For those who don’t know the tool: Ucupaint is Yusuf Umar’s free, layer-based texture painting add-on for Blender. It organises images, generated textures and colour attributes into layers and masks ...

Sony’s RIALTO 65 adds 9.6K 65mm capture to VENICE 2, with dual-base ISO, 16-bit X-OCN and a detachable head. Shipping is planned for 2027.

When postproduction needs a building, shot layout or 3D-printed greeblies, SketchUp 2027 offers approachable modeling with smarter procedural tools.

For those who don’t know the tool: Procedural Canvas is Alexander Klymak’s visual reference board for SideFX Houdini. It holds images, sketches, notes, VEX snippets and viewport snapshots inside a ...

Nuke 18 beta connects Griptape workflows, refines splat editing and adds cut detection, clearer errors, HEVC decoding and ...

TenPix Cloth adds GPU cloth modifiers to 3ds Max, with triangle collisions, painted controls, deformation preservation and ...

It is 30 October. Christmas Day is exactly eight weeks away. If your company has just decided it needs the best Christmas ...

IlluGen 2.0 adds GPU particles, fracture, pivot animation textures and Niagara exports. Here is the technical detail, including the 2.0.1 follow-up.

ValTerra brings city context, sun planning and drone-photo camera matching into 3ds Max, with a full trial, free Lite tier ...

Fumaris brings interactive GPU smoke and fire to Blender, with OpenVDB bakes and safer cache handling. Seasonal greetings can ...

Plasticity 2026.2 adds reusable assets, live constraints, Project Align and finer surface controls. Some relationships remain strictly session-based. Plasticity 2026.2 gives the repeatedly rebuilt ...