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environment
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
UE Project Titan: Open-World Learning Resource
Epic Games releases Project Titan Unreal Engine project with tools, training, and assets for game developers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Unreal Training: Niagara and Megascans
Three Unreal Engine sessions cover Niagara effects, Quixel Megascans environment assembly and Runtime Virtual Texture transitions.
“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.
‘Earth’ fights its way to the top
Polar bears, elephants and humpback whales — they are all fighting for the survival of their offspring. Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield travelled around the world for five years and made a documentary film about it. The effort paid off: ‘Earth — The Film’, which entered at number five last week, makes the leap to number one in the media control cinema charts.
Cinema charts: ‘Earth’ unexpectedly in first place
After placing fifth on its opening weekend and increasing from 147 to 286 prints, the nature documentary from Universum Film attracted an impressive 350,000 visitors to German cinemas.
11th eDIT Filmmaker’s Festival: young-talent competition
Who will demonstrate talent and creativity with a 30-second film on the subject of Planet Earth and — win eDward 2008? The best films will be shown at the opening gala of the 11th Filmmaker’s Festival in Frankfurt am Main in September. Cash and non-cash prizes worth around 5,000 euros also await
Green Oscar for ‘Earth’
As part of the ‘Cinema for Peace’ benefit gala, the ‘CleanEnergy Award’ was presented for the first time in Berlin yesterday evening. The unique and breathtaking nature documentary ‘EARTH’ was honoured. The ‘Green Oscar’ distinguishes projects that engage with the subject of the environment in a special way.
NEOS Film Prepares Theatrical Documentary Project About Jane Goodall
Munich-based production company NEOS Film is currently preparing the international co-production “Jane’s Journey”, a documentary by Lorenz Knauer about primatologist and UN Messenger of Peace Jane Goodall.
100-dollar laptop is powered by cows
OLPC technicians seek a cost-effective and efficient energy supply.
With a certificate against climate change
Autodesk is a founding member of the German Sustainable Building Council.
blog.de supports Blog Action Day
Bloggers from all over the world will join together on October 15
to publicly draw attention to an urgent subject.
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.
,eneloop’ Batteries Have Been on the European Market for One Year
SANYO Component Europe GmbH is celebrating: The subsidiary of SANYO Electric Co. Ltd, the worldwide market leader in rechargeable batteries, introduced ,eneloop' to the European market one year ago. Since then, the novel rechargeable battery has already become available in 28 European countries and has sold more than five million times throughout Europe. Worldwide, as many as 30 million units have already crossed the counter (as of April 2007)