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Create a FACS-based facial rig suitable for VFX or animation work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Maya tutorial.

See the key features in the game engine and real-time renderer, from better 3D water to Variable Rate Shading and Deferred+ rendering.

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including nifty new Select Details options in the AI-based Object Selection tool.

Update to the renderer adds over 3,100 Chaos Scans materials to the Cosmos library, and improves DoF and volumetric effects.

Get JustB Studios' 1850s Post Office Environment pack of 3D assets for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace. For commercial use.

Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.

Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.

Argentum Studio's in-house tool simplifies the process of lighting and rendering hair and fur in Unreal Engine 5.5. Free for a month.

Discover how to animate run cycles, combat and death moves in Maya with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly tutorial.

Check out the new features in the 3D software, including viewport path tracing, a new Toon Filter, and new rigging and animation tools.

Updated: free version of the real-time volumetric effects tool for games and virtual production is now available for Houdini as well as Unreal Engine.

Check out the feature set of the much-anticipated tool for creating VFX assets for games, its workflow, its release date, and its likely price.

Check out the new features in the compositing and effects software, including OCIO support, a new Type tool and AI clip upscaling.

Add-on lets you send characters from Character Creator to MetaTailor with one-click, fit 3D clothing to them, then send them back to CC4.

Check out the latest features in the real-time visualization software, including support for DLSS 4 and a new procedural 3D grass material.

Version 2025 v2.0 of the VR modeling app adds a new voxel engine for blocking out 3D forms. Check out the other new features.

Updated: Features added in the 1.1 and 1.2 releases include Multi Object Mode, UDIM packing, and the new UVReactor modifier.

Check out the new motion-capture workflows enabled by the free update to the real-time animation tool and its paid Timecode plugin.

Crowd animation tool for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine gets a complete traffic simulation system, and a new viewport renderer.

[Sponsored] With its new Houdini plugin and free edition, Zibra AI's volumetric compression technology is shaking up real-time VFX.