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Unity ends sales of Maya tissue simulation plugin Ziva VFX, real-time toolset Ziva RT, and facial-rigging service Ziva Face Trainer.

Promising lightweight Blender fluids add-on can now bake simulations for export to game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine.

Get over 100 species of grasses and flowers in FBX or Alembic format, or for use with the Gscatter Blender plugin. For commercial use.

Check out the new AI features in the virtual reality modeling software, including a handy-looking Search by Shape system.

Discover how to recreate real-world environments for VFX and game cinematics with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.

Real-time ray tracing renderer for exploring large V-Ray scenes gets support for the V-Ray Blend Material and Multi Matte render element.

Digital sculpting software gets fourth consecutive 'minor update' in four years. See the complete changelog for the release here.

Check out the changes in the compatibility-breaking update to the renderer, including better denoising and progressive rendering.

Check out the changes ijn the 3D modeling and rendering software, including updates to retopology, OCIO color management and USD.

Check out the latest features in the 3D modeling and animation app, from the new Smart Extrude system to LookdevX, Arnold and Bifrost.

Check out the new features in the compositing software for motion graphics and VFX, like support for per-character text styling.

Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D app, from better baking to improvements to Cycles and the Sequencer.

Discover the fundamental principles of character design with The Gnomon Workshop's new introductory tutorial.

Current state-of-the-art AI model generates 3D assets from text prompts 'near instantly', even on a single previous-gen GPU.

Popular plugin for creating 3D head models from source photos of an actor gets streamlined new one-click texturing workflow.

New open-source generative AI model can create a textured 3D mesh from a single source image in under a second.

High-performance video retiming tool's new AI-trained algorithm reduces 'wobbles, gloopiness and ghosting' on tricky shots.

Open-source tech converts 3D models, materials and animation data between USD and FBX, glTF, OBJ, PLY and STL formats.

Set of AI tools for games artists and developers gets new generative AI model for its text-to-PBR-material system. Find more details here.

Paid standalone edition of the 3D particle generator supersedes the old free edition, but can be run indefinitely in trial mode.