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New features in the VR sculpting app include this (literally) eye-popping Boolean Split operation.

Houdini edition of the renderer gets improved support for rendering clouds, oceans and hair.

AI-aided physics-based animation software ships after years in beta. Check out its key features here.

3D texture painting software gets new USD Look export system, plus neat Roller Brush for repeating details like scales and stitches.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals VFX industry workflows for creating characters in ZBrush, Maya and Mari.

GPU-based Cinema 4D particle, liquid and granular fluid simulation tool due in new host apps in 2023.

New cloud-based media archiving system helps VFX and CG firms build online libraries of key assets.

Toolset for authoring USD scenes with the graph editor from Maya's Bifrost plugin now free under an Apache 2.0 licence.

Sizeable update to the renderer adds support for Intel's OIDN for render denoising, plus multi-scattering in volumes like clouds.

Roto and paint tool gets support for industry-standard ID matte generation system Cryptomatte.

Compositing and effects software gets support for AWS CDI in the cloud. Old Sparks plugins to be deprecated in the next update.

Updated: See what's new in Maxon's suites of effects plugins, now including Magic Bullet 2023.1.

See the key changes to the game engine, like the new water system and dynamic volumetric clouds.

Free tool automatically generates body and finger rigs for humanoid 3D characters. Check out its new time-saving symmetry options.

3D modelling and rendering app gets new OSL maps to create organic noise and randomise UVs.

EmberGen developer's upcoming real-time terrain generator is pitched as the Substance 3D Designer of planetary creation.

Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software: from path guiding in Cycles to a hidden bonus for motion designers.

3D animation tool to get workflow improvements to Proximity Wrap, the Graph Editor and Time Editor.

Major update to the compositing software adds complete new USD-based 3D system, plus free library of Nuke machine learning models.

Turn 2D concepts into printable 3D sculpts with The Gnomon Workshop's essential new tutorial.