Kitbash3D expands its city collection with New Delhi, a 3D kit blending modern and colonial architecture.

The VES nominations are out: Robots, demons, apes, aliens, cities on fire, cities underwater and cities that should probably not exist at all. If your GPU is sweating just reading the project list, you are doing it right. Full list of nominated projects and artists on Digital Production.

Stop faking it: real 3D clouds, fog and parallax in Nuke, Compositing Academy’s new Volumetric Noise plugin delivers true depth.

Foundry confirms Nuke, Mari and Katana will be subscription-only from 2027. No more perpetuals.

Freee browser based tree generator: EZ-Tree makes 3D trees you can tweak and export as GLB or PNG.

D5 Render 3.0 brings oceans, clouds, and image-to-3D AI plus a new lightweight D5 Lite for SketchUp.

EC Wood Grain brings fully procedural, volumetric wood grain to Blender’s Geometry Nodes workflow.

Maxon previews Digital Twin, an application that generates consistent photoreal product visuals from CAD and 3D for marketing.

Pulldownit 6.5 for Maya brings non-destructive fracturing, Xref support, and a cleaner UI for faster, reversible shattering.

CardCutter for Blender builds Nanite-ready meshes straight from texture masks.

Only two weeks into the year, it is time to bury your resolutions in style.

Free plugin lets you bend light and fake gravity inside After Effects. The easiest way to manipulate mass if you don’t have a particle accelerator handy.

Five years, seven TB, one artist. How Maxim Gehricke made his solo 3D film SEN from concept to final render.

Reallusion expands its software licensing: iClone, Character Creator and Cartoon Animator now offer subscriptions, while AccuPOSE INFINITY becomes a one time purchase.

Apple’s pro apps go subscription: Creator Studio bundles Final Cut and Logic, but the updates aren’t exactly fresh.

New year’s resolution: more fresh fruit? Kiri’s got you covered with 141 free 3D-scanned fruits and veggies, ready for any render.

Turns out your laptop might run your next virtual production stage. Read why Live FX calls itself the “nervous system. A single machine that drives LED walls, controls the lights, composites your plate, and keeps everything in colour-managed sync. Interested ?

BlenderKit just dropped 1,000+ free sculpting brushes right inside Blender. No excuses left: start sculpting wrinkles now. ALL THE WRINKLES.

Better Bend by NZJ 3D adds clean, controllable bending to Blender’s Geometry Nodes: no empties, just pure procedural precision.

Quick toon lines for Blender: RUIDO VFX’s new add-on makes NPR outlines a one-click job.

The world’s on fire, might as well comp it: ActionVFX drops 30 free flamethrower clips till 13 Jan 2026. Hotter than the headlines.

80 free modular temple assets on Fab, optimised for Unreal Engine 5. For your game or your cult.

Poser 14 refines PBR setup and backgrounds, but loses the Cloth Room and macOS edition. Windows-only, cheaper, and simpler.

PFTrack 2025 gets smarter tracking, new lens models, and perpetual licences back on the menu.

Human motion, but wrong. Very wrong. Digital Domain explains how the Skeleton Man was built to survive firelight, transformations, and unforgiving close-ups in "It: Welcome to Derry."

Outliner Preview adds instant 360° hover-over object previews to Blender’s Outliner panel.

3DEqualizer 8.1 brings piggyback rig solves and a new Blender exporter.

MoonRay 2.34.0.1 adds a ray path visualiser, smoother Linux builds, and fewer subsurface meltdowns. Debug those rays in style.

BagaCam OSL turns Blender cameras into real lenses with OSL-driven optical effects.

Cinebench 2026 lands with new Redshift scenes and SMT tests. Because yes, your last benchmark was probably from the streaming boom.

AOUSD has released OpenUSD Core Specification 1.0, the first ratified core standard defining composition, value resolution, USDA, USDC, USDZ formats, and a compliance framework for OpenUSD interoperability.

That’s It for This Year: Digital Production Wishes You Happy Holidays Digital Production is taking a short end-of-year break. Back up your data, sort out the chaos folder, enjoy the holidays, and we will be back next year.

Finally, a Godot plugin that rewards your bugs with explosions.

Blender’s new retopo tools speak fluent Quad Draw. Vulkan required, courage optional.

FMX 2026 warms up with shape-shifting VFX, AI philosophy and open calls for projects. Mark 5–7 May in your calendar before the deadline shapeshifts away.

Blackmagic Camera 10.0 adds pre-record, 4-channel audio, and smart fans. Cameras now think before they spin.

Plasticity 2025.3: Now with Instances, Curves and Clouds Plasticity 2025.3 drops a full toolset refresh: live instancing, SVG export, real-time curvature and continuity feedback, new materials and precision tools.

SMPTE just rewrote the manual on AI in media. From ethics to open source to MCP, it’s the report every VFX-Worker should actually read.

Kiri Engine drops Mesh Wrap: a Blender add-on that wraps and scatters 3D-scanned terrains with just a few clicks.

Free holiday treat from Boris FX: SynthEyes Essentials training, three hours of pro matchmove know-how, free until 31 December.

Procedural trees that paint themselves: ShapeScape Studio grows painterly forests right inside Blender’s EEVEE.

KeenTools 2025.3 expands host support with Blender 5, Character Creator 5 export and Alembic from GeoTracker.

Chaos gives Blender’s V-Ray users AI tools, macOS support, and a massive changelog in Update 2.

Substance 3D Designer 15.1: Adobe tidies the node graph, tames noise nodes, and adds sample materials for faster starts.

Sculpt like it’s elastic: Leopoly’s Shapelab Max 2026 introduces Pixar-style deformation and a rebuilt gizmo for VR and desktop.

Chaos Vantage steps into the Maya and Houdini viewports. Real-time GPU feedback, fewer roundtrips, faster lookdev for big scenes.

NSYDIUM Fused 2025.4 updates NeXus with faster GPU simulations and introduces Jidou, a procedural animation toolkit. Wanna play?

Mocha Pro 2026: AI edges, cleaner solves, and a classic curve editor reborn.

Unreal’s once invite-only rigging workshop is now free and open: learn Control Rig the proper way.

CityEngine 2025.1 introduces new CGA geometry editing, no-code facade components, improved street attributes, and a beta Python 3 API. Get your City of Dreams done now! (And call a therapist if your ultimate dream world involves extended street attributes)