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Games artist Nathaniel Albright's neat free tool combines multiple materials into a single texture map.

Discover how to model, texture and light ultra-realistic 3D characters with tips from leading CG artists.

Long-awaited update to the pioneering standalone retopology tool inches closer to a final release.

Blender Institute names its four main development targets for the open-source 3D software in 2022.

Tree-generation software for VFX and games gets freehand editing mode, new tools for integrating 3D scans, and new pricing model.

Unusual app for building reusable animation libraries gets nonlinear motion editing and new facial rigging and animation toolsets.

Create a movie-quality 3D superhero with Eternals concept artist Luca Nemolato's Gnomon Workshop tutorial.

Real-time visualisation tool gets new GPU path tracer, HDRI skydomes, support for point clouds.

Private equity-led deal to unite developers of three of arch viz's most popular renderers. All of both firms' products remain available.

Pixologic founder Ofer Alon and entire ZBrush team have joined Maxon. See what the deal means for ZBrush and its sibling products.

See the month's best real-time 3D models, from free downloadable cars to entire animated scenes.

Change follows the completion of Maxon's acquisition of Pixologic's assets on 29 December 2021.

Get free rendered explosions for use in VFX compositing. 2K EXR image sequences; commercial use.

New tools to improve workflow between Blender and iClone and Character Creator due this year.

Current RTX gaming cards now run from the $249 GeForce RTX 3050 to the new 'monster' RTX 3090 Ti.

Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio can now create sets of facial shapes for export in USD format.

Real-time collaboration platform for 3D design and content creation now out of beta. Check out all of its latest features here.

Open-source renderer and its Blender plugin get support for OpenColorIO 2. Parsing of mesh lights '3x faster'.

[Sponsored] New online platform makes animation easy for game developers and AR/VR creators.

Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.