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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.

Master professional concept design techniques in ZBrush, Blender and Photoshop with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Real-time ray tracing renderer for large V-Ray scenes gets support for the V-Ray Clipper and a new Water Surface object.

Check out the new features in the compositing and effects software, including a new machine-learning-assisted Morph tool.

Updated: Pro edition of the AI color grading software includes ACES support and a new OFX plugin for integration with Nuke.

Promising add-on creates surface water complete with ripples, foam, rain splashes and floating debris. Works with Cycles and Eevee.

Check out the new features in the 3D clothing design software, including improvements to its real-time simulation toolset.

Read our FAQs on the pricing and licensing changes to the popular online library of 3D scans for games, VFX and visualization work.

New 'open marketplace' replaces the Unreal Engine Marketplace and will replace the ArtStation and Sketchfab stores. Read our FAQs.

Currently free in beta: new web-based platform is geared towards VFX and post-production artists looking to upscale shots to 4K or 8K.

Compositing Academy's neat free VFX tool offers a simple way to create flows of energy and light, or art direct stock FX elements.

Create a portfolio-worthy 3D character with Naughty Dog Senior Character Artist Colleen Larson's tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.

Jesse Miettinen's versatile Geometry Nodes set-ups generate procedural 3D buildings, trees, ivy - and even car animation rigs - inside Blender.

Long-awaited major release of the game engine ships. Check out its new features, new release schedule, and new pricing and licensing.

Grab the files for the lead character and environment from the beautiful real-time demo for the new graphics and simulation features in Unity 6.

Interesting experimental AI technologies relight images during compositing, and use 3D to guide the layout of 2D images.

3D modeling and animation app gets support for the OpenPBR material standard, and performance updates to key modifiers.

Update to the 3D animation tool reworks Boolean modeling, and introduces OpenPBR support and interesting new simulation features.