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'Most feature-rich' update to the open-source rigging framework adds tools for automating Set Driven Key setup and blendshape transfer.

Latest update to the popular suite of sketch-based retopology tools fixes a long-standing issue with Blender itself. Check out the other changes.

Discover how to create gameplay animation in Unreal Engine with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed beginners' guide.

Skydance Animation lighting artist Borja Rama's amazing tool builds pro-quality gobos for VFX, motion graphics and general CG work.

AI-powered browser-based tool generates idles and movement cycles from text prompts. You can export five per month in FBX format.

Artist-focused platform aims to provide a better way to share CG shorts, breakdowns and demo reels than the big video hosting services.

New online service automatically generates alpha mattes for image sequences or videos. See how it compares to other AI roto tools.

Check out the updates to animation and rendering in the real-time 3D engine. New pricing, but still free for indie games and VFX projects.

Sparseal's promising new tool for non-photorealistic texturing is now available for Windows desktop and mobile systems, as well as iPads.

Check out the new features in the image-editing app, including tighter integration with online mood boarding platform Firefly Boards.

VFX and motion graphics tools firm buys Magix's pro video and audio editing software. New version of Vegas Pro already available.

Poly Hammer's Character DNA add-on lets you edit MetaHuman facial and body rigs inside Blender, including their RBF corrective poses.

VFX artist Marty Blumen's neat free add-on renders volumes like clouds and fire in Nuke without round-tripping to an external renderer.

Promising 'minimalist 3D sculpting' tool runs in a browser, on Windows, Mac and Linux, and as an iPad app. Free for personal use.

Digital painting and animation tool gets new accompanying web-based apps, including a complete low-poly 3D landscape generator.

SDK for games and CG software developers now includes AMD's Redstone AI rendering technologies, including the new AI denoiser.

Digital sculpting software gets its sixth consecutive annual update with no new features listed, but the price of annual subscriptions is up.

Rendering and visualization software gets support for OpenPBR materials in USD files, and updates to the rendering and animation toolsets.

New CUDA-based GPU solver makes smoke and fire simulation in the Maya fluid dynamics plugin '2-5x' faster than on the CPU.

New features in the character animation and mocap-editing software include new quaternion math tools for complex rigs.