Simon Thommes has released B'rn, a free animatable volumetric fire shader for Blender that allows the user to create fully volumetric fire with several options without having to do any kind of simulation. Find out more and download from Gumroad.

Quixel has announced several changes to its Megascans subscription plans that give users access to a library of photoscanned assets and material creation software. (more...)

Though it's been around a while, we hadn't covered Prague-based Ivan Kutskir's Photopea, a free online browser-based image editor with a more than passing resemblance to Photoshop. It supports several file formats including PSD, JPG, PNG, SVG, XCF, Sketch, XD and CDR formats.  You can try it on photopea.com and find out more about the application on product's blog. 

Spline Dynamics has released Spline Refiner, a plugin for 3DS Max that subdivides splines without changing their fundamental shape. (more...)

Serif has announced that that new versions of its photo editing and vector drawing application are now available in beta. Read a full list of what's included in the announcements for Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer on the Affinity Spotlight blog.

Foundry has announced the latest version of Flix, its collaborative story development tool. (more...)

Respected archviz artist Bertrand Benoit has published the results of his recent experiments with Dabarti Capture, Forest Pack and V-Ray GPU to create photorealistic fabrics. See the results on his blog. 

3D Flow has announced the latest release of 3D Zephyr, its image-based modelling software. Version 4.3 includes:  (more...)