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See the month's best real-time 3D models, from free characters to entire miniature animated worlds.

Sales of digital art via NFTs divide opinion in the CG community. We spoke to artists and financial experts about the pros and cons.

Get the latest Non-Commercial edition of Pixar's renderer for personal use and plugin creation.

New RenderMan integration places the open-source 3D app on the same footing as Maya or Houdini.

Long-awaited update includes new hybrid CPU/GPU rendering mode. See all the new features here.

Discover Unreal Engine workflows for The Mandalorian-style virtual production with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.

Online library of source images for matte painters now available as 16-bit DNG RAW and 32-bit EXR files, along with 360-degree HDRI skies.

New app based on Apple's Object Capture API turns photos into textured OBJ or USDZ models.

Uncredited use of Greyscalegorilla and HDRI Haven content in videos for the Substance 3D Collection was 'a mistake'.

Veteran free digital sketching app for Mac, PC, iOS and Android gets spun off to a new independent firm.

Effects plugin suite for compositing apps gets new tools for creating 3D particle systems, plus nine new GPU-acclerated cinematic effects.

Set of effects plugins for editors and compositors adds electricity, stop motion and analog effects, plus Metal support for Mac users.

Material authoring app formerly known as Substance Alchemist also now creates lighting set-ups.

3D texture painting app gets better auto UV unwrapping, support for the new Adobe Standard Material.

Major update gives Adobe's material authoring tool a complete new procedural modelling toolkit.

Intuitive new 'virtual photography' app features physics-aware layout tools, Vulkan-based GPU rendering.

Adobe's Substance applications get new names, new logos, new products and new bundle pricing.

Buyout of Pixyz's CAD data preparation and import tools may also lead to new workflows for games artists in the Unity Editor.

GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Houdini and Maya gets new OCIO 2-based colour management system, including ACEScg support.

Free plugin based on Blender's Geometry Nodes system lets you paint plants into your 3D scenes.