Rendering your own 3D studio is easier than it was in 2005. Light it with a free CC0 studio HDRI for believable reflections on desks and screens, then follow the Blender loop tutorial. (3D Valley is a sister project run by the same team as News In 3D.)
On air since 2005 · virtual sets & broadcast graphics
Make your stream or newsroom look like a broadcast.
News In 3D used to sell virtual news sets and looped 3D animation. Today it is a free toolkit for anyone producing news, talk shows or live streams on a green screen or LED wall. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Free tools
Tool
Lower-third generator
Name straps as transparent PNG, a live OBS browser-source link or an animated HTML file.
Tool
NEWNews ticker generator
A scrolling crawl for OBS, vMix or any browser source. Type your headlines, copy the link.
Tool
NEWTeleprompter
Full-screen prompter with mirror mode, speed control and read-time estimate.
Calculator
NEWBitrate & file-size calculator
Stream bitrate, recording size and upload headroom, with YouTube's published presets.
Tool
Safe-area checker
Overlay EBU action/title safe, 4:3 centre cut and 9:16 crop guides on your frame.
Tool
Looping background maker
Seamless animated backgrounds (grid, bokeh, waves, snow) recorded as WebM.
Build the set behind you
Guide
Building a virtual news set
Static plate, virtual camera or tracked: the decisions that matter.
Guide
Green-screen keying
Lighting, spill, cloth vs paint and keyer settings that actually work.
Tutorial
Looping studio in Blender
Loop maths, cyclic F-curves, HDRI lighting and render settings.
Who this is for
Local TV and campus stations, YouTube news channels, corporate town-halls, esports desks and teachers recording lessons. New to the jargon? The broadcast glossary explains 49 terms in plain English.