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Promising lightweight add-on for creating 3D crowds for animation or visualization now lets you paint crowd characters into the scene.

Free tools help artists and studios set up collaborative USD-based workflows without the need for a custom production pipeline.

Update to the image editing and digital painting app makes it possible to edit color gradients from the contextual task bar.

Architectural renderer gets new live link to Chaos Vantage, better volumetric caustics, and new AI-based render upscaling system.

Now available: read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software, from Grease Pencil 3 to updates to Eevee and Cycles.

Big update to the real-time terrain generator adds new snow and debris simulation tools, and changes pricing and licensing.

Newly rebranded plugin transfers 3D characters, shaders, rigs and animation from Character Creator and iClone to Blender.

Get 125 free cloud textures on black backgrounds for background compositing in VFX or motion graphics projects. Commercial use.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create 3D characters with animation-friendly, production-ready topology in Maya and ZBrush.

Hair and fur plugin gets new tools for 'grafting' procedural hair grooms onto a character, and 'boxing' operators into single modifiers.

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

Read our pick of the features in this huge update to the game engine, from MegaLights to character rigging, animation and rendering.

Update to the 3D compositing app extends USD and OCIO workflow, and adds new options for toggling between inputs in compositions.

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.

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.

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