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Free update to the UV unwrapping tool adds neat UV packing system and Projection unwrapping mode.

Redshift 3.0.51 update streamlines the GPU renderer's user interface. Blender plugin gets support for OSL shaders and UDIM textures.

New $450 cellphone-sized 6GB GPU is Nvidia's smallest and cheapest Ampere workstation card. Check out its key technical specs.

Just one of a new round of updates to Nvidia's collaboration platform to be announced at Siggraph 2021.

Maya's multiphysics plugin now lets you adjust properties interactively, and see the results in real time.

Learn to style digital hair and fur with The Gnomon Workshop's guide to current VFX workflows.

New early access plugins set up Instant Terra terrains in Houdini and Unreal Engine in a couple of clicks.

Get the last-but-one version of the digital painting, video processing and animation app for free, and donate to fund future development.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals the key principles of realistic quadruped walk cycles.

Nvidia's free app now automatically lip syncs Character Creator head meshes to dialog in any language.

New desktop app for playing back high-res image sequences and video will be free with the ftrack Studio production tracking system.

Updated: 3ds Max and Cinema 4D editions of the renderer both ship. Check out their new features here.

Open source plugin now converts Substances to RenderMan's new Lama materials, for use in Blender, Houdini or Maya.

Neat tools turn the motion of your mouse or stylus into sound FX for animation or motion graphics work.

Neat new plugin adds realistic dynamics to machines, muscles, cloth and hair in the Maya viewport.

Cinema 4D and LoUPE developers become members of industry body to promote open-source VFX tech.

Find out how to model and texture this Viper Dragon in The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

3D animation software gets new global search feature, tools for authoring interactive tutorials, and updates to the deformer system.

Unusual physics-based animation software gets a new Graph Editor, new tools for tweening character poses, and new spline IK system.

Free subscriptions to the VFX shot review tool available to Nuke users with active maintenance contracts.