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Neat procedural plant generator for Cinema 4D generates animatable 3D trees, grasses and flowers for VFX and motion graphics work.

Turn storyboards into animated videos with Riot Games artist Rembert Montald's new Gnomon Workshop tutorial.

Check out the new GPU-based real-time fire and smoke simulator, now available in free public beta.

See the month's best real-time models, from 3D characters to a free scan of UK's 'Rick Roll' bridge.

Control your favourite 3D plumber inside the Blender viewport with the neat libsm64-blender plugin.

Terrain generator for games and real-time work gets new system for creating roads, deforming the land surface automatically to match.

Watch a seven-minute compilation of new art and animation from students at the leading CG school.

New Lenovo ThinkStation P620 will be the first place you can try the latest AMD Threadripper Pro CPUs.

Photogrammetry app gets integration with Unity's ArtEngine texture-processing tool, new Orthophoto Editor, USD export.

Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D software, from faster renders in Cycles to new procedural modelling nodes.

New preview build of the VFX-industry-standard app adds native support for Apple's M1 processors.

'Most powerful chip ever built for a personal computer' has a higher GPU compute performance than some Nvidia Ampere RTX cards.

Hard-to-classify Unreal Engine-based 'cinematography simulator' for previs work now uses MetaHumans as stock characters.

Pro edition of the real-time visualisation tool gets new volumetric omni light effect and the option to import custom decals.

Free Photoshop plugin for editing multi-layer EXR files gets support for Smart Objects and file linking.

Get the base edition of Maxon's iPad sculpting app for free. Update: now available in 10 languages.

Check out the new features in ftrack's cloud-based production tracking and shot review system for visual effects and animation work.

Create virtual claymation with this neat new plugin from the devs of Blender's Grease Pencil toolset.

See what's new in this handy add-on for streamlining common 3D modelling and scene layout tasks.

Pixar animator Eddy Okba reveals the subtle errors that even experienced artists often miss.