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12.06.2026

NeXus Beta Lands in Blender

NeXus arrives in Blender with GPU particles, fluids, smoke, fire and live viewport feedback. The beta is paid, perpetual and already patched.
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Free Komodo Rig for Fun

Free Komodo rig for portfolio work, plus paid tiers for commercial pipelines. Big lizard, small invoice, careful license.
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Free Sci-Fi Station Lands on Fab

Fab gives Unreal artists 147 modular sci-fi assets, 4K textures and LODs for free until 16 June. Space rent remains mercifully absent.
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Imagen Video brings AI grading to timelines

Imagen Video applies AI-based colour correction to Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve timelines using AI Profiles or uploaded LUTs. The pitch is less Hollywood finishing suite, more high-volume editor.
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Houdini 22 Teaser Fuels Guesswork

Houdini 22 looks ambitious, but the teaser is maddeningly brief. Treat every feature reading as informed fan speculation, not documentation.
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Splat happens: Volinga 3DGS workflow for Unreal

Volinga turns photo sets into Gaussian splats for Unreal, with local processing, PLY and NVOL export, cleanup tools, and relighting support. But what does that actually mean? Let's ask some questions!
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Mush3D 3.0 Adds Soft Tissue Tools

Mush3D 3.0 adds pose-trained corrections and tetrahedral soft tissue simulation for artists polishing cached character animation.
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NukeRef Adds References to Nuke

NukeRef lets compositors paste image references into Nuke’s Node Graph as interactive backdrops. Tiny script, big sanity gain.
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Chrysalis

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3DCoat 2026 gets GPU nodes

3DCoat 2026 beta adds GPU node texturing, procedural smart materials and masks. Shiny, useful and still beta-shaped.
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DaVinci Resolve 21 Leaves Beta

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Fridays for Fusion: Bend It

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Image Blaster turns images into Splats

image-blaster uses a single reference image to generate an SPZ Gaussian splat environment via Marble, written as local files you can inspect and iterate fast.
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C4D Octane: 1.9.x Update Features Video

SilverwingVFX digs into the new juicy features delivered via the most recent Octane update for Cinema 4D. Learn what's improved so you can get the best out of Octane.

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