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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.
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.
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.
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?