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New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals the design process of top creature designer Ehsan Bigloo.

Check out the new features in the popular LIDAR scanning and photogrammetry app, available for iOS, Android and as an online tool.

Streamlined app for generating photorealistic CG skies, including 360° HDRIs, is out in early access.

Get a library of HDRIs optimised for Blender's Cycles renderer, packed in a .blend file. Commercial use.

Lighting and look dev software gets Material Soloing and performance profiling features to help troubleshoot complex VFX scenes.

Wide-ranging update to the natural media painting software adds new AI-boosted Liquify and Warp tools.

Check out the new features due in the next major update to the renderer - including proper support for the camera inside volumes.

See the month's best 3D models, from a free downloadable scan of a human skull to Gravity Falls fan art.

New features in the VR sculpting app include this (literally) eye-popping Boolean Split operation.

Houdini edition of the renderer gets improved support for rendering clouds, oceans and hair.

AI-aided physics-based animation software ships after years in beta. Check out its key features here.

3D texture painting software gets new USD Look export system, plus neat Roller Brush for repeating details like scales and stitches.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals VFX industry workflows for creating characters in ZBrush, Maya and Mari.

GPU-based Cinema 4D particle, liquid and granular fluid simulation tool due in new host apps in 2023.

New cloud-based media archiving system helps VFX and CG firms build online libraries of key assets.

Toolset for authoring USD scenes with the graph editor from Maya's Bifrost plugin now free under an Apache 2.0 licence.

Sizeable update to the renderer adds support for Intel's OIDN for render denoising, plus multi-scattering in volumes like clouds.

Roto and paint tool gets support for industry-standard ID matte generation system Cryptomatte.

Compositing and effects software gets support for AWS CDI in the cloud. Old Sparks plugins to be deprecated in the next update.

Updated: See what's new in Maxon's suites of effects plugins, now including Magic Bullet 2023.1.