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Try promising open-source add-ons for camera tracking and markerless facial, finger and body mocap.

Interesting standalone app authors fibre- or card-based hair for use in game engines and real-time apps.

V-Ray and Corona still dominate market, but UE4, Twinmotion and D5 Render all gaining ground.

New two-part Gnomon Workshop tutorial sets out his approach to story development and concept art.

New free web-based production tracking tool provides a visual overview of a movie or animation.

See news of Autodesk's latest acquisition, Blender's latest backer, and a free glossary of virtual production terms.

Plugin for importing V-Ray scenes into Unreal Engine gets support for render relighting, skeletal meshes.

Neat add-on generates attractively stylised trees that can be exported to DCC apps or game engines.

Unreal Engine plugin for the Atoms Crowd simulation system gets support for runtime variation and 'XPU animation'.

Quinton Qu's incredible feat of visual programming wins Adobe's 2021 Substance 3D Designer Insanity Award.

Material authoring tool gets new Physical Size system for scanned materials, new Cloth Weave filter.

Updated: New visual programming system for Maya and Unreal Engine now free for non-commercial use.

Architectural modelling app gets improved curve drawing, new search and tagging features, native support for Apple's M1 processors.

Buyout of leading character rigging and simulation tools developer strengthens Unity's portfolio of digital human and creature tech.

See how the $229 hardware-accelerated ray tracing-capable GPU performs with CG apps like Photoshop and Rhino.

Get free rigged 3D characters and mocap moves from Reallusion's ActorCore library. FBX format, for commercial use.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create a horror movie effect from start to finish.

Sales of the Modo and Katana editions of the renderer have ended, but support continues until December 2022.

Games artist Nathaniel Albright's neat free tool combines multiple materials into a single texture map.

Discover how to model, texture and light ultra-realistic 3D characters with tips from leading CG artists.