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Check out upcoming features in the game engine, from rendering and simulation to Megaworlds biomes, next-gen terrain and Anim Next.

Big update to the compositing and motion design app adds a DaVinci Resolve Live Link, an After Effects converter - and a new free edition.

DNEG TD Mengya Zhang's OpenCL-based tool generates realistic skin sliding without tissue simulation. Free to try on personal projects.

Compositing Academy's handy add-on creates fake rim lighting on 2D images for title sequences and motion graphics using only an alpha.

Compositing Academy's affordable add-on provides over 50 custom nodes for creating common screen graphics effects and transitions.

Master professional production workflows for managing complex simulations with The Gnomon Workshop's Houdini masterclass.

Free version of the real-time volumetric effects tool for games and VFX comes with four free stock explosion and tornado effects.

Check out the new features in the renderer, including native OpenPBR and 3D Gaussian Splatting support, and improvements to V-Ray GPU.

VFX artist Robert Rioux's handy open-source tools convert the aiStandardSurface shader to Blender's Principled BSDF.

Get CropCraft Studios' Modular Bakery Shop pack of 3D assets for creating a shop and cafe for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace.

Check out the new features in the material authoring software, including updates to the Spline tools and node graph.

New beta feature lets multiple artists collaborate on the same Photoshop file simultaneously, speeding up asset reviews.

Argentum Studio's in-house tool gives access to Unreal Engine 5's internal settings to improve the look of hair and fur in your renders.

Discover how to create story-rich environment concept art for games and VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Get free smoke and fire FX as 2K ProRes files or sequences of VDB files optimized for rendering in Blender. For commercial use.

Updated: Version 2.6 of the facial and full-body rig builder for games, animation and VFX characters comes with this free bird rig.

Free, open-source online tool for viewing and editing 3D Gaussian Splats can now play back sequences of PLY files.

Check out the new features in the virtual reality modeling software, including improvements to file export and primitives workflow.

Get free tools for generating procedural ruins and procedural flesh from SideFX's Houdini-to-UE5 game environment demo.

See the specs of the Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, and how they stack up in CG apps like D5 Render and DaVinci Resolve.