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[Sponsored] Discover how Chaos is porting the GPU functionality of its industry-leading V-Ray renderer to run on AMD Radeon PRO GPUs.

Open-source alternative to tools like Substance 3D Designer and Painter gets a long-awaited update. Check out the new features.

Community-created patch for CryEngine 5.7 adds the first publicly available new features to Crytek's AAA game engine for three years.

Update to the popular effects plugin makes it easier to exchange simulation caches with Houdini, Bifrost, EmberGen and LiquiGen.

Neat browser-based stylization, retouching and roto tool uses texture synthesis to transfer the look of a still image to an entire video.

New $900 14-inch Android tablet works as both a standalone drawing tablet - and potentially, as a wireless pen display, for both 2D and 3D art.

Master digital drawing skills with The Gnomon Workshop's new series of introductory tutorials recorded by top Concept Designer Neville Page.

Big update to the natural media painting software adds new Bristle Brushes, environment lighting for thick paint, and better PSD support.

Check out the new features in the topology transfer tools for creating digital doubles and blendshapes from 3D scans of actors.

Promising new tech compresses complex destruction, cloth and liquid simulation caches for real-time rendering inside Unreal Engine.

Mobile edition of Nekki's AI-assisted animation software now works on Android tablets, See the other new features in Cascadeur Mobile 1.5.

New Linux version of the 3D clothing design software for VFX and game development adds a Python API for studios to automate repetitive tasks.

Major update to the real-time visualization app adds support for Nanite and the Unreal VCam virtual camera app. Free to indie artists.

Popular AI-based image upscaling and processing tools Gigapixel, Photo AI and Video AI go subscription-only on Friday.

Native support due in Spring 2026. See a sneak peek of a 310-million-poly ZBrush character running on a Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop.

Popular hair plugin for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and Unreal Engine is now available free to educational institutions and students worldwide.

See the neat new AI-based masking workflows in the roto and paint app, including a new Face ML node for automatic facial segmentation.

Check out the changes coming in the 'most significant release in a decade' for the heavyweight renderer for animation and VFX.

Latest update to the GPU-accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver improves collisions between smoke and surrounding objects.

Environment artist Maarten Hof's Modular Rural Cabin pack of AAA-style game assets is free to download for the next two weeks.