For those who don’t know the tool: Procedural Canvas is Alexander Klymak’s visual reference board for SideFX Houdini. It holds images, sketches, notes, VEX snippets and viewport snapshots inside a ...

It is 30 October. Christmas Day is exactly eight weeks away. If your company has just decided it needs the best Christmas video ever, congratulations on getting an excellent head start on 2027.

Fumaris brings interactive GPU smoke and fire to Blender, with OpenVDB bakes and safer cache handling. Seasonal greetings can get complicated.

Digital Anarchy’s free Ugly Box puts skin retouching to sinister use. Here’s how it works, where Beauty Box differs and what Flicker Freak adds.

TenPix Cloth adds GPU cloth modifiers to 3ds Max, with triangle collisions, painted controls, deformation preservation and Alembic caching.

Nuke 18 beta connects Griptape workflows, refines splat editing and adds cut detection, clearer errors, HEVC decoding and more useful node inputs.

IlluGen 2.0 adds GPU particles, fracture, pivot animation textures and Niagara exports. Here is the technical detail, including the 2.0.1 follow-up.

ValTerra brings city context, sun planning and drone-photo camera matching into 3ds Max, with a full trial, free Lite tier and perpetual licences.

Ditherfactory brings 27 dithering algorithms to After Effects with CPU rendering and an offline license. It offers animation-ready controls.

HSHL seeks an acting professor for media production. Bring your practical experience into teaching and help shape the next generation. Apply by 30 November.

Pulldownit 6.6 adds fracture erasing, border chipping and source replacement, plus faster re-shattering and undo for Maya.

Painter 12.2 adds local cage painting, quad-loop fills and controllable transparency sorting, with important limits for baking and selection.