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Check out the new features in the architectural modeling app, also used in concept art, including HDRI lighting and PBR materials.

Master character effects workflows for animation, cinematics and VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Houdini tutorial.

Promising open-source add-on lets you scatter plants and rocks in your scenes according to elevation, texture masks or guide curves.

Check out the new time-tracking tools in the cloud-based production management platform for VFX. Free for six months to startup studios.

Next major update to Nuke introduces native multishot compositing, and improves roto performance and BlinkScript editing.

3D tracking and match-moving software gets new multi-export system, AI-based roto masking, and 3D head mesh for head tracking.

Check out the changes to the intuitive NURBS modeler, including a revamped interface, and a new Section Analysis command.

Financial problems of the owner of Mikros Animation and VFX Oscar-winners MPC and The Mill threaten thousands of artists' jobs worldwide.

Get free volumetric 3D clouds for previs, motion graphics and VFX in CG apps and game engines like Blender, Maya and Unreal Engine.

Video editing, compositing and VFX app and still image editor had over 6 million users prior to buyout and switch to subscription pricing.

Master workflows used in cinematics and animation production with The Gnomon Workshop's improvers' guide.

Cost of Substance 3D Texturing, Collection and Teams subscriptions to rise from 9-25% in March 2025. Read our FAQs about the changes.

Check out the new features in the 3D capture software, including path tracing in the 3D View and support for HP's Z Captis scanner.

Chaos adds AI visualization and ideation app Veras to its product line. See what the buyout means for users of both firms' tools.

Sizeable update to the real-time visualization app adds volumetric clouds, Virtual Shadow Maps and automatic LOD generation.

[Sponsored] Online render farm Forrender argues that traditional workflows provide control and scalability that new AI tools cannot.

Free, open-source online tool for viewing and editing 3DGS data can now add camera animations to existing scans.

Check out the changes to tracking plugins FaceTracker and GeoTracker, including new wireframe rendering and start frame selection options.

Check out the new features in the suite of motion graphics and VFX plugins and the online library of effects and transitions.

Renderer gets better multiscattering in volumes, USD procedural support in Maya, and initial support for GeForce 50 Series GPUs.