Reallusion adds online AI motion capture to iClone: Video Mocap turns footage into editable animation for $2.50 per clip.

lender 4.5 LTS arrives with studio-grade support; the Blender survey shows where users stand; and Blender 5.0 beta is already here, so its time to plan your upgrade.

EditingTools.io brings offline collaboration to live productions with its new Live Timecode Notes Server for macOS.

Twelve museum arthropods, one free app, and an excellent reason to stop swatting your references. Creepy-crawlies in 3D, just in time for Halloween.

Continuum 2026 upgrades AI masking, keying, and transitions. Face ML, Matte Refine ML, and smarter Pixel Chooser save time on tedious isolation work.

Canva folds Affinity into one free-forever app, marking a major shift for design tools and putting the old perpetual-licence model on hold.

FMX 2026 celebrates 30 years of digital media creation. Stuttgart, May 5–8, 2026. Theme: “The Road Ahead”. Book your rooms, time flies.

Update 6 gives Mesh2Motion a new Explore Library, rebuilt Blender rigs, and smarter bones for birds, dragons, and quadrupeds.

The Mill is back. TransPerfect revives the iconic VFX studio with returning talent and a global creative push.

At Adobe MAX 2025, CYME launched “Peakto for Premiere Pro”: a plugin giving editors AI-search across local and shared media without the cloud.

Photoshop 27.0 is official. You get Harmonise, Generative Upscale, Firefly video export, and selectable AI models. Test before rollout.

A new online library offers 25 free HDRIs at up to 29K resolution, all under a CC0 license. Open HDRI provides ultra-high-quality lighting environments without sign-ups, tracking or licensing headaches.

The new plugin 3D Measure Master adds CAD-style measuring tools to 3ds Max, creating editable and renderable geometry for true 3D dimensions.

Environment artist Marcos Frazao releases 120 free semi-modular construction-site assets via Epic’s Fab marketplace. Nanite-ready, 4 K textured, and available for Unreal Engine: no dust, no steel-toed boots, and definitely no hard hats required.

VFX Supervisor Michael Wortmann on how RiseFX built the fantasy of Momo: almost entirely on location, with 280 shots and the best turtle in the business.

Foundry’s Flix 8.0 tightens its Storyboard Pro link, retools shots UI, refines ingest monitoring, still “priced on request”, which probably means “too expensive”.

With Task Force Querlitz, screenwriter Simon Thummet, director Arne Hain and producer Sebastian Simon have achieved something rare: a German adult animation series produced entirely for public broadcaster ZDF. Produced by the Offenbach-based animation and film studio PixelPEC, the show combines Moho and After Effects to deliver 60 minutes of animated anarchy. Despite its clean, colourful style, it refuses to look American.

SLAPSHOT has released its AI Camera Tracking tool: what used to take a day or more can now take under ten minutes according to the developer.

Fluid Flow is a $14 Geometry Nodes add-on for Blender 4.2+, painting real-time water, sand, and lava straight into the viewport.

Digital Anarchy resurrects its Ugly Box and Flicker Freak plugins just in time for Halloween. Free, frightful, and gloriously hideous.

ASUS launches its 32″ 8K HDR Mini-LED monitor, the ProArt PA32KCX with great brightness and pro-features. Not for everyone, but if you edit 8K or need huge desktop real-estate, this is serious.

Free Blender add-on “Outset Boundary” offers an outset tool for expanding faces rather than insetting them, nice for quick margins.

Tool developer Ehsan Bayat has released Vectorify, a free tool for Autodesk Maya that transforms animation repathing from a tedious process into an intuitive and highly visual workflow. Designed for use with Maya 2022 through 2026, the tool integrates seamlessly into production environments and is especially suited for animation cycles involving bipeds and quadrupeds. However, it is not restricted to loops or locomotion sequences: any animation—whether character-based or mechanical—can be repathed within seconds and without breaking keyframe timing.

Thinkbox Deadline 10, the long-standing render-farm management software from AWS Thinkbox, will enter maintenance mode on 7 November 2025. In this state, the software remains operational, but AWS will limit future development to security updates and critical fixes. All feature development and innovation are being redirected toward Deadline Cloud. The AWS product page reinforces the transition, stating:

Orange Turbine’s Retopoflow 4.0 brings full Edit Mode integration in Blender and support for curves/NURBS/metaballs, but one tool is still missing in this release.