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Discover the key features for VFX artists and colorists in the free grading and editing software and its $295 Studio edition.

Neat free extension lets you apply painterly brushstrokes to the surface of 3D models while texturing them, and control the strokes procedurally.

Next-gen motion design software gets support for OpenType fonts, plus the option to create color gradients along strokes.

Veteran 3D modeling and rendering software retired after 20 years, with no further updates expected after Modo 17.1, due later this year.

New batches of commercial tools and assets will be made available free on the online marketplace for two weeks, every two weeks.

Freshcan 3D's Military Airport pack is a set of 3D buildings, roads and props, licensed for commercial use in any game engine or CG software.

AI-based system lets you find online stock assets matching reference images or plain-text descriptions, directly inside the apps.

New tool promises to let you create or edit Unreal Engine MetaHuman characters directly in Blender. Currently free in early access.

Royalty-free open-source codec for professional video production is the VFX industry standards body's latest hosted project.

Rigging artist Walter Delgado's intuitive add-on retargets animation between 3D characters, regardless of rig structure.

First paid version of the nifty 3D sketching app for iPad is a major update, adding new 3D liquify, lighting and post effects toolsets.

Discover an efficient professional concept art workflow in Blender and Photoshop with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Crate's Unmult, Crate's Chromatic Aberration and Crate's Long Shadow streamline common tasks in VFX, motion graphics and CG work.

Get the DNEG Lead Animator's neat free creature rig, licensed for use in portfolio work, and supplied as a Maya MB scene file.

Check out the new features in the real-time visualization software, including improvements to software ray tracing and Artistic Visual Modes.

Set of effects plugins for video editing and compositing apps gets new AI-based motion blur filter and updates to Particle Illusion.

Latest major update to the renderer adds support for 3D Gaussian Splatting and luminaires, and updates V-Ray GPU and the VFB.

New video-to-3D-scene system 'brings artists closer to producing animated films' as well as VFX with the AI online film-making platform.

GPU renderer and real-time visualization tool gets new terrain sculpting and phasing animation systems, plus 3D Gaussian Splatting.

Discover 10 things you can do today to improve your character animation work with DreamWorks animator Adrien Liv's expert tips.