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Get the real-time effects specialist's free app for generating vector fields to control particle simulations for games, motion graphics and VFX.

Check out the new features in the material authoring and 3D capture software, including OpenPBR support and new material templates.

SDK for games and CG software developers now supports FSR 4.1 AI upscaling on RDNA 3 GPUs like the Radeon RX 7000 Series.

Standalone app and plugin for adding cinematic effects to still images also now works with non-Adobe software, including Affinity.

Adobe to buy pioneering developer of AI image enhancement and upscaling tools. Read our FAQs on what the deal means for CG artists.

Rendering and visualization software gets Apple GPU support, a new cloud rendering service, and new subscription pricing.

Pro photogrammetry tool can now use both AMD consumer and workstation GPUs to speed up processing. Free to indie artists.

Updated: check out motion designer Mike Gaynor's neat After Effects alternative, currently free in beta - and now available for Windows.

Update to the 3D texture painting software for games and VFX reworks baking and UV unwrapping. Check out all of the new features.

New free edition of the real-time animation software can be used indefinitely, including on commercial projects - but there are limitations.

Read our pick of the latest artist features in the open-source game engine and real-time renderer, from better area lighting to HDR output.

Battlefield 6 developer becomes the latest - and highest-profile Corporate Platinum sponsor - of the open-source game engine.

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including the option to relight and render imported 3D Gaussian Splats.

Unity artists get updates to the Shader and VFX Graphs, but OptiX denoising and the Built-In Render Pipeline are both deprecated.

The industry-changing real-time tool is about to enter a new era. Discover what UE6 means for games, VFX and visualization artists.

Epic Games' free mocap plugin extracts full-body and finger motion from phone or camera footage to transfer to MetaHuman characters.

Image editing software now supports OCIO 2.5 - and lets you use custom AI models trained on your own images with Generate Image.

New features in the compositing and motion graphics app include DoF in the Advanced 3D renderer and a new Curl Noise effect.

Read our pick of the latest features in Unreal Engine, from Mesh Terrain to MetaHuman Crowds, by way of new rigging and animation tools.

Get Dmitriy Dryzhak's White Castle model as a modular Unity or UE5 asset package, or in FBX format for use in any CG software.