AI-powered tool transfers lighting from images to UE5 environments 🏙 Developer Alex L. shared a demo showcasing the capabilities of Reverie, an AI worldbuilding tool for Unreal Engine that can recognize, extract, and categorize lighting, visual effects, and even the soundscape of images and implement them into 3D environments powered by Unreal in just a few minutes.

Miyazaki-inspired 3D animation in Blender 🍃 Bird Chen, a fan of retro anime and arcade games, shared a stunning 3D animation that could be easily mistaken for 2D animation at first glance. Using Blender and its different tools, the artist crafted a scene inspired by Hayao Miyazaki's final work adding nice little touches in the open-source toolkit like wind-blown hair and swaying grass.

Mushroom generator in Blender 🍄 Yet another amazing procedural generator by Pavel Oliva. The artist demonstrated a cool new tool, made with Blender's Geometry Nodes, that lets you grow mushrooms with just one stroke.

3D Paths in Substance 3D Painter 🎨 The Adobe Substance 3D team always amazes me with their ability to continue implementing innovative tools with new updates to their tools. This time, the team released a new tool that allows you to paint paths and curves in the 3D viewport. It works like a regular brush on paint layers and effects but is created by placing points or vertices, which allows you to modify any part of your path. A game changer in texturing, period.

Mecha cat in Blender & Substance 3D 😼 Sabrina Garcia made this awesome mecha-kitty, a project that puts a simple cat into a high-tech mech suit. The project was modeled, rigged, and animated in Blender, and textured with Substance 3D.