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See breakdowns of five key movies, TV series, cinematics and animated shorts created in V-Ray from Chaos's latest showreel.

Discover how the VFX studio used procedural growth simulation to create the environment for Amazon Prime Video's supernatural thriller.

Photoshop plugin and standalone app for applying cinematic looks to still images gets AI mask generation, Looks and new Particle Brushes.

Destruction plugin for games and VFX gets a new Edge Fracture Tool, and improvements to clustering and simulation performance.

Substance 3D Texturing and Substance 3D Collection plans now include unlimited access to 19,000+ materials, 3D models and HDRIs.

Check out the new features in the image-editing app, with the Frame Tool getting new shape options and generative AI integration.

Update to Epic Games' free app provides more control over scans, with the option to create 1-million-poly models with 8K textures.

Handy free Blender add-on displays an estimated time and progress bar for entire animations being rendered, not just individual frames.

Check out the new features in the renderer, including a new Houdini-specific volume shader and better integration with Solaris.

Check out the new features in the VFX renderer, including OpenPBR support and changes to USD support specific to the Maya edition.

Maya animation toolkit for VFX and games gets new tools developed for Red9's character rigging work on the latest Sonic movie.

The EmberGen dev's new app will be a 'better way to create the majority of assets' for VFX in games. Here's what we know about it so far.

Next major update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator to feature sparse sims, simulation retiming, USD support and a macOS edition.

Master key workflows for integrating character animation into interactive gameplay in UE5 with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Check out the new features in the sub-$100 image editing app, including support for Cryptomatte data when retouching 3D renders.

Check out the latest beta features in the compositing and motion graphics app, including the option to preview HLG and PQ video.

Kiri Engine 3.13 improves the quality of 3D Gaussian Splatting in the app, sharpening scans and reducing 3DGS file sizes 'approximately 50%'.

GPU-accelerated, AI-powered video retiming tool can now be used without a host app, for under half the price of a regular plugin license.

Check out upcoming features in the game engine, from rendering and simulation to Megaworlds biomes, next-gen terrain and Anim Next.

Big update to the compositing and motion design app adds a DaVinci Resolve Live Link, an After Effects converter - and a new free edition.