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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.

New $1,000 product bundle includes all of Insydium's Cinema 4D plugins and asset packs, plus new modelling add-on MeshTools.

Check out this three-minute short with environments rendered in real time inside Unreal Engine 4.27.

Promising open-source project aims to track bodies, fingers and faces on two consumer webcams.

Discover how to light and shade a photorealistic human character with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.

Modelling and rendering app gets new Curve Booleans system, plus updates to scene testing, the mPath renderer, and USD support.

Buyout to 'deepen integration' of IDV's tree-authoring technology with Unity, starting in Unity 2021.2.

Unreal Engine dev acquires the leading 3D model portfolio service and library of AR-ready content. Fees cut on the Sketchfab store.

Software giant's Gold sponsorship provides €30,000/year to help develop the open-source 3D app.

Digital painting app gets Photoshop-style Adjustment layers, improved layer masking, plus image alignment guides and grids.

Render previews or final frames faster on multi-core CPUs with the latest beta of the compositing app.

Sizeable update to the CG studio management platform reworks artists' timecards, and introduces a new rules-based payroll system.