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See the games Houdini was used on this year alongside clips of the custom tools used to create them.

Check out the curve-based hair system due in Blender 3.3, and the upcoming real-time compositor.

Neat add-ons generate textures for use inside game engines like UE5, complete with flow and ID maps.

Master 2D concept design with Transformers: Cyberverse artist Léo Chiola's Gnomon Workshop tutorial.

OpenVDB-based meshing plugin gets new GPU-accelerated, network-capable FLIP/PIC solver.

Latest update makes the renderer subscription-only, but licences work across 8 other host applications.

Popular add-on for baking fluid simulations to flipbooks and flowmaps in UE4 and UE5 is free during July 2022.

Check out the new features in the browser-based tool for turning video footage into 3D animation. You can use it for free in beta.

Suite of rig management and character animation tools brings AAA workflows to indie artists.

New 2022.35 update lets users sculpt and paint simultaneously with any of 3DCoat's voxel brushes.

Check out the new features in this sizeable update to the USD-native shot layout and look dev solution.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial sets out character creation workflows in ZBrush, Maya and Subtance Painter.

Firm sheds around 200 of the staff gained in its billion-dollar spending spree since going public in 2020.

Subscriber-only release updates Cinema 4D's cloth simulation tools and node UI, and adds new HDRIs, textures and Redshift materials.

New free edition of 3DCoat lets you create models for 3D printing. Has all of 3DCoat's sculpting tools, and is licensed for commercial use.

New free 120-page e-book provides an overview of real-time production with Unreal Engine.

Once Nvidia-only GPU renderer now supports AMD gaming and workstation GPUs on Windows as well as macOS.

Get started with materials in UE5 with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new introductory tutorial.

First public beta of Nvidia's latest Omniverse app lets users review production-complexity USD scenes in virtual reality with full ray tracing.

Update to Boris FX's set of effects plugins for compositing apps adds the option to emit particles from 3D models inside Particle Illusion.