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Get over 30 free 3D scans of desert plants, rocks and ground materials in Blender, FBX and USD format, and 10 16K HDRIs. CC0 license.

Master professional hair and fur grooming techniques for visual effects with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.

Maya's multiphysics plugin gets experimental new modular rigging toolset, plus the option to generate variant simulations in the cloud.

Browser-based text-to-animation generative AI tool can now be used to create seamless animation cycles, and to retarget animation.

Sizeable update to the open-source game engine adds a new mobile render pipeline, and lets you create games without a C++ compiler.

Free web app will let artists tell generative AI firms not to train AI models on their images and videos. So will it work? Read our FAQs.

Check out the new features in Grease Pencil 3, the long-awaited overhaul of Blender's 2D animation toolset, now available in beta builds.

Master professional CG lighting workflows in Maya, Arnold, Katana and Nuke with The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.

Scans Factory's Temples of Cambodia asset pack comprises 120+ 3D scans of ruined temples for use in virtual production and VFX.

Check out the new features in the promising tool for fitting 3D clothing to humanoid avatars, including a new real-time cloth physics system.

Updated: the new desktop mode in Leopoly's promising digital sculpting app now supports stylus as well as mouse and keyboard.

Read our FAQs on the new Unreal Engine pricing for games launched under the upcoming 'Launch Everywhere with Epic' program.

Real-time visualization software gets new wind animation controls for plants and fabric. Check out the other new features here.

Tree-generation software gets new tools for pruning trees and adding 3D vines. Now available as a single edition for games and VFX.

Get up to speed with the digital sculpting software with Madeleine Scott-Spencer's popular tutorial, now updated for ZBrush 2024.

Handy add-on uses position data to add imperfections to renders from 3D applications like Blender, Houdini and Maya within Nuke.

Neat free add-on from the developer of Kiri Engine lets you manipulate and render 3DGS scans directly inside Blender.

Updated: See the new tools due in the game engine in 2025, including updates to shading, rendering, animation and world building.

Major update to the popular scattering plugin adds new ForestIvy add-on for generating 3D ivy and other climbing plants.

Try the 'state-of-the-art' new iterative UV unwrapping algorithm available in alpha builds of the open-source 3D software.