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Free environment scene demos Unreal Engine 5.2's Procedural Content Generation framework and Substrate materials.

AI-assisted head-generation plugin for Character Creator can now turn 3D meshes - including partial facial scans - into full CC4 characters.

Check out the new features in Reallusion's 3D character generator and real-time animation software.

Nifty new electromagnetic field generator will reduce drift when used with Rokoko's Smartsuit Pro II and Smartgloves mocap systems.

Discover how to create assets for games with The Gnomon Workshop's new beginner's guide.

Update improves CPU rendering performance, adds render backplate system in 3ds Max, deformation motion blur in Blender.

Neat tool for sculpting and deforming animation caches from other DCC apps gets new FBX pipeline for use with game engines.

Virtual reality modeling software gets new live Boolean preview and support for viewport ray tracing.

Hotly tipped toolset can transfer facial motion from iPhone footage to a MetaHuman in Unreal Engine.

Photorealistic short shows the quality of facial performances provided by Epic Games' new UE5 mocap toolset.

Check out the new features in the Houdini edition of V-Ray, like the TexBump2Glossiness node for materails like skin.

Master games animation in Maya with The Gnomon Workshop's new nine-hour step-by-step tutorial.

Check up the new features in the popular suite of effects plugins, including a sizeable update to particle generator Particle Illusion.

Create your own modular rigging system in Python with The Gnomon Workshop's advanced tutorial.

Browser-based art platform's new AI Assistant is based on Stable Diffusion, but offers AI tagging and prompt tracking.

Add debris to VFX and motion graphics projects with these HD stock effects. For commercial use.

Check out the games and arch viz assets available free on Unreal Engine marketplace this month.

Add fast-rendering animatable grass to any Blender model with this free Geometry Nodes set-up.

Update makes CPU renders on Intel, AMD and Apple CPUs perceptually identical, and edits to large scenes 'nearly instantaneous'.

GPU renderer switches from OpenCL to HIP for final-quality output. Maya and Houdini editions also updated.