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See the month's best real-time 3D models, from piractical mishaps to a free scan of a Mad Max-style car.

See what's new in this major compatibility-breaking update to the Substance plugin for Blender.

Amazing set of free tools and scripts adds brush- and physics-based set dressing to 3ds Max.

Free Maya modelling and rigging add-ons now include ProSets, Mainframe North's procedural modelling tool.

Discover how to create arresting visual development images in The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Open-source version of Material Definition Language to include the MDL Distiller and GLSL backend for real-time and viewport rendering.

3D texture painting app gets new teleport node system to remove visual clutter from the node graph. Perpetual licences now discontinued.

Cloud-based AI facial rigging service generates 'real-time faces' for use in Maya, Unity and UE4.

Updated: only "core components" of the award-winning image viewer and shot playback tool will be open-sourced, not the full product.

Beautiful new demo shows millions of strands of CG hair, rendered in real time in 4K on a PlayStation 5.

Check out the key specs of the three new discrete GPUs, aimed at professional CG and video work.

Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio now reflects emotions like joy and pain.

Nvidia's new AI art demo turns sketches into 360° environment maps for use inside 3D software.

'Next evolution' of OpenVDB brings the power of AI to volumetric data, reducing the memory footprint of fluid simulations by up to 100x.

Check out its roadmap for growing USD beyond the movie industry to become the 'foundation of the open metaverse'.

Photoshop plugin for mixing colours like physical paints gets new Multimix mode with support for four simultaneous mixing fields.

Create a production-ready 3D creature with this new Gnomon Workshop tutorial from Wētā FX's Pascal Raimbault.

Need to recreate ketchup in your CG software? This free online database has the info you need.

Check out the new features for CG artists in the open-source game engine, like the material overlay system and support for 3D text.

Rromising new AI-enhanced photogrammetry app is available for both Android and iOS phones.