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Newly rebranded plugin transfers 3D characters, shaders, rigs and animation from Character Creator and iClone to Blender.

Get 125 free cloud textures on black backgrounds for background compositing in VFX or motion graphics projects. Commercial use.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create 3D characters with animation-friendly, production-ready topology in Maya and ZBrush.

Hair and fur plugin gets new tools for 'grafting' procedural hair grooms onto a character, and 'boxing' operators into single modifiers.

Check out the new features in the suite of motion graphics and VFX plugins and the online library of effects and transitions.

Read our pick of the features in this huge update to the game engine, from MegaLights to character rigging, animation and rendering.

Update to the 3D compositing app extends USD and OCIO workflow, and adds new options for toggling between inputs in compositions.

Discover the key features for VFX artists and colorists in the free grading and editing software and its $295 Studio edition.

Neat free extension lets you apply painterly brushstrokes to the surface of 3D models while texturing them, and control the strokes procedurally.

Veteran 3D modeling and rendering software retired after 20 years, with no further updates expected after Modo 17.1, due later this year.

New batches of commercial tools and assets will be made available free on the online marketplace for two weeks, every two weeks.

Freshcan 3D's Military Airport pack is a set of 3D buildings, roads and props, licensed for commercial use in any game engine or CG software.

AI-based system lets you find online stock assets matching reference images or plain-text descriptions, directly inside the apps.

Royalty-free open-source codec for professional video production is the VFX industry standards body's latest hosted project.

Rigging artist Walter Delgado's intuitive add-on retargets animation between 3D characters, regardless of rig structure.

First paid version of the nifty 3D sketching app for iPad is a major update, adding new 3D liquify, lighting and post effects toolsets.

Discover an efficient professional concept art workflow in Blender and Photoshop with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Crate's Unmult, Crate's Chromatic Aberration and Crate's Long Shadow streamline common tasks in VFX, motion graphics and CG work.

Get the DNEG Lead Animator's neat free creature rig, licensed for use in portfolio work, and supplied as a Maya MB scene file.

Check out the new features in the real-time visualization software, including improvements to software ray tracing and Artistic Visual Modes.