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Promising new AI-based mocap service now available via monthly as well as annual subscriptions.

Hotly tipped AI tool for automatically replacing live actors with 3D characters from Blender or Maya is now out of closed beta.

Download Meshingun Studio's The Bazaar Unreal Engine asset pack. 4K textures, for commercial use.

Master production-scale fluid simulation with ILM artist Miguel Perez Senent's detailed tutorial.

OctaneRender developer joins VFX and movie industry body alongside CoreWeave and Bolt Graphics.

Check out the new features for CG artists in the open-source game engine, including improved particle turbulence and volumetric fog.

Discover the key features in the new stable version of Unity, including better water, hair, skin and lens flares.

Big update makes the popular 3D tree-generation tool available to Houdini as well as Blender users.

Major update to the Cinema 4D plugins includes new versions of X-Particles, NeXus, plant generator Taiao and terrain tool TerraformFX.

USD-based motion design and VFX software gets new tools to apply textures to deforming surfaces, for digital makeup and logo work.

See footage of a pre-alpha build of EmberGen creator's hotly tipped upcoming real-time liquid simulator.

Popular open-source render denoiser now runs on AMD, Intel and Nvidia GPUs as well as CPUs.

Discover how to create real-time fantasy effects with Houdini and Unreal Engine in The Gnomon Workshop's introductory tutorial.

Check out the new features in the heavyweight production renderer, including new compositing modes in the Stylized Looks NPR toolset.

Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer aims to make the software 'as powerful for VFX as it is for architectural visualization'.

Download handy free brushes for sculpting hair, fur and cloth: now including a new Volume Blender.

Check out new Gnomon Workshop tutorial Creating a Swamp Scene for Games with SpeedTree & Photogrammetry.

Set of 17 high-quality meshes can be used as bases for sculpting custom 3D characters. CC0 licence.

Version 1.0 now available: free 'cloaking' tool makes it harder for AI models to learn from artists' online images.

New platform will let artists create game assets like character motions and textures from text prompts.