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GPU-accelerated UV packing plugin gets new UV tracking and stacking systems. Now available for Windows, Linux and macOS.

Create a VFX sequence of a character dissolving using Unreal Engine, Houdini and Photoshop with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.

Promising tool lets you set up a USD-based VFX pipeline 'out of the box'. Works with Blender, Maya, Houdini, Nuke, UE5 and ZBrush.

Browser-based generative AI platform could soon generate complete 360° game environments from text prompts or sketches.

Heavyweight lighting and look dev software gets new Native USD framework to power up USD workflows. Live Rendering now 'up to twice as fast'.

Discover how MPC transformed Paris into a post-apocalyptic city with its VFX for the latest series in The Walking Dead universe.

See Cinesite's breakdown of some of the 21 minutes of animation it produced for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.

Add-on brings the outline rendering toolset used on anime movies to the open-source 3D app. Now supports viewport rendering and EPS export.

Discover how to create compellling marketing images for games in SketchUp and Photoshop with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

High-res character based on scans of France's most tattooed man comes as a UE5 project with 8K PBR textures and a MetaHuman rig.

Find assets for the open-source 3D software in top Blender news site BlenderNation's curated directory of models, add-ons and training.

Discover which colleges were named the best for 3D animation, game art, visual effects, and overall world's best creative school.

Blenderesse's neat add-on generates animated 3D birds for use in the backgrounds of animations or motion graphics. Now free in beta.

Check out the Czech VFX studio's making-of for its (largely) invisible effects from the live-action Barbie movie.

Check out the new features in the GPU production renderer, and the current state of the Octane 2023 product roadmap.

Check out the new features in the compositing and effects software, including a new workflow for subtitles and H.264 export.

Free generative AI plugin creates images and textures inside After Effects from text prompts, or even frames of a composition.

Check out the CG dogs MPC created for the canine comedy, with the help of Houdini/USD-based fur grooming toolset LOMA.

Real-time visualization software gets Lumen real-time GI system, plus support for animated meshes and Substance materials. Price up $250.

Discover how Rodeo FX created the gigantic, scorpion-like CG Pit Monster from Season 3 of the fantasy series.