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Sparseal's promising new tool for non-photorealistic texturing is now available for Windows desktop and mobile systems, as well as iPads.

Check out the new features in the image-editing app, including tighter integration with online mood boarding platform Firefly Boards.

VFX and motion graphics tools firm buys Magix's pro video and audio editing software. New version of Vegas Pro already available.

Poly Hammer's Character DNA add-on lets you edit MetaHuman facial and body rigs inside Blender, including their RBF corrective poses.

VFX artist Marty Blumen's neat free add-on renders volumes like clouds and fire in Nuke without round-tripping to an external renderer.

Promising 'minimalist 3D sculpting' tool runs in a browser, on Windows, Mac and Linux, and as an iPad app. Free for personal use.

Digital painting and animation tool gets new accompanying web-based apps, including a complete low-poly 3D landscape generator.

SDK for games and CG software developers now includes AMD's Redstone AI rendering technologies, including the new AI denoiser.

Digital sculpting software gets its sixth consecutive annual update with no new features listed, but the price of annual subscriptions is up.

Rendering and visualization software gets support for OpenPBR materials in USD files, and updates to the rendering and animation toolsets.

New CUDA-based GPU solver makes smoke and fire simulation in the Maya fluid dynamics plugin '2-5x' faster than on the CPU.

New features in the character animation and mocap-editing software include new quaternion math tools for complex rigs.

New version of the production renderer includes 40 free hours per month on the tech preview of cloud rendering service Flow Render.

Check out the new features in the 3D modeling and animation tool, including Smart Bevel, the Noise Plus modifier and the Field Helper.

Read our rundown of the changes to the 3D modeling and animation app, from new AI features to Skin Tools and surface tension in Bifrost.

3DGS data can now be converted from PLY format, stored natively in USD files, and rendered using the new hdParticleField renderer.

Second round of job cuts in three years attributed to 'downturn in Fortnite engagement'. We assess what it means for Epic's CG tools.

Promising GPU-accelerated add-on for DaVinci Resolve and Nuke generates 'production-quality mattes without manual roto'.

Neat script collects the key controls for modeling to reference images into an intuitive UI, preserving your creative flow. Version 2.1 is free.

Discover how to create an action sequence in UE5 with DNEG artist Kosuke Iwasaki's free intermediate tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.