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Improve your composition and Photoshop workflow with The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass in character and environment design.

New online tool for VFX and game artists generates ultra-detailed 16K skin textures based on an existing 3D character with 2K textures.

Fast, fun Geometry Nodes-based tool lets you block out hands, feet, paws and claws quickly for illustration or animation work.

Read our FAQs on Wonder 3D, the new text-to-3D and image-to-3D AI model in the online VFX platform formerly known as Wonder Studio.

Popular 3ds Max particle and multiphysics add-on for VFX and motion graphics gets neat new GPU-based Zenith fluid engine.

Inbibo's add-on for Maya - and now Houdini - provides a simple way to add simulated soft tissues to characters in VFX and games.

Product and portfolio rendering plugin can now create interactive standalone presentations that run outside the Unreal Edtitor.

See the latest features in the terrain generation tool for games and VFX, including AgX tonemapping and new Pattern distributions.

Neat free add-on turns splines into complex organic forms suitable for motion graphics and VFX. Works with text splines too.

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including wider use of Adobe's new Firefly Fill and Expand AI model.

See the latest features in Pixar's production renderer, including new Stylized Looks nodes for artistic lighting and hatching effects.

Free edition of the renderer is licensed for personal use and tools development. Compatible with Blender, Houdini, Katana and Maya.

Get started with the industry-standard 3D software with The Gnomon Workshop's essential three-part training series.

Check out the new features in this major update to the compositing software, like support for Gaussian splats and an updated 3D system.

Popular 3D tree generator for VFX and games work now plays nicer with real-time engines - and now supports Houdini Indie.

Sparseal's $20 iPad app includes features usually only found in more expensive desktop software, like simultaneous multichannel painting.

Check out the latest features in the motion design app just acquired by Canva, including a new Mesh solver for creating organic growth effects.

Motion design app is the 'missing piece' of Canva's Affinity design software, now available free. Read our FAQs on what it means for users.

Promising browser-based app gets a new Classic editor for video editing, as well as editors for 2D and 3D motion design.

Long-awaited update to the popular Baga Ivy Generator plugin for VFX and arch viz makes it possible to create plant growth animations.