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Check out the eye-catching cloth brush and wrinkle deformer due in the GPU-based sculpting app.

Read a detailed run-down of new features in the procedural 3D app, including updates to simulation, creature effects, Solaris and Karma.

Cool free tool also integrates with the Blender OpenStreetMap plugin to recreate entire real cities in 3D.

Material authoring app gets native M1 support. See what else is new, and what has been deprecated.

But KeyShot for ZBrush has been scrapped, raising the overall cost of using the renderer with the sculpting app.

Interesting alternative to roto for VFX work exports matte frames to compositing apps like After Effects

Check out the new features in the real-time tool for exploring V-Ray scenes, like the new cloud system.

See a full list of new features in the next version of Houdini, including updates to creature effects, fluid simulation, Solaris and Karma.

NMKD Software's neat tool retimes video - but you can also use it speed up 3D animation workflow.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to sculpt a production-ready creature in ZBrush and Maya.

Community-made plugin lets you render Blender animations, VFX and visualisations in Autodesk's Arnold renderer.

Scattering plugin gets support for V-Ray 6, plus new options for replacing scene objects by name.

Eidos-Montréal's UnrealVDB lets users view VDB files inside Unreal Engine and render them with its path tracer.

Real-time visualisation software gets new HDRI backdrop system, and physics-based layout tools.

Check out the new features coming to the real-time fluid simulator's GPU particle system, including motion trails and 'force masking'.

See the games Houdini was used on this year alongside clips of the custom tools used to create them.

Check out the curve-based hair system due in Blender 3.3, and the upcoming real-time compositor.

Neat add-ons generate textures for use inside game engines like UE5, complete with flow and ID maps.

Master 2D concept design with Transformers: Cyberverse artist Léo Chiola's Gnomon Workshop tutorial.

OpenVDB-based meshing plugin gets new GPU-accelerated, network-capable FLIP/PIC solver.