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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.

Including end of life for Meshmixer and the 3ds Max Asset Library, and unified licences for Chaos Phoenix.

Check out the new features in the 'AAA-capable' open-source game engine built on AWS's Lumberyard.

Get 6 free FX clips of emergency flares, 19 cartoon fire and smoke effects, and 50 dirt textures. For commercial use.

Create trees and grasses for use in Unreal Engine with Naughty Dog artist Peyton Varney's new Gnomon Workshop tutorial.

Site updates may be slower until the New Year, but normal service resumes on Monday 3 January.

Animate 3D characters in your web browser via a free keyframe editor or AI-based motion capture tools.

Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.

Open-source 3D app now receives at least €120,000/year from all major CPU and GPU manufacturers.

New GPUOpen MaterialX library provides free PBR materials in the new open format for look dev data.

Now officially shipping: new plugin lets users import, compose and render USD scenes in Blender.

GPU renderers for visualisation and portfolio work get versatile object scattering and instancing system.

Natural media painting app gets 'world first' colour-mixing system to mimic how real pigments blend.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create game cinematic's using UE4's Sequencer.

Get 22 models of black alders in .uasset format with LODs and 8k textures from the new Megascans Trees range.

Parametric modelling plugin gets new banking controls for splines; can now distribute lights and VDBs.

Compositing software gets Universal Text Engine for titling and motion graphics. New Extended Viewport for 3D work now in beta.