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AI firm's controversial contribution to the Blender Development Fund becomes a single donation; funding process to be 'strengthened'.

Popular alternative to ProBuilder for modeling, texturing and rigging 3D assets directly inside the Unity Editor is now available free.

Check out designer Albert Omoss's intriguing node-based image editor, pitched as a Photoshop alternative for game art and texture processing.

Intuitive object and camera tracking tool for VFX and motion graphics is now available as a Houdini SOP, as well as a Blender and Nuke add-on.

New Blender Lab-developed add-on also now connects Anthropic's Claude AI models to the open-source 3D software. Read our FAQs.

Update to the image-editing app adds the much-anticipated AI-based Rotate Tool, and a neat new reflection removal feature.

Check out the new features in the terrain-generation software for games and VFX, and its new free introductory edition.

Check out the new features in the AI-powered Character Creator plugin for generating 3D digital doubles from reference photos.

[Sponsored] Discover volumetric infrastructure firm Gracia's pipeline for streaming 4D Gaussian Splatting content directly in a web browser.

Check out the latest features in the free image editing and vector design software, including a new integration with DaVinci Resolve.

Latest update to the veteran digital sketching and concept art software adds new Lasso Select and Draw Outline tools.

Discover how to animate and render a demo sequence in Blender with The Gnomon Workshop's free intermediate-level video training.

Check out the new features in the GPU renderer, including updates to virtual textures, trace sets, and the Neural Radiance Cache.

Check out the promising new GPU-accelerated sparse liquid solver from Theory Accelerated, creator of the popular Axiom fluid solver.

The V-Ray GPU render engine now supports AMD cards again via AMD's HIP framework - and they're actually faster than NVIDIA in some scenes.

Check out the new features in the 3ds Max renderer, including native parallax interiors, quick caustics, and relighting 3D Gaussian Splats.

See the new features in the free alternative to Substance 3D Designer, including a Controlled Variations system for material variants.

Compositing, finishing and effects software gets a new Annotations system and two new AI models for generating depth maps from clips.

Check out the latest features in the production renderer, including support for Windows on ARM and hardware ray tracing on AMD GPUs.

Check out the new features in the plugins for motion design and VFX, including support for free motion graphics software Autograph.