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New free web-based production tracking tool provides a visual overview of a movie or animation.

See news of Autodesk's latest acquisition, Blender's latest backer, and a free glossary of virtual production terms.

Plugin for importing V-Ray scenes into Unreal Engine gets support for render relighting, skeletal meshes.

Neat add-on generates attractively stylised trees that can be exported to DCC apps or game engines.

Unreal Engine plugin for the Atoms Crowd simulation system gets support for runtime variation and 'XPU animation'.

Quinton Qu's incredible feat of visual programming wins Adobe's 2021 Substance 3D Designer Insanity Award.

Material authoring tool gets new Physical Size system for scanned materials, new Cloth Weave filter.

Updated: New visual programming system for Maya and Unreal Engine now free for non-commercial use.

Architectural modelling app gets improved curve drawing, new search and tagging features, native support for Apple's M1 processors.

Buyout of leading character rigging and simulation tools developer strengthens Unity's portfolio of digital human and creature tech.

See how the $229 hardware-accelerated ray tracing-capable GPU performs with CG apps like Photoshop and Rhino.

Get free rigged 3D characters and mocap moves from Reallusion's ActorCore library. FBX format, for commercial use.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create a horror movie effect from start to finish.

Sales of the Modo and Katana editions of the renderer have ended, but support continues until December 2022.

Games artist Nathaniel Albright's neat free tool combines multiple materials into a single texture map.

Discover how to model, texture and light ultra-realistic 3D characters with tips from leading CG artists.

Long-awaited update to the pioneering standalone retopology tool inches closer to a final release.

Blender Institute names its four main development targets for the open-source 3D software in 2022.

Tree-generation software for VFX and games gets freehand editing mode, new tools for integrating 3D scans, and new pricing model.

Unusual app for building reusable animation libraries gets nonlinear motion editing and new facial rigging and animation toolsets.