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Tutorial: Introduction to Marvelous Designer
Get started with the industry-standard tool for creating clothing for 3D characters with The Gnomon Workshop's beginners' guide.
Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday 2024 deals for CG artists
Updated 24 December: Find discounts on CG hardware and software available until New Year, including 3DCoat, FumeFX and Yeti.
RandomControl releases Maverick Indie and Maverick Studio 2024
Check out the new features in the GPU renderers, including initial USD support and a complete new animation system.
Pilgway releases 3DCoat 2024.30
Check out the new features in the sculpting and retopology app, including integration with RealityCapture for photogrammetry.
Terragen Sky now lets you paint clouds into the sky directly
Check out the neat new Sky Paint tools in the December 2024 update to the sky-creation tool for VFX, visualization and games work.
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.8
Environment generation software gets highly multithreaded rendering, plus heightfield export to 16-bit TIFFs for Unity and Unreal Engine.
Photoshop users can now create filters in Substance 3D Designer
Current beta build of the image-editing app lets users create and import custom image-stylization filters as Substance 3D .sbsar files.
Pixar releases RenderMan 26.3
Check out the new features in the production renderer, including tiled denoising, and support for the new versions of Maya and Houdini.
Create game characters with CC Auto Setup for 3ds Max and V-Ray
[Sponsored] Discover how Reallusion's free plugin streamlines the transfer of characters from Character Creator 4 to 3ds Max.
Leopoly releases Shapelab 2025 and Shapelab Lite
Check out the new features in the sculpting tool for VR and desktop systems, and its new lower-cost edition for Meta Quest 3 headsets.
Adobe releases Photoshop 26.2
Check out the changes to font browsing in the latest workflow update to the image editing and digital painting software.
Check out Blender’s experimental anime rendering builds
New non-photorealistic rendering branch of the open-source 3D app is being developed with input from anime firm DillonGoo Studios.
Cell Fluids 2.0 for Blender is out
Popular lightweight Blender fluid simulation add-on now lets you art direct simulations with guide curves. Check out the other new features.
Unigine 2.19.1 can now import and export USD files
Game engine now imports meshes, materials, lights and animation in USD format, including in the free Community edition.
Boris FX releases Mocha Pro 2025
Tracking app's new AI-powered roto workflow lets users isolate objects with a single click, then propagate the matte through an entire shot.
Master Designing Sci-Fi Props for Film
Discover how to create 3D designs that can be turned into physical movie props with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Stager 3.1 in beta
Scene layout and rendering app gets new generative AI features, including a new text-to-3D system for creating background models.
Nekki releases Cascadeur Mobile 1.2
New iPad and iPhone edition of Nekki's AI-assisted character animation software can now import and export data in FBX format.
Łukasz Czyż releases UVPackmaster 3 for Maya
Check out the popular GPU-accelerated UV packing and UV stacking tool, now available for Maya as well as Blender.
Blender add-on ClayPencil turns 2D animation into 3D ‘claymation’
Neat free Geometry Nodes setup lets you create 3D animation using 2D workflows in Blender's Grease Pencil toolset.
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