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The US's SCAD places first overall. See the category winners for animation, game design and VFX.

See the month's best 3D models, from anime characters to this amazing free scanned interior.

Viewport rendering tech lets users of AMD's pro GPUs view models with 4K clarity on HD monitors.

Material authoring tool once known as Substance Alchemist gets new Color Picker, support for SVG files.

Check out the new features in the free update to the digital sculpting software, including improvements to the BevelArc and IMM brushes.

Production tracking system's new high-level overviews show which artists in a studio are over- or under-worked.

Voxel sculpting, retopology and 3D painting software gets option to bake RGB cavity maps and improved Smart Material workflow.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to prepare 3D scans for use in production pipelines.

Token-based payment system now available alongside subscriptions for apps like 3ds Max and Maya.

Check out the new features in the 3D modelling and animation software, including new scaling controls for the Solidify deformer.

Update overhauls UV workflow, and improves USD export and support for tablet pen pressure.

See the best VFX and animation work created with V-Ray, plus tech breakdowns of the key projects.

Check out Polygonflow's scattering tool, available with the trial of its GraphN visual programming app.

Enter the top CG art contest before 8 December, and you could win prizes worth thousands of dollars.

New versions of Trapcode Suite, VFX Suite and Magic Bullet Suite available only via subscriptions.

Updated, new demo: Check out the FAQs for Clarisse iFX's next-gen CPU/GPU render engine, and see how it performs on gaming GPUs.

Powerful multiphysics plugin gets new MPM solver to simulate granular fluids like sand and snow.

Physically based 'really real-time' renderer gets new Sheen effect to mimic the look of real-world fabrics.

3D software gets updated UI, new Capsules and presets workflows, direct import of vector files, new options for stylising animations.

See the new particle design and flocking options in the suite of motion graphics and VFX plugins.