Check out the week's other updates to CG tools, like animation library builder Animcraft, game engine Unigine, and ...

Adobe has released After Effects 26.5, the latest version of the compositing software for motion graphics, post-production and VFX work. It’s a workflow and performance update, adding support for disk ...

The playable demo for FluidNinja Live 2, the new version of the popular Unreal Engine visual effects system, running on a mid-range Windows PC with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU. Developer Andras Ketzer ...

3D artist Milad Kambari has released Smart Remesh, a promising Blender retopology add-on for a range of users, from games artists, to hard-surface modelers, to character artists. The tool, which has ...

CLO Virtual Fashion has released Marvelous Designer 2026.0, the latest version of the 3D clothing design software for game development, animation and visual effects. The update adds new tools for ...

FabricatorStudio – aka games artist Adrian Melian – has released Armature, an AI-assisted standalone character rigging and skinning tool for games, animation and VFX work. It imports 3D character and ...

Autodesk has open-sourced Golaem for Houdini, Golaem for Unreal Engine and Golaem for USD, its plugins for loading Golaem simulation caches procedurally inside other DCC apps. Source code for the ...

Reallusion has released AccuFace 2, the latest version of its AI video mocap plugin for iClone, its character animation software for games, VFX and motion graphics work. The update introduces a new AI ...

3D scanning tools developer Kiri Innovations has released a free Gaussian Splatting Plugin for After Effects, making it possible to use 3DGS scans inside After Effects compositions. The open-source ...

Reallusion has released RTX Render, a new path traced rendering mode for Character Creator and iClone, in open beta. The new mode makes it possible to render 3D characters inside the character ...

Pixar’s feature reel for RenderMan 27. The free Non-Commercial edition of the renderer is available now, and includes most of the features from the commercial edition. Pixar has released the free ...

Originally posted on 7 December 2026, and updated with details of Red Giant 2026.5. Maxon has begun its 2026 series of updates to Red Giant, its suite of effects plugins for compositing and editing ...