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Create a game-ready magic attack using UE5's Niagara toolset with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.

Turn photos of actors into matching MetaHumans with the new version of the head-generation plugin.

Updated: ace USD test scene now has 300+ production-quality assets, including two rigged characters.

VFX industry body to oversee development of open standards for plugins and asset management.

Deadline, Kratatoa and the other five former Thinkbox Software products are now free to download.

Check out the new features in tyFlow, Redshift, Enscape, Render Manager and ftrack Connect 2.0.

Unusual GPU-based sculpting app gets new cloth sculpting system, plus tools for grooming hair and fur.

Check out the new features in F12's biologically accurate Blender-based tree generator, like the new Roots tool and breeze animation.

Download the free, newly GPU-accelerated tool for browsing textures and sprite sheets, like those generated by EmberGen.

Kitbash industrial interiors with RenderCrate's set of over 400 modular parts. FBX format, for commercial use.

Try the new macOS edition of the popular real-time architectural renderer. Initially for SketchUp only.

As well as standard forward rendering, the research-oriented tool can generate 3D objects matching 2D images.

New add-on generates realistic 3D clouds inside Blender, customisable using the Geometry Nodes system.

Unreal Engine creator now a board member of the governing body for rival game engine Open 3D Engine.

Hotly tipped open-source material authoring and 3D texture painting app gets its milestone 1.0 release. Check out all of its new features.

Check out the eye-catching cloth brush and wrinkle deformer due in the GPU-based sculpting app.

Read a detailed run-down of new features in the procedural 3D app, including updates to simulation, creature effects, Solaris and Karma.

Cool free tool also integrates with the Blender OpenStreetMap plugin to recreate entire real cities in 3D.

Material authoring app gets native M1 support. See what else is new, and what has been deprecated.

But KeyShot for ZBrush has been scrapped, raising the overall cost of using the renderer with the sculpting app.