27.08.2026

Softie Adds XPBD Collisions to Blender

Softie combines fast Geometry Nodes deformation with an experimental XPBD mode for soft contact, self-collision and interactive sculpting.

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PBR Generator bakes 3ds Max materials

Leonid Kychko's 3ds Max script bakes complex shader networks into texture sets and rebuilds them for V-Ray or Physical Material.

27.08.2026

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Command Frame: After Effects macros without writing scripts

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A split-screen view in Marvelous Designer shows a red garment torn apart into floating panels around a humanoid form. The left side presents the ragged 3D model on a dark gray workspace, while the right side shows a similar ripped version inside a rounded white preview panel against a lighter interface.

Marvelous Designer 2026.1 Rips Seams

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Blackmagic Adds Script Hooks and Pre-Record

Resolve gains script access to timeline selections and render settings, while Cinema Camera 6K gets up to 10 minutes of pre-record.

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MXL: One Acronym to Know for 2027

You do not need to rebuild a facility around MXL today. But if software-defined live production keeps spreading, know this acronym before 2027.

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LUT Tuner Makes LUTs Tunable in Resolve

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Fridays for Fusion: Mug Advanced Halftone

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A dark software interface shows a searchable asset library filled with thumbnail previews of modern table and desk designs in a grid. A search bar near the bottom contains the query “cube glass coffee table,” while a navigation sidebar lines the left edge and soft blue highlighting marks the active search area.

Project Manager 4.01 speaks asset search

Project Manager adds local AI text search across 30-plus languages, reference-image search and a 12-language interface for 3ds Max libraries.

A dark-blue promotional banner for Scantic shows five iPhone screens in a row, each highlighting a different 3D scanning feature. Bright white headlines such as “Turn Reality Into 3D,” “Rooms, Cars & Objects,” and “Build 3D Right on iPhone” sit above the phones, with purple glow accents and photo-based interfaces creating a sleek, futuristic look.

Gaussian splats on the iPhone?

Scantic captures and reconstructs 3D Gaussian splats locally on an iPhone, keeping the acquisition and processing pipeline off the cloud.

A promotional graphic for the Cut Plane interactive bisect tool shows a gray wireframe bust of a classical statue on the right, sliced by a tilted orange plane outlined over a blue circle. On the left, bold blue and orange text and a small cube icon sit on a pale background, creating a clean, technical layout.

Cut Plane Makes Blender Bisects Interactive

Cut Plane turns Blender mesh bisecting into a live, positionable operation with snapping, mirrored cuts, numeric input and selective editing.

A dark-themed Media Plane video-editing workspace in Maya shows a central preview with three clips layered together: a cheetah running across grassy ground, a man in a studio-like room, and a portrait of a blond man in a green shirt. Below, the timeline displays stacked video and audio tracks with a red playhead, while panels and toolbars frame the interface in a compact, technical layout.

Media Plane adds nonlinear editing to Maya

Gizmify brings clip editing, retiming, compositing and scripted reference workflows directly into Maya with the beta Media Plane Editor.

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Ornatrix 4 Expands C4D Grooming

Warp Roots, procedural hair-card textures, improved clumping and Unreal colour export extend Ornatrix grooming inside Cinema 4D.

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