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See our pick of the 5 key new features in the open-source 3D software, from new hair grooming tools to better planar tracking.

3D software gets new soft body physics and symmetry modelling systems, OpenColorIO support. Updates are now subscription-only.

Material authoring tool can now expose parameters to make the materials it creates editable in other DCC apps.

Popular Blender library of ready-to-use 3D trees now also available for Maya. Includes controls to adjust tree colour and seasonal state.

Neat tool extracts full body animation from video in FBX and BVH format. Now supports multi-person capture.

Master modelling, animation, lighting and rendering in Maya with this three-part series of tutorials.

Check out the new features in this major update to the bonus tools for Foundry's 3D texture painting app.

UV unwrapping tools get new planar UV projection mode, Python 3 scripting, Apple Silicon support.

Now shipping: check out the new features due in the next version of the modelling toolkit for Houdini.

Check out the new features in the Maya edition of the renderer, from Enmesh geometry replication to support for USD volume shaders.

Powerful plugin recreates the beauty of analogue film inside DaVinci Resolve and After Effects.

Neat free tool turns meshes into even triangles up to 25x faster than Houdini's standard Remesh node.

Compositing software gets option to colour code keyframes to help keep animation projects organised.

Next big update to the renderer to feature Pixar's AI-trained denoiser on its release later on this year.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial sets out all of UE5's key lighting tools, from Lightmass to Lumen.

Free image up-resing tool comes with dedicated AI models for photos, 2D illustrations and anime.

KeyShot-based software for setting up shared virtual reality design reviews gets Sketch tool for adding annotations to models inside VR.

Free standalone edition of the particle generator can now emit particles from imported 3D models.

Image-editing software gets improved object masking, better 16-bit image previews, and a new neutral colour mode for the UI.

Promising browser-based service generates low-poly 3D models based on your 2D concept images.