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Maya edition of the renderer gets support for AMD GPU rendering, and better support for 3D Gaussian Splatting and Bifrost.

New tech compresses geometry caches from destruction, cloth and liquid sims by 'up to 92%' for real-time rendering in Unreal Engine.

Promising new free application provides a 'clean, distraction-free space' for sculpting characters and creatures for games and VFX work.

Open-source app converts 3D scans or sculpts to clean, low-poly, all-quad geometry. Comes with an unofficial Blender bridge plugin.

Check out the new features in the GPU production renderer, including updates to 3D Gaussian Splatting and the Neural Radiance Cache.

Check out the new features in the AI-powered Character Creator plugin for generating 3D digital doubles from reference photos.

Get new versions of particle tools Krakatoa MX, Frost MX, Stoke MX and XMesh MX recompiled to support current versions of 3ds Max.

Master production-proven workflows for creating weather effects in UE5 with The Gnomon Workshop's free masterclass.

New online tool lets you paint textures directly onto 3D models, or create new PBR materials by remixing a library of CC0 assets.

Major update to the soft tissue simulation add-on for Maya and Houdini adds new machine learning toolset. See all the new features.

Check out the new features in the 3D texture painting software, including new nodes for hex tiling, color grading and A/B comparisons.

Check out the changes to the compositing software, including relighting Gaussian splats and Hydra 2.0 support in the 3D viewer.

Download stock asset provider Laya Design's Unreal Engine Science Fiction Desert City Kit free from Fab for the next two weeks.

Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool - like the option to stack objects vertically when laying out scenes.

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.