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Perpetual anima Pro licenses and sales of individual metropoly 3D stock characters discontinued in favor of anima All subscriptions.

Check out the new features in the real-time visualization software, including the Chaos AI Enhancer for adding detail to images.

Material authoring software gets new color-manipulation nodes for stylizing images and generating color palettes and ID maps.

3D modeling and animation software gets support for SVG files and a new Flow Retopology plugin for cloud-based workflow.

Latest update to the 3D software adds machine-learning-based tool to create fast approximations of complex character rigs.

Studying at a school or college? Grab a free perpetual license of the desktop and VR sculpting software, normally priced at $69.99.

Now free in alpha: new AI tech compresses offline smoke and fire sims "up to 100x" for rendering in real time in Unreal Engine 5.

AI tech helps VFX and animation studios generate variant schedules for projects to assess the impact of deadline and staffing changes.

New deep learning framework built on OpenVDB is intended to enable developers and researchers to build city-scale generative AI models.

Sizeable update to the tracking app extends the new 3D tracking toolset, and adds Alembic export and direct export to After Effects.

iOS and Android scanning app now generates character rigs for the 3D models it generates. There are updates to the free edition, too.

[Sponsored] With its smart design and advanced hardware, XPPen's affordable drawing tablet is ideal for both CG artists and gamers.

Discover how to design plausible near-future vehicles in Blender with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly new tutorial.

Unusual GPU-accelerated node-based digital painting app gets new radial symmetry system for creating complex mandala-like patterns.

Discover how Ingenuity Studios created a six-mile CG river and complex smoke and fire simulations for Kevin Costner's epic Western.

Discover which of AMD's professional GPUs is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests.

Now available free, technical artist Paul Ambrosiussen's P4Houdini plugin integrates Houdini with Perforce's version control tech.

Reallusion's free add-on readies characters exported from Character Creator and iClone for rendering in 3ds Max with Arnold or V-Ray.

New text-to-image generative AI feature reaches the stable release of Photoshop. Check out the other new features in Photoshop 25.11 here.

Unusual tool for creating software-agnostic animation libraries gets new AI-based markerless full-body motion-capture system