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Read our FAQs on what the buyout of the AI orchestration and generative AI tools firm means for users of Foundry apps like Nuke.

Check out the eye-catching rigs now possible with the 'next-level' update to Zoo Tools Pro's modular rig-building system for Maya.

Heavyweight lighting and look development tool gets a new 'UsdSuperLayer' and a preview of Hydra 2.0 rendering.

Check out the new features in this varied update to the increasingly popular toolkit for hard surface and organic modeling in Houdini.

Check out the new features in this powerful set of geometry optimization tools for games and VFX work. Free to indie artists.

Check out the latest changes to the match-moving software for pro VFX, including a new Maya export script. Now free to trial for 14 days.

Check out the new features in former Lucasfilm developer Darby Johnston's open-source image viewer for VFX and animation work.

Get started with the professional 3D software with the latest of Eric Keller's popular series of beginners' tutorials for The Gnomon Workshop.

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including new shaders for non-photorealistic and motion graphics-style effects.

Check out the latest features in the GPU production renderer, including support for meshlet streaming in network renders.

Intuitive free tool also lets you scatter objects on curves, surfaces or volumes, or place them by clicking in the viewport.

Vampawn Entertainment's Medieval Modular Wall Pack is normally sold for $49.99. Blender, UE5, FBX, GLB and OBJ formats. Commercial use.

Read our FAQs on the free online stock asset markeplace from the creator of D5 Render, including its license conditions and stance on AI.

Check out the new features in the open-source release of the production renderer used on movies like The Bad Guys 2.

Sizeable update to the popular reference image organization tool adds grid snapping, batch image processing and more drawing tools.

Master Houdini's powerful fluid simulation toolset with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed beginners' guide for VFX and games artists.

UE5-based renderer shipped with the Silo modeling software now supports real-time ray tracing on Mac and path tracing on Windows.

Handy rig-building toolset can now warp all the blendshapes for one character to another with different topology. Free for personal use.

Updated: new release candidate for the core glTF Gaussian Splatting Extension paves the way towards support for 3DGS data in glTF files.

Helldivers 2 dev becomes Blender's third new corporate sponsor in two weeks, donating €30,000/year towards the open-source 3D app.