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SuperSplat 3 Moves Editing to WebGPU
SuperSplat 3 rebuilds its Gaussian-splat editor on WebGPU, shrinking browser memory use and moving sorting, selection and more onto the GPU.
Audacity 4 Rebuilds the Fast Audio Editor
Audacity 4 replaces old tool modes with contextual editing, clip grouping, ripple commands and a Qt UI while keeping its free desktop role.
Open-Source Photogrammetry Gets Friendlier
Simple Photogrammetry GUI bundles an open-source reconstruction stack behind a friendly UI, now with beta AMD/HIP support and useful logs.
Golaem opens Houdini and Unreal bridges
Autodesk has published Golaem’s Houdini and Unreal cache bridges under Apache 2.0, with procedural loading, Layout edits and no geometry bake.
AutoRemesher Final Goes MIT
AutoRemesher reaches its final release under MIT, adding target quads, CLI operation and builds for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Material Maker 1.7 improves graph workflow
Material Maker 1.7 improves graph editing, adds a Dynamic Sky material, updates nodes and brings the open-source tool to Steam.
Overgrown targets an open feature pipeline for Blender
Blender Studio is pushing Overgrown as a feature project with production logs, tools and docs, funded first through subscriber growth.
O3DE 26.05 Gets Native Particles
O3DE 26.05 adds native particles, AgX, automatic LODs and PhysX 5 defaults. The particle Gem still carries a production warning.
Sneeze Brings a Browser Engine to Spatial 3D
Sneeze applies the browser-engine model to spatial services, combining multi-origin 3D scenes, WASM isolation and proximity discovery.
Let’s Animate Splats in 3DGS Render?
3DGS Render 5.0 lets Blender artists drive Gaussian splats with proxy meshes, bake lighting and export animation as PLY sequences.
ZOZO Contact Solver gets Blender add-on
Official Blender add-on client for Contact Solver is out, open source, remote GPU friendly, and already shipping updates like armature deformable colliders.
Blender Singularity lands in 4K HDR
Singularity drops as a 4K HDR short, with free downloads of assets and encodes. Also: painterly brushstrokes meet procedural crowds.
PlayCanvas updates SplatTransform to 2.0
SplatTransform 2.0 brings sparse voxel grids, new GPU cleanup filters, URL inputs, and a new coplanar merge path. Less splat chaos, more control.
Anthropic funds Blender, ships Claude connector
Claude gets a Blender connector, plus patron money for Blender core work. Your pipeline gets a new helper. Your lawyers get new reading.
TweenFX is your free Friday tween sidequest
TweenFX is a free MIT-licensed tween animation plugin for Godot 4, with a demo release updated on 25 Feb 2026.
DJV 3.3.3 fixes flipped export and adds Escape
DJV 3 brings sequence-aware browsing, expanded shortcuts, OCIO UI updates and flipped export fixes through 3.3.3.
Mansur Rig 3.0 Goes Free and Open Source Lite
Mansur Rig 3.0 drops activation, goes partially open source, adds Maya 2026 support on Windows, and warns older versions stop working after March 2026.
SMPTE updates its AI report: a roadmap for media engineers
SMPTE’s revised AI report defines where AI stands in media: open source, agentic systems, security, ethics, and data. Read before you automate.
Blender 5.0 hits release candidate!
Blender 5.0’s release candidate is live. Expect ACES 2.0, smarter Geometry Nodes, and a sleeker UI before the final launch later this month.
Mesh2Motion Update 6 Adds Explore Library and Rebuilt Rigs
Update 6 gives Mesh2Motion a new Explore Library, rebuilt Blender rigs, and smarter bones for birds, dragons, and quadrupeds.
Edit: Microsoft’s Tiny Text Editor Sneaks into the Terminal
Microsoft's new open-source CLI editor, Edit, comes to Windows 11 - keyboard-only, small-footprint, and intentionally not Vim.
EZ Tree: Your Next Tree’s Just a Click Away
Free, open-source, lightweight and Python-based: EZ Tree procedurally generates trees for 3D workflows – via GUI or command line.
Gear 5.0 Beta 6: Rigging Tool Gets 2026-Ready
mGear 5.0 Beta 6 brings Maya 2026 support, improved guide templates, updated Shifter components, and new logic for picker selection.
TD Meetup 15: Open Source Pipeline Plex
Plex is an Visual Effects, Animation and Games pipeline that manages critical workflows during production.
SuperSplat 2.0: Splatting Just Got Supercharged!
SuperSplat 2.0 introduces HTML viewer export, Timeline for camera animations, new project file format, and AR/VR modes.
Supersplat! Open-Source 3D Editor Adds Animated Gaussian Splats
The open-source 3D graphics editor just upped its game with support for animated Gaussian splats, offering new possibilities for real-time graphics.
MoonRay 1.7: DreamWorks’ Renderer Gets a Shiny Update
DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 1.7, introducing PortalLight, enhanced NVIDIA GPU acceleration, and Cryptomatte support in hdMoonRay.
Blender 4.3: Updates for Animation, VFX, and Rendering
Blender 4.3 introduces light linking, a Metallic BSDF node, F82 Tint, enhanced compositing features, and updates for geometry nodes and simulations.
Academy Software Foundation Welcomes OpenAPV as a New Codec Standard
Academy Software Foundation adopts OpenAPV, Samsung's royalty-free codec for high-quality, space-efficient video production.
How to Persuade Competing VFX Studios to Cooperate
How can you get a number of companies that are in extreme competition with each other and, therefore, do not trust each other to work together? You introduce an independent third organization in which all competitors are jointly involved.
Inkscape 1.4 Released
Inkscape 1.4 is now available, delivering significant performance upgrades and new tools that will benefit digital artists, VFX…
Google Blocks now open source
Google releases its VR modelling app "Blocks" as open source. Building virtual worlds - now you can do it yourself!
Drawing with VR glasses – and in 3D space?
Open Brush 2.0, the latest version of the open-source VR sketching app, introduces an eight-layer system. A release note.
Open source reviewing tool from DNEG?
After Autodesk's RV recently took the open source step, xStudio is now jumping on the bandwagon of VFX-size DNEG! When is itview from Sony Pictures Imageworks coming?
Open source plug-ins from Amazon Web Services!
Free plug-ins from the cloud computing provider AWS. Among them: Plug-ins that have already been used by VFX house Scanline for major productions such as Aquaman.
Render Farm Management Software from Blender Studio released!
Version 3 of Flamenco is open source and free of charge, suitable for individuals and small teams. Available for Windows, Linux and Mac.
Open-source playback & reviewing tools for creative professionals?
Academy Software Foundation is working on a standardised toolset for playback, reviewing and approval loops. Also involved are: Autodesk, DNEG and Sony Pictures Imageworks.
Autodesk’s reviewing and playback tool RV becomes open source!
The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) has a soft spot for open source tools. More and more free DCC helpers thanks to more and more sandbox projects?
Software developer releases Material Maker 1.0
The free alternative to Substance 3D Designer and Substance 3D Painter? The source-free Material Maker appears in its first pre-decimal place!
XStudio: New reviewing software from DNEG is coming!
An open-source multifunctional tool flutters towards VFXers? The playback-slash-reviewing-slash-editing-slash-grading prodigy from Double Negative will be released this year. What can it do (and what can't it do)?
Microsoft 3D Movie Maker now open source!
Filmmaking like it's 1995: Microsoft makes the source code of 3D Movie Maker freely accessible. Out of time, or timeless retro charm?
Cesium Brings Global 3D Data to O3DE
Cesium for O3DE adds a WGS84 globe, 3D Tiles streaming, Script Canvas integration and Cesium ion geospatial content.
Krita Foundation Releases Krita 5.0!
These key features will brush you away: Storyboard editor, time-lapse function – but what actually is tweening?
Unity Libre Fracture Released as Open Source
Dmitry Senyushkin's free open-source Unity Libre Fracture system uses Nvidia Blast wrappers and VHACD for destructible concave meshes.
Cesium for Unreal Brings Global 3D Geospatial Data to Unreal Engine
The free, open-source Cesium for Unreal plugin connected Unreal Engine projects with high-resolution global 3D geospatial data.
AMD Releases Open-Source USD Hydra Add-on for Blender
AMD’s beta USD Hydra add-on enabled USD import, scene creation, Hydra rendering and USD export from Blender, with MaterialX support.
FreeMoCap Project Targets Low-Cost Markerless Motion Capture
Jonathan Matthis presented FreeMoCap, an open-source framework designed to generate full-body motion capture from two USB webcams.
Academy Software Foundation Hosts Open Source Days 2021
The Academy Software Foundation’s two-day Open Source Days conference covered projects for VFX, animation and image creation.
Synth Eyes 2106 | Release
Better tracking with these eyes: The latest version of the 3D tracking software from Andersson Technologies.
Appleseed Approaches Production Readiness
The open-source Appleseed renderer targets animation and VFX with OSL, SeExpr, motion blur, spectral rendering and a permissive MIT licence.
MakeHuman 1.2 Adds MakeSkin, Mass Produce and Blender Integration
MakeHuman 1.2 delivers its first major update in four years, with new material, character-generation and Blender integration tools.
Radeon ProRender 2.5 for Blender Enters Beta
AMD released a free Radeon ProRender 2.5 beta for Blender with updated next-generation rendering and viewport frame-rate controls.
OctaneRender 2021 Preview Adds Hydra Support and Ampere Improvements
OTOY previewed OctaneRender 2021 with a revised AOV system, improved Nvidia Ampere performance, Hydra rendering and an RNDR+ bundle.
Radeon ProRender 3.0 Adds RX 6000 Ray Tracing and UDIM Support
AMD’s Radeon ProRender 3.0 for Blender adds hardware-accelerated ray tracing, contour rendering and UDIM workflows.
Learning Character Rigging with Blender’s Rigify Add-on
Todor Nikolov’s Rigify tutorial series explains armatures, meta-rigs, custom character rigs, bone groups and posing in Blender.
Ray Tracer Sandbox Enables Real-Time PBR Shader Testing with Vulkan
The open-source Ray Tracer Sandbox lets artists create and test physically based shaders in real time with prepared scenes and assets.
Working with the SubSpline Script in 3ds Max
Jamie Cardoso’s second SubSpline tutorial demonstrates a scripting workflow for 3ds Max artists.
Moving Between ZBrush and Blender with GoB
Morten and Henning explain how to configure GoB for fast, practical asset transfer between ZBrush and Blender.
Creating Atmospheric Blender Eevee Renders
Curtis Holt demonstrates how to build a cinematic spaceship scene and produce atmospheric real-time renders with Blender Eevee.
Using Scene Data and Mathematics with OSL in 3ds Max
Changsoo Eun’s third OSL mini-tutorial shows how scene data and straightforward mathematics can drive shaders in 3ds Max.
Autodesk RV 2021 Adds Python 3 and New Versioning
Autodesk RV 2021 updated the VFX image viewer and playback system with Python 3.7.6, a new naming convention and version availability policy.
Natron Development Continues
Until recently, the open-source compositing program's outlook was poor due to a lack of developers—now it appears to be continuing.
Autodesk provides the open-source community with a new FDO provider for MS SQL Server 2008
Autodesk will make its Feature Data Object (FDO) provider for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 available to the open-source community.
Software patent litigation: Billions in costs for companies
US initiative takes up the fight against software patents
Adobe AIR and Flex 3 Now Available
The final versions of Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex 3 are now available, providing a new platform for rich internet applications.
Berlinale Keynotes Examine Film 2.0
More than 350 industry professionals attended the 2008 Berlinale Keynotes on collaboration among film, games and Web 2.0.
Alternative search engine Wikia launches
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launched his open search engine Wikia Search online on Monday. As with the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, users are intended to participate in developing Wiki Search.
AOL Lets Netscape Die
The Netscape Navigator Internet browser, which shaped the beginnings of the web revolution, is at an end. From February onward, the Internet group AOL will no longer release security updates.
Adobe Opens BlazeDS and AMF Technologies
Adobe plans to release its remoting and messaging code as BlazeDS, with the AMF protocol specification under LGPL v3.
Wikipedia Founder Takes Aim at Google with New Project
The founder of the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, wants to compete with the world's largest Internet search engine Google with a new project.
Forum Software phpBB Focuses on the Mobile Web
Version 3.0 promises security and easier administration.
desktop4education – Video Training from video2brain as Teaching Material at Austrian Schools
video2brain received an order for a nationwide campaign: The “OpenOffice.org” video training were licensed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Culture for use at Austrian schools.
OpenOffice Now Available in Online Version
Microsoft gains another competitor in the online office sector.
Mobile Phone Version of Firefox Planned
Browser is to come to mobile phones with full functionality.
Adobe: Flex Builder 2 free for pupils and students
Adobe supports the education sector with its Web 2.0 technology
IPTV Work in Progress: BBC Brings Adobe on Board
A platform-independent Flash player is intended to calm tempers.
Kaspersky Lab integrates PhishTank database into Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0
Kaspersky Lab is now integrating the PhishTank database into the anti-phishing module of Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0. The PhishTank service from the Californian company OpenDNS collects known phishing websites in a database that is constantly updated by the international open-source community. Kaspersky Lab has also been actively participating in this project for some time and supplements the PhishTank database with its own information about phishing sites.
3D Mice Now Also for Blender Users
The 3D mice from 3Dconnexion now support Blender, a free open-source software package for Digital Content Creation. With the 3D mice, Blender users design, model, texture and animate interactive three-dimensional content more easily and quickly than with only a standard mouse and keyboard.
BBC’s IPTV offering triggers wave of protest
At the weekend, the BBC launched its new IPTV service for the first time. There were protests among Mac user.
Flash Player 9 for Linux
Adobe skipped version 8 on the Linux platforms. Flash Player 9 is now available
Webcuts 06 Awards Web Cats
The festival in Berlin honored the best Internet short films/ winner is “Video 3000”
Flash Player 9 available
Adobe promises higher performance, improved programming model for optimal presentation of dynamic web content
Jahshaka: New version
The open-source project Jahshaka presents a new version of its eponymous compositing tool for all major platforms
Blender 2.41 Released
Only one month after the last update, Blender is now available for download in version 2.41. This time, the internal game engine is the focus of the improvements.