Cloud Paint Shapes Painterly 3D Skies
Casey Sheep and MeiU release a $12 Eevee-only cloud generator for Blender, with mesh conversion, ten presets and built-in sky assets.
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RealTransforms gives Unity props gravity
RealTransforms uses editor physics to drop, rotate and arrange props, with proxy colliders and a beta hull generator for difficult meshes.
FilmSet kit lands in KitBash3D
Finally, a kit that lets you build a film set without filing a rental PO. 139 models, 112 PBRs, and game ready bits for Unreal.
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.
ICE.ART 2026.I recordings are now live
Missed ICE.ART 2026.I? The full set of talks and panels is now online for free, ready to binge between renders.
Nature Generator update brings procedural nature to Blender
Cinematic Cookie updates Nature Generator with new scatter, wind, trees, and presets, plus the same procedural rocks to rivers workflow.
Let’s Build a Blender Hut This Weekend!
A free Blender Geometry Nodes hut generator with adjustable detail and clear reuse rules for personal and commercial projects.
KIRI Engine releases free Scatter for Blender
KIRI Engine releases Scatter, a free Blender add on offering click, procedural and physics based object placement.
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.
Terrain Wrapping Made Easy: Kiri Engine’s Free Blender Add-on
Kiri Engine releases Mesh Wrap, a free Blender add-on that makes projecting and scattering 3D-scanned terrain pieces onto base geometry fast, precise, and non-destructive.
Rendering the Inferno at RiseFX: The Lost Bus
128 shots, 15 sequences, and GPUs on the brink: RISE FX’s Oliver Schulz explains how his team built the burning world of The Lost Bus.
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.
CEUM 2025 Recordings Online: Cities, Pipelines & Python
All CEUM 2025 recordings are now online. The CityEngine User Meeting covers procedural-city workflows, ArcGIS-based planning pipelines, and fresh Python 3 support — a compact update for anyone working in urban-scale visualization.
Free “BranchK” toolkit for Houdini adds hierarchy-deformation features
The free BranchK toolkit for Houdini gives environment artists hierarchical capture and deform tools, download and test now.
KitBash3D’s “DieselPunk” kit free till 18 Nov – retro-futurism ahoy!
KitBash3D’s $245 “DieselPunk” 3D kit (1,395 meshes and 4K textures for Unreal 5) is free on Fab until 18 Nov 2025. Cinematic-grade, no LODs.
Procedural Roads Ahead: Blender Add-on “Roads” Lays Asphalt with Vertices
Blender add-on “Roads” builds procedural roads from vertex extrusions. Fast, planar, parametric and $10.
City Life for Crowds: iCrowds Lands in Blender
iCrowds, the new Blender add-on from iCity’s creator, brings smart Sims-style crowds, seven simulation systems, and 100k agents to 3D production.
Procedural Thursday: CityEngine Users Meet Online Tomorrow
Tomorrow, 5 p.m. CET: CityEngine User Meeting: free, online, and full of procedural nerds. Bring your node graphs.
Open HDRI: 25 Free 29K HDRIs (More to come)
A new online library offers 25 free HDRIs at up to 29K resolution, all under a CC0 license. Open HDRI provides ultra-high-quality lighting environments without sign-ups, tracking or licensing headaches.
Momo: Of Time, Turtles, and Technical Wizardry
VFX Supervisor Michael Wortmann on how RiseFX built the fantasy of Momo: almost entirely on location, with 280 shots and the best turtle in the business.
ICE.ART 2025.II recordings now live for free
All talks and panel recordings from ICE.ART 2025.II are now live online: set aside a free weekend and dive into environment, historical racing,, city simulation, film nostalgia (including dinosaurs) and Unreal workflows.
Free 3D Cathedral Kit Lands on Fab
Epic’s Fab marketplace offers RagTarock’s Abandoned Cathedral pack: 210 modular Unreal Engine 5 assets, Nanite and Lumen ready, free until 21 October 2025.
No hard hats mandatory: 120 Free Construction-Site Props for Unreal & Beyond
Environment artist Marcos Frazao releases 120 free semi-modular construction-site assets via Epic’s Fab marketplace. Nanite-ready, 4 K textured, and available for Unreal Engine: no dust, no steel-toed boots, and definitely no hard hats required.
Cleaning out the studio back room? The ScansMatter warehouse kit might help
Cleaning out the junk in the cellar or back room of the studio has never been easier: 165 free modular warehouse assets until 26 August 2025.
Fast Nature Maker: UE5 Procedural World Generator Simplifies Landscapes
Gökhan Karadayı released a UE5 landscape tool that enables procedural landscapes featuring roads, buildings, rail-lines and props via Landscape Layers.
botaniq 7.1 plants global reach in Blender
Polygoniq’s botaniq 7.1 adds 405 new assets, geographic filters, and scattering presets for Blender 3.6+, with a small 7.1.1 patch.
Unreal Engine Freebie: 350‑Piece Flying Fantasy Town Kit
Epic Games offers 358 free Unreal Engine‑ready meshes from George Shachnev’s Flying Fantasy Town kit. Available via Fab until 15 July 2025.
ScatterFlow Add-on brings gravity‑aware scattering to Blender
Apex Assets releases ScatterFlow, a Blender 4.4 add‑on enabling physics‑based scattering with optional asset pack.
Digital Domain vs. the Nether Horde: Behind the VFX of Minecraft
When Warner Bros. enlisted Digital Domain to tackle the final battle in Minecraft: The Movie, they weren’t just signing up for blocks and shaders...
8K HDRIs from Simon Lachapelle
VFX artist Simon Lachapelle releases free 8K HDRIs for CGI, VFX, and 3D lighting - now with tone-mapped versions and new greyscale variants.
Free Fab? Epic’s Giving Away a Back Alley
Epic Games drops 50 modular 3D assets for Unreal Engine on Fab – for free. Think dumpsters, cables, trash bags, brick walls. It's exactly that.
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.
Saddle Up Your Scene: 260 Wild West Assets Ride Freely into Unreal
260 modular Wild West assets for Unreal Engine now free via Fab—includes saloons, stables, and tumbleweed-ready level design.
ICE.ART 2025.I: May Your Env Be Ever Procedural
ICE.ART 2025.I, the 3D Environment Conference, will return on May 21–22, 2025. The call for speakers is now open.
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.
SketchUp 2025: Better Visuals, Smoother Workflows
SketchUp 2025 enhances realism with photorealistic materials, environment lighting, ambient occlusion, and improved interoperability with Revit and USD export.
OpenScatter: Scattering Objects in Blender Just Got Breezier
OpenScatter, a free Blender add-on, offers advanced object scattering with features like texture masks, guide curves, wind animation, and object collision.
Mufasa heads to MPC
The Prequel of a remake of a animated movie, based on a Shakespeare play... and still worth watching! We got a Chance to talk to Audrey Ferrara, MPCs VFX Supervisor for Mufasa
Digital Domain Lets Agatha Fly
The prettiest Marvel show this year was "Agatha All Along" Time to ask Digital Domain how they did that!
Walk the Space Station—Virtually
Explore the International Space Station in a 3D Tour Built with Unreal Engine 5.
UE Project Titan: Open-World Learning Resource
Epic Games releases Project Titan Unreal Engine project with tools, training, and assets for game developers.
Free 3D Looping Animated Tree Asset
"VFXAssets" on Gumroad offers a free procedural 3D looping animated tree for VFX, game design, and CGI workflows—ideal for environment animation projects - a larger library is also available!
Through the Woodlands
Creatures made of tree branches and roots seem to have a firm place in the history ofVFX. Just…
TD Meetup 09: Photogrammetry
Photogrammetry is an important part of digital asset creation and has helped countless projects create realistic digital actors, assets and environments.
Monkeys, the fourth
The time has come: the next part of the "Planet of the Apes" saga - now number four - will be released in cinemas on 8 May. And that's why we simply asked Weta how they - instead of the apes - built the environment.
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.
Stylised trees | Tutorial Tuesday
From Blender tutorial luminary "All The Works" comes a new video tutorial - about beautiful trees. A training programme for Unreal Engine 5.1 and Blender.
Rocky and stony surfaces | Tutorial Tuesday
The Lighting & Shading Artist from Pixomondo shows how beautiful visual effects can be created from terrain and rock surfaces. A video tutorial with 3ds Max and V-Ray 6.
Free December collection at Epic Games!
There's something going on in the online marketplace: these six download packages are available for free until the end of December! The assets are suitable for environment design.
Gaea 1.3.2 simplifies terrain generation?
Software developer Quad Spinner releases a new version of the terrain tool - and with it new functions such as rock noise, object-to-heightfield and supersampling screenshots.
Free download package for environment design released!
Can artists also use warehouses? With the ProductionCrate asset package, they can! Compatible with Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Houdini and 3ds Max.
A Medieval Town Built in Four Days
Ubisoft environment artist Mika Kuwilsky built a vertical fantasy town in four days with Maya, Blender, Substance Painter and Unreal Engine.
You’ll never guess what this fantasy castle was made of!
The freelance concept artist from Iran goes for a walk - and stumbles across something that should inspire him to create an ingenious Blender project..
City Sample Opens the Matrix Awakens City
Epic Games' City Sample exposes the UE5 city behind The Matrix Awakens, including building, vehicle and crowd packages.
Create realistic grasses with Unity!
For all artists with a soft spot for the grass mat: this geometry shader for Unity's Universal Pipeline will turn your thumbs green!
Plant a jungle with Blender’s geometry node!
This motion designer on Twitter shows you how to decorate your nature environments with curved tree formations in no time at all!
Northern Island Pack for Unreal Engine
FreshCan's Northern Island Pack supplies a 16km² procedural landscape, 63 meshes, photogrammetry, vegetation, clouds, wind and fog.
Stylised Studio Apartment Workflow
Environment artist Emily Cheung explains a stylised apartment built with Maya, Substance Painter, Unity and Unreal Engine.
Download USD Island Paradise from the Disney film Moana now
South Pacific beaches are beyond your travel budget? Then take a trip to Motunui Island now with this USD download.
Project Titan Tests Houdini with UE5
SideFX's Project Titan uses Houdini procedural workflows, Unreal Engine 5 and KitBash3D assets to build a cyberpunk city.
SpeedTree 9 | Release
Change trees: The latest version of the vegetation software is particularly popular with photogrammetry professionals.
Building an Abandoned Tunnel in UE5
Environment artist Emiel Sleegers explains composition, assets, vegetation, texturing and lighting for an Unreal Engine 5 tunnel.
Procedural Grass with Megascans and UE4
Karsten Malmquist explains a Megascans-to-SpeedTree workflow, grass shaders, landscape materials and optimisation in Unreal Engine 4.
Houdini to Unreal Terrain Tutorial
A 30-minute tutorial demonstrates a terrain workflow using lidar data, Houdini and Unreal Engine for environment production.
Battlefield 4 Fan Art Recreates an Abandoned Site in Unreal Engine 4
Environment artist Gilles Devos described building a Battlefield-inspired abandoned construction site in Unreal Engine 4.
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.
Kitchen Generator | Tool
For 3ds Max: Who will be the new kitchen king (in Environment Design)?
Tutorial: Building a Photorealistic Game Prop from Reference to Render
Mohamed El Bouhy explains a complete next-generation prop workflow through the creation of a photorealistic wooden chest.
Project Planet Builds a Voxel World in Unreal Engine
Kevin Bikhazi demonstrates how Unreal Engine 4.26 and Voxel Plugin can be used to construct a complete spherical world.
Epic Games Releases 500 Free City Park Assets for Unreal Engine
The City Park Environment Collection offered more than 500 free Unreal Engine assets including trees, plants, buildings and paving.
Efeu-Generator | Unity
We're getting green fingers: more green branding with the ivy generator!
Instant Terra Plugin Connects Real-Time Terrain Workflows to Unreal Engine
Wysilab released early access for an Instant Terra plugin supporting Unreal Engine 4.26, 4.27 and 5 terrain workflows.
MPC Film Environment Reel Showcases Cities, Worlds and Pokémon
MPC Film’s environment reel presents urban, interstellar and densely populated digital worlds created through the studio’s VFX pipeline.
Legendary Scaling – Mass Effect Returns
It is no secret that we are massive Mass Effect Fans – and when the info about the remastering came out, we were quite certain that we NEEDED to talk to the guys behind the new release.
Designing a Half-Life-Inspired Environment in Blender and Eevee
Ivan Novikov explains how he created a Half-Life-inspired City 17 environment using Blender, Eevee and the Megascans library.
Wysilab Receives Epic MegaGrant for Instant Terra Link
Wysilab received an Epic MegaGrant to develop a live connection between Instant Terra and Unreal Engine.
After Effects Tutorial: Create Realistic Fire
Ignace Aleya demonstrates a 15-minute After Effects workflow for adding a realistic forest-fire effect to live-action footage.
Unreal Engine 4.26 Flowmaps Shape Volumetric Clouds
Technical artist Ryan Brucks demonstrates drawing density and 3D flow maps to shape volumetric clouds in Unreal Engine 4.26.
Victorian Office Breakdown Uses Maya and Substance
Jonathan Benainous created a Victorian office with Maya, Substance tools and Marmoset, relying on displacement for much of the architecture.
Blender Tutorial Builds a Ghibli-Style Camphor Tree
Lightning Boy Studio demonstrates a stylised camphor tree in Blender, including leaf controls, rounded forms and painted textures.
RealityCapture 1.1 Adds AI Terrain Classification
RealityCapture 1.1 added AI terrain classification, LOD export to Cesium ion and Leica BLK3D ImageGroup import.
Outskirts Environment Breakdown Covers ZBrush, Substance and Lighting
Toivo Huhtaniska’s Outskirts breakdown covers modular blockout, ZBrush modelling, Substance texturing, vegetation and Unreal lighting.
Polysnow for 3ds Max: Building Procedural Snow Cover
Polysnow generated editable snow cover in 3ds Max using particle-based previews, painting, merging and baking tools.
GrowInfinite | Toolkit for Houdini
The new HDA collection brings entire green spaces to life.
KitBash3D Kits 4.0 Goes Engine-Ready
KitBash3D Kits 4.0 brings 25 environment kits and more than 5,400 models to Unreal Engine and Unity workflows.
Instant Terra Painted-Mask Tutorial
Wysilab demonstrates how to build a mountain and island in Instant Terra from a painted mask, then composite terrain and vegetation.
Procedural Assets in Realtime Worlds
Nikolay Marinov's thesis examines procedural distribution and generation of 3D assets in realtime AAA production environments.
Village Houses Pack for Unreal
FreshCan's Village Houses pack supplied furnished interiors, vegetation, facade assets and destructible elements for Unreal Engine.
Cyberpunk Kitbash Set for ZBrush
Paul Dave Malla's cyberpunk kitbash collection supplied 122 ZBrush inserts, 114 OBJ files, 54 detail alphas and eight mech alphas.
Unreal Training: Niagara and Megascans
Three Unreal Engine sessions cover Niagara effects, Quixel Megascans environment assembly and Runtime Virtual Texture transitions.
SANYO and Toshiyuki Kita at Milano Design Week 2008
SANYO will present products and an installation based on its environmentally focused Think GAIA design concept at Milano Design Week.
“Green IT” – a start has been made
Greenpeace study compares the environmental compatibility of electronic products.
Two eneloop Products Win iF Design Awards
Sanyo has received 2008 iF product design awards for the eneloop rechargeable battery and solar-powered eneloop Solar Charger.