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Unusual app for building reusable animation libraries gets nonlinear motion editing and new facial rigging and animation toolsets.

Create a movie-quality 3D superhero with Eternals concept artist Luca Nemolato's Gnomon Workshop tutorial.

Real-time visualisation tool gets new GPU path tracer, HDRI skydomes, support for point clouds.

Private equity-led deal to unite developers of three of arch viz's most popular renderers. All of both firms' products remain available.

Pixologic founder Ofer Alon and entire ZBrush team have joined Maxon. See what the deal means for ZBrush and its sibling products.

See the month's best real-time 3D models, from free downloadable cars to entire animated scenes.

Change follows the completion of Maxon's acquisition of Pixologic's assets on 29 December 2021.

Get free rendered explosions for use in VFX compositing. 2K EXR image sequences; commercial use.

New tools to improve workflow between Blender and iClone and Character Creator due this year.

Current RTX gaming cards now run from the $249 GeForce RTX 3050 to the new 'monster' RTX 3090 Ti.

Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio can now create sets of facial shapes for export in USD format.

Real-time collaboration platform for 3D design and content creation now out of beta. Check out all of its latest features here.

Open-source renderer and its Blender plugin get support for OpenColorIO 2. Parsing of mesh lights '3x faster'.

[Sponsored] New online platform makes animation easy for game developers and AR/VR creators.

Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.

Including end of life for Meshmixer and the 3ds Max Asset Library, and unified licences for Chaos Phoenix.

Check out the new features in the 'AAA-capable' open-source game engine built on AWS's Lumberyard.

Get 6 free FX clips of emergency flares, 19 cartoon fire and smoke effects, and 50 dirt textures. For commercial use.

Create trees and grasses for use in Unreal Engine with Naughty Dog artist Peyton Varney's new Gnomon Workshop tutorial.

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