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Free edition of the renderer is licensed for personal use and tools development. Now includes RenderMan XPU.

Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.

3D tracking app gets new options for solving shots with anamorphic distance and with focus breathing.

Check out the new features in the suite of effects plugins for compositing and editing software.

See how the lowest-priced Ada Lovelace GPU to date performs in graphics tools like Omniverse.

Free add-on lets you generate hair braids simply by drawing freehand curves in the Blender viewport.

Check out the key specs and benchmark scores for AMD's first RDNA 3 GPUs for pro CG work.

Handy add-on Zoo Chat GPT lets you use the AI chatbot to control Maya with simple text commands.

No changes to the sculpting app beyond a new Mac installer, but the price of subscriptions rises again.

Check out the latest workflow changes to the character animation and mocap data editing software.

Get started in characxter animation with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly introduction.

Free Blender object scattering tool gets its 'most powerful update yet'. Check out what's new in it, and in Graswald's online 3D plant library.

New online service generates 2D images matching the pose of a 3D character. Currently free in beta.

Chaos's versatile object scattering tool is coming to the Maya edition of the renderer. See a demo here.

Now shipping: check out this streamlined tool for 3D modelling and concept design, described as 'CAD for artists'.

Now shipping: visualisation tool gets streamlined new UI, updated path tracer, multi-GPU rendering.

Get volumetric captures into UE5 to use as props or environments with the plugin, currently free in alpha.

Production renderer gets new sky model, new Flakes shader for car paint, new Renderview Backplate, and more updates to Redshift RT.

Check out the new tools in Maxon's Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and VFX suites of effects plugins.

New AI-powered system for controlling Maya by entering natural-language text prompts launches in beta later this month.