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Check out the latest features in the popular Maya fur and feathers plugin, including new nodes for resolving intersections.

Promising free Blender add-on generates rigged 3D characters with skin materials and hair, suitable for games, animation or VFX work.

Use the powerful Content Browser from the Unreal Engine 5 world-building tool free indefinitely. Comes with thousands of free 3D assets.

Features due in Unity this year include in-editor LOD generation, swappable physics backends, and more generative AI tools.

Check out the key artist features in the next version of the game engine, including support for Variable Rate Shading and better DX12 ray tracing.

New series of pro workstation and laptop GPUs include the 'most powerful desktop GPU ever created'. See its key specs for CG work.

Check out the key changes in the latest version of the open-source 3D app, including important updates to animation and the CPU compositor.

Long-awaited update to the open-source image editor adds non-destructive layer effects and better interoperability with Photoshop.

Check out the new features in the 3D texture painting app, including an Auto-update system, and more path tools, filters and texture generators.

Check out the new features in the digital painting software for comics, illustrations and concept art, including the new Puppet Warp.

Asset baking and export add-on can now bake PBR textures from any Blender shader set-up, not just the Principled BSDF shader.

Discover how to create a King Kong-style creature fight sequence with The Gnomon Workshop's new five-hour Maya masterclass.

AI-based service for VFX and animation gets rebranded as part of Autodesk's Flow cloud platform. Check out its latest features.

Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool, including Runtime Virtual Texturing and an Advanced Water Shader.

You can download the set of 1,200+ meshes of buildings and props free from Epic Games' Fab marketplace - but you'll need to be quick about it.

New free plugin based on veteran standalone app MakeHuman creates custom 3D characters, complete with skin and clothing.

Animator Tal Minks' promising Maya plugin extracts hand animation from a standard webcam and bakes it to any five-fingered Maya character.

Master professional asset development workflows for VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's advanced-level tutorial.

Check out the new features in the modular, open-source, hardware-agnostic framework for developing real-time rendering technology.

Check out the new versions of AMD's AI-based image upscaling, sharpening and frame-generation tech, available via its GPU drivers.