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See the month's best 3D models, from painterly environments to badass Borderlands characters.

Unusual free tool provides a quick way to rough out ideas for props, concept art or product designs.

Check out the new features in this wide-ranging update to the renderer, including USD export.

Mohsen Tabasi's award-winning free tool minimises visible repeats by tiling textures using a hex grid.

Handy free tool lets you take screenshots from After Effects' Composition Panel in one click.

Download any part of Geopipe's 3D reconstruction of NYC in standard 3D formats. For commercial use.

Get up to 10 lightweight, AR-ready textures, including bulding facades, free from the newly revamped online library.

Low-cost digital painting app gets interesting option to render out 3D models to use as custom brushes.

Update makes Intel's OIDN denoiser and Cinema 4D's Brick and Tile shaders available to all of the renderer's host applications.

Use Dream Textures, DeepBump and DT2DB Bridge to create PBR materials in Blender 'in one click'

Compositing app gets support for OCIO and ACES colour managment for VFX and movie editing projects.

Major update adds complete new terrain-generation system to the Max particle and physics add-on.

New Unreal Engine 5 edition integrates 3d-io's popular UV packing tool into the game engine.

Get 50 stock FX clips, including explosions, fire and magic effects. ProRes/H.264 format, up to 4K, for commercial use.

Learn character animation from DreamWorks' Kelly Vawter with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Check out the upcoming features in Adobe's digital sculpting software, like real-time ray traced lighting.

Other tech 'Oscars' go to Pixar's Fizt2 simulation system and Wētā FX's in-house render manager.

Neat new set dressing plugin can automatically add ornaments and books to the furniture in a scene.

Innovative character animation app gets revamped animation layer system, neat animatable sculpt tool.

Scene layout and rendering app gets presets for turntable renders, USD export and CAD file import.