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New free edition of the real-time animation software can be used indefinitely, including on commercial projects - but there are limitations.

Read our pick of the latest artist features in the open-source game engine and real-time renderer, from better area lighting to HDR output.

Battlefield 6 developer becomes the latest - and highest-profile Corporate Platinum sponsor - of the open-source game engine.

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including the option to relight and render imported 3D Gaussian Splats.

Unity artists get updates to the Shader and VFX Graphs, but OptiX denoising and the Built-In Render Pipeline are both deprecated.

The industry-changing real-time tool is about to enter a new era. Discover what UE6 means for games, VFX and visualization artists.

Epic Games' free mocap plugin extracts full-body and finger motion from phone or camera footage to transfer to MetaHuman characters.

Image editing software now supports OCIO 2.5 - and lets you use custom AI models trained on your own images with Generate Image.

New features in the compositing and motion graphics app include DoF in the Advanced 3D renderer and a new Curl Noise effect.

Read our pick of the latest features in Unreal Engine, from Mesh Terrain to MetaHuman Crowds, by way of new rigging and animation tools.

Get Dmitriy Dryzhak's White Castle model as a modular Unity or UE5 asset package, or in FBX format for use in any CG software.

Blender version of the renderer also gets a new Node Wrangler and GPU rendering on AMD GPUs, including in the free Community Edition.

New version of the terrain design software adds new macro system and 16K baking, but release dates for Gaea 2.4 and 3.0 pushed back.

Major update to the 3D modeling and animation software adds new physics-based layout, rigging, VFX and camera tracking tools.

Get a free Maya creature rig with both body and facial controls, created using Maya character rigging framework BEAR.

Master professional simulation workflows using Houdini's Vellum solver with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed six-hour tutorial.

Planar and 3D tracking software gets AI-based point tracking tech for tracking previously impossible shots. See the other new features.

Open-source game engine gets new native particle system, updates to tonemapping and the physical sky, and automatic LOD generation.

Check out the new features in the GPU renderer, including updates to hex tiling, and support for DoF in real-time renderer Redshift Live.

3D animation and motion graphics software gets a new, completely redesigned UV Editor and UV tools. Check out all of the changes here.