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Check out the major features now in development for the open-source 3D software and due for release in Blender 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and beyond.

Neat new add-on displays the effect of individual shapes as real-time heatmaps, helping troubleshoot complex facial and full-body rigs.

Tool for auto-fitting 3D clothing to 3D characters gets new plugins for round-tripping assets to Unity and Unreal. Supports MetaHumans.

Take your character animation to the next level with Disney animator Alissar Kobeissi's masterclass for The Gnomon Workshop.

Long-awaited update will let you denoise animation properly with the CPU/GPU denoiser, used in apps like Blender and V-Ray.

Generate growth animations for forms from corals to crystals with motion designer Gio Gargiulo's neat Houdini toolset, now free in beta.

Open-source rigging and animation framework gets a new blueprint system - and a Softimage-inspired alternative to Maya's Outliner.

Check out the new features in the terrain-generation software for games and VFX, including better support for tablets and pen displays.

Check out the latest features in the image-editing software, including two new adjustment layer types and updates to the generative AI tools.

Animal Logic-incorporating Netflix subsidiary becomes 'first major animation studio to support Blender's continued development'.

Read our pick of the key changes to rendering, animation and physics in the open-source game engine - plus five neat quality-of-life updates.

New add-on adds DaVinci Resolve-inspired controls for cinematic color grades, film grain and lens effects in Blender's compositor. Free edition.

Games artist Grzegorz Baran's meticulously researched PBR Color Reference list is an vital source for look dev and shading artists.

Second major round of layoffs at the 3ds Max and Maya developer in a year will affect sales staff and is not "an effort to replace people with AI".

Check out the new features in the digital painting and animation app, including a new rich text system and built-in video transcoding.

Dell becomes the first major PC manufacturer to back development of the open-source 3D software, contributing €30,000/year.

Thinkinetic's destruction plugin now lets users update the geometry or shatter pattern of the object being broken after a sim has been run.

Check out the promising new GPU-accelerated sparse liquid solver from Theory Accelerated, creator of the popular Axiom fluid solver.

Now production-ready: neat new tool creates VFX-quality fluid simulations for export to CG software in USD or Alembic format.

Check out the new features for CG, VFX and motion graphics artists in the latest major update to Adobe's compositing software.