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Open-source vector design tool gets improvements to workflow with filters, fonts and color palettes, and support for Affinity Designer files.

Now available in the Firefly web app: new Firefly Video Model will let users create video from text, images or existing video clips.

Adobe's new standalone app lets users drag and drop 3D models into Photoshop and have them appear as editable Smart Objects.

Compositing software gets 'more modern', legible interface design, and 'decluttered' 3D model import. See all of the changes here.

Image-editing software gets new AI object removal and generative AI features, plus native support for OpenColorIO and ACES.

Major update to the real-time lighting and look dev tool adds support for UDIM workflows, interactive baking, hybrid rendering.

Get over 30 free 3D scans of desert plants, rocks and ground materials in Blender, FBX and USD format, and 10 16K HDRIs. CC0 license.

Master professional hair and fur grooming techniques for visual effects with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.

Maya's multiphysics plugin gets experimental new modular rigging toolset, plus the option to generate variant simulations in the cloud.

Browser-based text-to-animation generative AI tool can now be used to create seamless animation cycles, and to retarget animation.

Sizeable update to the open-source game engine adds a new mobile render pipeline, and lets you create games without a C++ compiler.

Free web app will let artists tell generative AI firms not to train AI models on their images and videos. So will it work? Read our FAQs.

Check out the new features in Grease Pencil 3, the long-awaited overhaul of Blender's 2D animation toolset, now available in beta builds.

Master professional CG lighting workflows in Maya, Arnold, Katana and Nuke with The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.

Scans Factory's Temples of Cambodia asset pack comprises 120+ 3D scans of ruined temples for use in virtual production and VFX.

Check out the new features in the digital painting and image-editing app, including this fluid simulation-based watercolor painting toolset.

Check out the new features in the promising tool for fitting 3D clothing to humanoid avatars, including a new real-time cloth physics system.

Updated: the new desktop mode in Leopoly's promising digital sculpting app now supports stylus as well as mouse and keyboard.

Read our FAQs on the new Unreal Engine pricing for games launched under the upcoming 'Launch Everywhere with Epic' program.

Real-time visualization software gets new wind animation controls for plants and fabric. Check out the other new features here.