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You can download popular Maya rig creator Truong CG Artist's handy anatomy reference software free while it's in early access.

Big update to the UE5 product and portfolio rendering plugin also lets you generate virtual scan data for use in 3D Gaussian Splatting apps.

Join Jules Urbach as he presents his vision for the future of GPU- and AI-driven rendering and how it will impact gaming, visual effects, media, design, and art into the 2030s and beyond.

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Widhi Muttaqien writes: The premise of Extrude Manifold was great. However, even after five years, the feature does not deliver what people expected. This video shows workarounds that allow the Extrude Manifold tool in Blender to achieve results similar to those of the extrude tools in other 3D software.

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Georgie is asking for your input on his upcoming version of Citigen. Citigen 2026 is coming with a Sci-Fi pack, but your opinions matter! Citigen can now come with city blocks and buildings where no building looks identical, but .... Would you prefer (1) a lower-spec-pc-friendly version with limited roads & intersections? Or (2) would [...]

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The Material Point Method (MPM) is a powerful technique for physical simulations, combining elastic, rigid, sand, and fluid objects. Over the past decade, it has become an important tool for VFX. Houdini and Maya already support it. In this talk, you will get an intuitive explanation of how MPM works and a showcase of a [...]

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Promising new tool based on the Storm multiphysics simulator exports liquid sims in Alembic format for use in other CG apps.

Sergey_Minenko writes: This reel showcases my work as a 3D Generalist across films, Netflix series, and commercial projects. Featured works include Fight or Flight, Great Expectations, Moawia, as well as advertising projects for NASA, Saudia Airlines, and HP. Modeling: Blender Texturing: Substance Painter  

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Big update to the motion design software adds a planar tracker, chroma keying, and support for file referencing to create precomps.

Animation Renaissance Studio present the result of almost 5 years of work with their trailer of "Angela's Dream", which has been submitted to various film festivals. Richard Culver writes: This started as a project called We Thrive Together, which I decided to turn into a feature. Angela’s Dream is basically an excerpt from the larger [...]

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The iPad editions of the image-editing, vector design and page layout tools are currently available with no in-app purchase needed.

In this tutorial, Allan Britto will explain how to directly import SKP files from SketchUp to Blender with free Add-ons.

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Read our FAQs on why Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher have been taken off sale ahead of an announcement on 30 October.

Case study of how we transitioned from Maya to Blender, and used, learned and implemented everything we found in the Blender toolbox to create our own unique style for "Spiritquest"

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