio 9.1 introduces Lumi‑Curve: freeform, editable curve-based lights for shaping reflections, highlights, trails, and backgrounds.
Dungeon Assets for Free: Fab.com’s New Drop for Unreal
Fab's new Dungeon Pack delivers 110 modular assets and props for Unreal Engine - and it’s free.
16.03.25: DESIGN FOR FILM: Bridging Art, Costume & VFX @ HFF Munich
The symposium Design for Film at HFF München explores the intersection of Art and Costume Departments with VFX, tackling workflows, communication, and education.
Level Up Your Game Design: Max Pears’ Ultimate Asset Pack for UE 5
Max Pears introduces a comprehensive Level Design Kit for Unreal Engine 5, featuring over 300 unique assets to streamline your game development process.
New Kizzle Splatter Node Enhances Adobe Substance 3D Designer
Kai Mergener’s custom Kizzle Splatter Node streamlines pattern creation in Substance 3D Designer, offering new procedural texturing capabilities for 3D artists.
VFX Reel 2024: HFF Munich’s Visual Effects Students Showcase Their Latest Work
Experience the latest in visual effects and digital storytelling at HFF Munich's VFX Reel 2024 on November 28.
Sketchsoft Releases Feather 1.0: Streamlined 3D Drawing
Sketchsoft’s Feather 1.0 introduces a real-time 3D drawing and modeling tool focused on efficient asset creation.
Free Adobe MAX 2024: Access all Talks from Last Week’s Event
Adobe MAX 2024's key sessions are now available online for free, providing creatives with tutorials on VFX, animation, filmmaking, and post-production tools.
Castle In The Sky Hommage
We all think Studio Ghibli is great - and if you want to learn what makes it so charming and appealing, a homage is always a good way to go. And I had the opportunity at Ostfalia University,
to really immerse myself - a
an experience report.
Weathering with You: Worldbuilding with Hiroshi Takiguchi
Art director Hiroshi Takiguchi explores the worldbuilding and environment design behind Makoto Shinkai’s anime feature Weathering with You.
Post-Apocalyptic City Asset Pack Updated for Unreal Engine
Kimmo Kaunela’s Post Apocalyptic City pack added interiors to a modular Unreal Engine environment containing around 200 adjustable elements.
Free Rural Australia Environment Pack for Unreal Engine
Andrew Svanberg Hamilton’s Rural Australia pack supplied 85 real-time meshes derived from photography for Unreal Engine environments.
Free Post-USSR Builder Creates Modular Apartment Blocks in Blender
Alexey Yakovlev’s free Post-USSR Builder generated configurable apartment buildings in Blender 2.93 and later.
Voxel Plugin 1.2 Adds Landscape Materials and Splines to Unreal Engine
Voxel Plugin 1.2 for Unreal Engine added landscape materials, spline support and a no-clipping component for characters moving through voxel terrain.
Corel Opens Interactive Café
Online platform connects Corel Painter Essentials artists around the world
Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution Wins Prestigious Macworld Award
Editors at Macworld UK name Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution the year’s best creative design software.
Book Review: Photographic Landscapes: A Textbook for Image Composition
Anyone can take photographs—framing and image composition, not only in landscapes, are subjects that require practice, knowledge and experience.
Microsoft Expression Studio 2 Available Shortly
Also new: Expression Professional Subscription for web designers, web developers and RIA developers
The Big Screen for Everyone – RTT Presents RTT DirectAutoCAD Conversion Tool
Until now, high-end visualization solutions such as RTT DeltaGen were used almost exclusively by larger companies. The new RTT DirectAutoCAD conversion tool changes that, allowing smaller architecture and design studios to use the industry-leading RTT DeltaGen visualization software. The tool will be available shortly, optionally bundled with RTT DeltaGen 8.0.
DETAIL CREATIVE AWARD Special Category for the animago AWARD 2008
The submission deadline for the DETAIL CREATIVE AWARD, a special category of the animago Award 2008 with prize money of 5,000 euros, has been extended to July 31, 2008. Anyone who would like to make a 20-second spot on the subject of architecture and win 5,000 euros can take part.
DP Intensive Seminar: On Air Design and Production Workflow in Cinema 4D
The first seminar day "Motion Graphics and On Air Design" provides a detailed overview of the conception and production steps through to finished on-air design and motion graphics projects using practical and real production examples. The workflow within the production plays an important role. Cinema 4D and After Effects are predominantly used.
Speakers: Klemens Ehret and Christian Roggy
On the second day of the seminar, the individual work processes (including Mograph, BodyPaint), the project organisation and, of course, the production workflow will be described using a real production (BMW Spot).
Speakers: Björn Kowalski and Christoph Skamierski
Date: 2-day seminar: Saturday, 5 July from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and
Sunday, 6 July from 9 am to 4 pm, SAE Institute Cologne, Carlswerkstr. 7-13; 51063 Cologne
Costs: 99,- EURO (for students 79,- EURO)
Quark Launches QuarkXPress 8 Xperience Design Global Tour
Quark invites creative professionals around the world to experience QuarkXPress 8 live.
Video: Swiss Design in Hollywood Exhibition Opens
An exhibition titled “Swiss Design in Hollywood” opened last night at the NIFF festival in Neuchâtel. DP was there and filmed an overview of Giger and company.
QuarkXPress 8 Benchmark Study Shows Productivity Is the Ultimate Deciding Factor
Pfeiffer Report finds that QuarkXPress 8 is more than three times faster than earlier versions.
Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences Presents Graduate Projects
Twenty-four graduate communication designers present their work.
Impressive Record for the Design Handbook “Visualizing Ideas”
10 years on the market, 4 editions, a total of 35,000 copies sold, and translations into English, French, and Russian
German Multimedia Award Nominees Announced
Jury praises the high standard of entries in twelve competition categories; awards ceremony takes place in Berlin on 18 June.
Vienna’s Graphische Implements QuarkXPress 7 at 600 Workstations
Austria’s most respected school for printing and media technology, graphic and communication design, and photography relies on QuarkXPress 7 in its teaching.
Flashforum Conference at MediaPark 7 in Cologne
For the eighth time, Marc Thiele and Sascha Wolter are organizing workshops and a conference on web technologies and web design from 21 to 24 May 2008, with a focus on the Flash and Flex platforms and Adobe AIR.
Book Review: The Photographer’s Eye
Books on operating a camera and on the technical aspects of photography appear every day. Image composition and design, by comparison, remain topics for more advanced photographers, though they have increasingly found their way onto bookshelves in recent years.
Microsoft Expression Studio 2 Improves Collaboration Between Developers and Designers
Microsoft Expression Studio 2, the next generation of professional tools for web and interface design, is scheduled for release in Germany on July 7, 2008.
Book Review: Visual Language – A Visual Dictionary for Designers
Today, graphic design is accessible to a broad audience through programs such as Corel Draw and Publisher, but terminology becomes challenging when it comes to composition, attraction and balance.
HBKsaar: Ivica Maksimovic Remains Rector
The Saarland art academy confirms its head in office for another four years.
Quark Supports Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft Silverlight, a platform- and browser-independent plug-in for complex interactive applications, is now supported by QuarkXPress 7.
JAHR TOP SPECIAL VERLAG Moves to QuarkXPress 7
Europe's leading publisher of outdoor, sports and leisure magazines is using the latest version of Quark's award-winning page-layout and design software.
T-Systems Media & Broadcast Becomes Media Broadcast
MEDIA BROADCAST, formerly part of T-Systems and now owned by France's TDF Group, is positioning itself as a German broadcast-services brand.
Mario Lombardo Named VisualLeader of the Year
The LeadAcademy has named Mario Lombardo ‘VisualLeader of the Year 2008’.
“Worldwide” Best: Award for VIER, the HfK Bremen Magazine
Type Directors Club New York awards “Certificate of Typographic Excellence”.
Poor Technology Design Frustrates Users
Intelligent, self-explanatory user interfaces remain the exception in consumer and professional technology.
New Accessories Turn Phones and Game Consoles into Eye-Catchers
New design films for mobile phones, iPods, and game consoles allow users to add individual accents.
Quark Launches Dynamic Publishing Solution
Quark combines automated publishing, cross-media output, and professional design in a new Dynamic Publishing Solution.
Quark launches ilovedesign.com, a new community website for designers
Designers from around the world can draw inspiration from the stars of their industry on ilovedesign.com, exhibit their own work and rate the designs of others.
Tele 5 Refreshes Its On-Air Design
Tele 5 has introduced a warmer color treatment and new sound design for its refreshed on-air presentation.
Asus develops eco-laptop with bamboo housing
EeePC misses Christmas - sales launch in mid-January.
denkwerk Sends Thomas Cook onto the Web with a New Look
Cologne Internet agency designs new appearance for the thomascook.de travel platform/Comparison of 47 travel providers possible.
Bachelor’s Degree Programme “Design” at the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg
Time is running out: Until December 15, 2007, prospective students can still apply for the new Bachelor's degree programme in Design at the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied
Sciences – Nuremberg University of Applied Sciences. For the first time, the programme can also start
in the summer semester in order to accommodate the rising number of applicants.
Berlinale Talent Campus Selects 350 Filmmakers
The 2008 Talent Campus will focus on emotion, short film and virtual-world design with production designer Alex McDowell.
Powerflasher wins contract for new Converse web presence
They are happy to put on this shoe: Aachen multimedia agency Powerflasher GmbH received the online budget from new client All Star D.A.CH. GmbH for its Converse shoe brand. This includes the complete conceptual and creative relaunch of the website www.converse.de.
Two successes at “kurzundschön” for students
Two awards from the renowned “kurzundschön” film competition went this year to design students at Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences – Nuremberg University of Applied Sciences. They study “Film and Animation” under Prof. Jürgen Schopper and accepted the coveted awards at a gala in Cologne. The Europe-wide “kurzundschön” competition for young talent took place for the 10th time and attracted entrants in various competition categories with cash and material prizes worth 21,000 euros.
ArcelorMittal and Nemetschek sign a strategic agreement
Both companies are pushing cooperation and the promotion of planning and modelling software for steel construction.
Living Cloud Wins Virtual Architecture Award
Tanja Meyle's Living Cloud wins the public prize in the first Second Life Annual Architecture and Design Competition.
“WHO” or “when OHM is upside down”
New magazine from the Faculty of Design at Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg
Alibre and TraceParts enable convenient access to millions of 3D CAD models
Alibre Inc. and TraceParts Inc. today announced the immediate availability of the new TraceParts Online Portal (www.tracepartsonline.net/ws/alibre), which gives the rapidly growing Alibre customer base direct access to the entire TraceParts component library. With more than 100 million 3D CAD models and 2D drawings, the TraceParts component library is one of the most extensive worldwide and includes both standard and purchased parts from hundreds of component manufacturers.
dc days: Form-Finding and Individualized Prefabrication
Design specialist Florian Steinbächer from Hausmarke Berlin offers practical tips.
Flashforum Conference 2007 in Cologne
On September 24, 25 and 26, 2007, Sascha Wolter and Marc Thiele are organising the leading German-language conference on web technologies and web design with a focus on the Flash and Flex platform.
Mister Wong Launches International Logo Contest
Internet users all over the world are called upon to design a new logo for the social-bookmarking portal.
Xtopia: Rediscover the web with Microsoft
Designers, developers and decision-makers learn everything about Silverlight, web design, IP-TV & Co in Berlin from October 10 to 12
Release of Toon Boom Studio 4 Planned
Toon Boom Animation Inc. announced today that a release of the Emmy-winning animation software is expected shortly.
Paramount Home Entertainment has new website
At www.paramount.de, the Paramount Home Entertainment website presents itself in a new design, packed with a great many new features. Clarity, scope of functions and information as well as user-friendliness were at the forefront of the website relaunch.
kress presents completely new online offering
The specialist media service kress presents itself on the Internet starting immediately with a completely redesigned website.
Sonic Updates HD-Disc Menu Plug-In
Scenarist Designer PS 2.1 automates Photoshop menu-graphics output for Blu-ray and HD DVD authoring.
Powerflasher makes the “Perfect Dinner” a pleasure online too
Web 2.0 in Action: Instead of sitting exclusively in front of the television and enjoying VOX's cooking shows, fans of the TV series “The Perfect Dinner” can now also dine actively themselves.
EyeWonder launches AdWonder 9.0
Authoring tool for Flash online ads improved / No need to leave the Flash environment / Promises time savings in production
n-tv.de on Course for Success
n-tv.de is growing continuously. The news channel n-tv's information portal recorded 110,473,115 Page Impressions (PIs) and 13,446,985 visits last month. In terms of PIs, this is the third-best month since n-tv.de launched eight years ago.
DP Interview: Architects Open Up to the 3D Market
Autodesk is the worldwide sponsor of the traveling exhibition “Envisioning Change,” which draws attention to climate change. In Oslo, this exhibition was opened by Autodesk on World Climate Day. On this occasion, DP Editor-in-Chief Matthias J. Lange conducted an interview with Amar Hanspal, Autodesk Senior Vice President Platform Solutions and Emerging Business.
Free Panel Discussion “Where Does the Future of 3D Lie?”
On Wednesday, July 11, DIGITAL PRODUCTION is inviting guests to a panel discussion at the renowned Munich PresseClub. The guest is Michel Besner, Senior Director of Product Management Media & Entertainment Division at Autodesk.
Dresden Launches 150,000-Building 3D Model
Dresden launches a Google Earth city model containing more than 150,000 buildings.
n-tv.de in a New Design
The online information portal of the news channel n-tv, n-tv.de, has appeared in a new design since yesterday and is even more user-friendly. The site, which recorded proud growth of 32 percent in Page Impressions (PIs) in the first half of 2007 compared with the first half of 2006, now offers users an even clearer view of its comprehensive, multimedia range of information.
Nemetschek Presents Planning Package for Civil Engineering
Nemetschek is now offering the D planning package for civil engineering as a supplement to the Allplan Civil Engineering CAD system. It is an extensive collection of CAD planning data that helps engineering firms handle projects efficiently and reduce organizational effort
Information Event on the Status Quo and Prospects of Media-Based Interaction Design
Industry experts describe challenges for design, promotion and marketing
Scenarist Designer PS 2.0 Automates Menus
Sonic's Photoshop plug-in exports interactive menu components for Blu-ray and HD DVD authoring on Mac and Windows.
ADC Awards Show
At the ADC Awards Show, the ADC nails will be awarded to the most creative minds of 2006 - for advertising, media, editorial, spatial communication and design.
From 23 March to 26 March 2007, the exhibition will showcase the winning entries and all the competition entries in Hangar2 at Tempelhof Airport.
Creative TV Channel Idee07 Launches on the Web
New IPTV offering is intended to serve creative people as a platform for ideas in the field of communication
8th International Eyes & Ears Awards with new participation record
Awards ceremony on October 19 in Munich
Macromedia Academy: Animation Artist Training Starts April 24
Fourth round of part-time expert training in Munich
NEC Adds Hardware-Calibrated Displays
The 19-inch SpectraView 1990 and 20-inch 2090 target colour-critical imaging and design.
Wacom Expands Its Intuos3 Pen Tablet Range
A3 Wide and A4 Oversize models / Flagship provides a 12 x 19-inch active area for working at a 16:10 aspect ratio
Rheinische Fachhochschule Provides Information on Media Design Degree Program
Event on January 7, 2006 in Cologne
New Adobe Bundles Combine Creative Products from Adobe and Macromedia
After Takeover, Combination Offers for Software in the Web, Design and Video Sectors
Creative Contest Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2006 Launched
International Competition for Students Expanded to 24 Countries / Winners Receive Prize Money of 5,000 US Dollars
“Media Design” as a Bachelor’s Degree Program at Rheinische Fachhochschule
Fee-Based Full-Time Degree Program over Six Semesters
Seminar: Interactive Media as Distribution Channels for Niche-Potential Content
Event by Eyes & Ears of Europe in Cologne
Legal framework
Legal framework conditions for audiovisual communication design.
Two-day event organised by Eyes & Ears of Europe and Creation Club in Unterföhring