19+ hour, 1+ min ago  (1317+ words) The splash screen art for Blender 5.2: an image from artist Joanna Kobierska. The Blender Foundation has released Blender 5.2, the latest version of the open-source 3D software for VFX, animation, game development and visualization. Although it’s officially a Long-Term Support release, it’s…...

1+ mon, 2+ hour ago  (1531+ words) LightWave Digital has released LightWave 2026, the next major version of the veteran 3D animation and rendering software for VFX, motion graphics and visualization work. It’s a wide-ranging update, introducing major new features including a new physics-based scene layout system, a vehicle…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (644+ words) The Pixel Farm has released PFTrack 26.05.19, the latest version of its 3D camera tracking app. It’s a sizeable update, adding a new set of tools for generating dense point clouds from camera solves, and exporting them in USD format, or as…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (309+ words) The update makes it possible to run the generative AI model used by the Remove tool for object removal locally, rather than in the cloud. Users already had the option to choose whether to use generative AI to create the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (556+ words) It’s a sizeable update, particularly to the AI toolset, with a neat new Rotate Object feature making it possible to rotate 2D cutout images within compositions as if they were 3D objects. A new Remove Reflections feature automatically removes reflections from large…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (818+ words) Human skin texture library Texturing XYZ has launched SKAP, an interesting new online service for enhancing skin textures for digital humans, VFX and game characters. It takes an existing 3D character model with 2K to 8K textures and generates 16K textures based on them,…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (271+ words) It’s mainly a bugfix release, but it updates the Generate Similar option in the Generative Fill and Generative Expand features to use Adobe’s new Firefly Fill and Expand AI model. You can read a comparison between Firefly Fill and Expand…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (389+ words) The update adds two new adjustment layers – Clarity and Dehaze, and Grain – and improves support when using reference images to guide the generative AI-based Generative Fill system. Grain, not surprisingly, mimics the look of analogue film grain, removing the need…...