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New features in the compositing app include a live link to Unreal Engine and new machine learning options in NukeX.

3D texture painting app to get OpenColorIO 2 colour management for VFX pipelines.

Material authoring app's neat new particle nodes open up workflows from scattering to 3D plant design.

Sign up now to test this promising next-gen AI-trained automated facial rigging system for games.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial provides an essential guide to 3D scanning workflow for production.

Free GPU renderer gets better support for fog, smoke and clouds, plus Deep EXR export from Maya.

Popular Photoshop colour wheel and colour picker plugin gets HUD opacity settings; control sliders for more colour spaces, including Lab.

Update to Maxon's colour correction plugins lets users apply looks inside Unreal Engine as well as compositing and editing apps.

Check out the new tools in the digital sculpting software - from major features like Bas Relief and BevelPro to five hidden gems.

Popular ZBrush brush manager goes back to being a free plugin. Now integrates directly into ZBrush.

Users will be able to launch jobs on the blockchain-based GPU render network directly inside Cinema 4D.

Autodesk buys the Blender-friendly cloud-based production pipeline system, and hires the developers that created it at Tangent Labs.

Get tree, plant and grass models in FBX, 3ds Max, Blender and Cinema 4D formats. For commercial use.

Changes cut cost of the facial mocap system for indie artists streaming to Unreal Engine by over $3,000/year.

Latest beta of Blender 3.0 supports GPU rendering on AMD cards via the open source HIP framework.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial from Riot Games' Rembert Montald sets out pro storyboard workflows.

Download custom ZBrush IMM brushes for sculpting hair, clothing and machinery. Commercial use.

Renderer gets new decal system, support for USD lights, access to the Chaos Cosmos asset library.

Open-source game engine gets better tonemapping, new UI theme editor, glTF export for editing scenes in DCC apps like Blender.

3D city generation software gets new terrain sculpting tools, IFC import and export, and better import of OpenStreetMap data.