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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.

Movie industry standards body to oversee future development of the open format for rich material data.

HitFilm and Imerge Pro developer will become the rapidly expanding stock music and video content firm's in-house software division.

Free plugin linking Replica Studios' AI voice system to iClone turns text into voice-acted facial animation.

Real-time 3D file format gets new extensions for PBR material properties like index of refraction.

In beta: optical mocap software's new 'Quantum Solver' can track 10 actors simultaneously. See all of its new features and new pricing.

New sub-€100 3D texturing app can be used to paint or bake 16k PBR texture maps for use in other DCC software or game engines.

Long-awaited major update to the sculpting and painting app ships. Check out the new features, and changes to pricing and plugins.

Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets new toon shading mode and deformation motion blur.

Versatile modelling toolkit gets neat new tools for retopologising high-res ZBrush character sculpts.

Big free update to the real-time rendering and look dev tool adds neat texturing and lighting features, RTX-accelerated render denoising.

Promising open-source node-based material authoring tool gets new 3D texture painting toolset.

Successor to Lumberyard is an unusual open-source 'AAA-capable' modular game engine that includes Amazon's new Atom renderer.