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Big update to the Omniverse scene layout app adds soft-body physics, new character animation toolset.

Option to use renderers like Cycles, OctaneRender and V-Ray inside Omniverse apps due soon.

Neat Photoshop-style feature automatically removes unwanted details from all channels of a material at once.

Cost of renting Adobe software rises by up to 6.3% in April, but only some countries and plans affected.

New cards flesh out Nvidia's line-up of Ampere GPUs for pro desktop workstations - and now for laptops.

Updated: Canvas 1.2 update adds new style variations system to fine tune the look of generated images.

Photorealistic two-minute real-time Unity short showcases new skin and hair simulation technologies.

Check out the new procedural modelling and scattering tools in the popular 'all-in-one' add-on.

Update to the real-time gaseous fluid simulator adds support for Wacom tablets, EXR backplates.

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.