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Free grading and editing software is now 'up to 3x' faster on Macs with Apple's new M1 processors.

Boris FX's roto and paint software gets new color correction and grading features. Now available as a plugin for Nuke and After Effects.

Still available in current builds for a 'short time', but users are advised to switch to the Substance apps.

Image editing and digital painting app gets new options for image warping and sky replacement. Experimental beta builds due soon.

Native iPad edition of Photoshop gets the Healing Brush and Magic Wand from the desktop edition.

Free update to the UV unwrapping tool adds neat UV packing system and Projection unwrapping mode.

Redshift 3.0.51 update streamlines the GPU renderer's user interface. Blender plugin gets support for OSL shaders and UDIM textures.

New $450 cellphone-sized 6GB GPU is Nvidia's smallest and cheapest Ampere workstation card. Check out its key technical specs.

Just one of a new round of updates to Nvidia's collaboration platform to be announced at Siggraph 2021.

Maya's multiphysics plugin now lets you adjust properties interactively, and see the results in real time.

Learn to style digital hair and fur with The Gnomon Workshop's guide to current VFX workflows.

New early access plugins set up Instant Terra terrains in Houdini and Unreal Engine in a couple of clicks.

Get the last-but-one version of the digital painting, video processing and animation app for free, and donate to fund future development.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals the key principles of realistic quadruped walk cycles.

Nvidia's free app now automatically lip syncs Character Creator head meshes to dialog in any language.

New desktop app for playing back high-res image sequences and video will be free with the ftrack Studio production tracking system.

Updated: 3ds Max and Cinema 4D editions of the renderer both ship. Check out their new features here.

Open source plugin now converts Substances to RenderMan's new Lama materials, for use in Blender, Houdini or Maya.

Neat tools turn the motion of your mouse or stylus into sound FX for animation or motion graphics work.

Neat new plugin adds realistic dynamics to machines, muscles, cloth and hair in the Maya viewport.