2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1055+ words) Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 5. 8, the latest version of the game engine, also now widely used for offline animation, visual effects and visualization work. Although Epic describes the focus of the release as "performance advancements, it's still a huge…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (463+ words) Epic Games has made a detailed model of a 3 D castle available to download for free from Fab, its online marketplace. Games artist Dmitriy Dryzhak's modular 3 D asset White Castle is part of the latest set of time-limited free content…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago  (752+ words) Chaos has released V-Ray for Blender, Update 3 (V-Ray 7. 30. 20 for Blender), the latest update to the new version of its ray tracing renderer for Blender. The release makes the software available for Linux as well as Windows and mac OS, adds…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (722+ words) Quad Spinner has released Gaea 2. 3, the latest version of the terrain design tool. The update introduces a new macro system, making it possible to package entire node graphs into a single node and reuse them in other graphs, plus support…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago  (1531+ words) Light Wave Digital has released Light Wave 2026, the next major version of the veteran 3 D 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…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago  (425+ words) Rigging Supervisor and animation tools developer Gregor Weiss has released a free bear rig, created with BEAR, his Maya character rig builder. The asset, which is provided in Maya's MB format, includes both a full-body and facial rig, and can…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago  (665+ words) The Open 3 D Foundation has released Open 3 D Engine 26. 05 (O3 DE 26. 05), the latest version of the open-source game engine. The release adds an experimental new native particle system, support for Ag X and Khronos PBR Neutral tonemapping, and automatic LOD generation....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (640+ words) Maxon has released Cinema 4 D 2026. 3, the latest version of its 3 D software for motion graphics, VFX and visualization work. It's a significant update for day-to-day work, introducing a new UV Editor with more advanced features and better integration with Cinema…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (528+ words) The Gnomon Workshop has released Creating a Real-Time Horse Groom for Games, a guide to creating and optimizing hair and fur grooms recorded by CFX Supervisor Guillermo Cort's. The intermediate-to-advanced workshop provides over two hours of video training in Maya,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (630+ words) 3 D scanning tools developer Kiri Innovations has released 3 DGS Render 5. 0, the latest version of its open-source tool for visualizing 3 D Gaussian Splats inside Blender. The update makes it possible to animate Gaussian Splats inside Blender by baking animation to them…...