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Check out the changes to the 3ds Max hair plugin for games and VFX, including a new Warp Roots modifier to help groom feathers.

Check out the changes to the Maya plugin for creating hair and fur for games and VFX, including fast new workflows for braiding hair.

Master efficient workflows for creating professional visual effects with The Gnomon Workshop's intermediate-level Houdini tutorial.

New collaboration between Khronos Group and the Open Geospatial Consortium paves the way towards support for 3DGS data in glTF files.

Turn any MetaHuman exported from Unreal Engine into a ready-to-animate character with the updated Metahuman for Houdini add-on.

Check out the new features in the animation software, including support for Character Creator 5, and new export presets for UE5.

Check out the new features in this major update to the 3D character creation app, from the new HD base characters to the new Maya plugin.

Read our pick of the changes in Houdini 21, from Copernicus and KineFX to new AI workflows - then see a list of all 300+ new features.

First big update to the new edition of V-Ray for Blender users adds support for Geometry Nodes and a Cycles-to-V-Ray material converter.

Wacom ups its funding for Blender by €210,000/year in partnership to develop 'next-gen" Blender experience on Android tablets.

Check out the price and key specs for the 'industry first' pen display with Calman Ready built in for color calibration for high-end CG work.

Master professional workflows for creating games environments with The Gnomon Workshop's intermediate-level tutorial.

Check out the new machine learning models in the pro upscaling plugin for compositing and video editing applications.

SDK for developers looking to integrate FidelityFX tech into their apps now includes latest version of the AI image upscaling system.

Clothing design tool gets the option to create garment parts by drawing onto a 3D avatar, and an AI Pose Generator. See the other changes.

Minor update to the image-editing and digital painting software adds a new Star tool for drawing regular star polygons on the canvas.

Game engine's new AI toolset includes generative AI features for creating sprites, textures and animations. Check out our FAQs.

Smoke, fire and effects plugin gets GPU-accelerated ocean simulation system, with support for foam, spray and floating objects.

Indie users can now use the real-time effects tech to compress and play back an unlimited number of OpenVDB sequences for free.

Check out the changes due in the next major update to the popular GPU-accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver for games and VFX.