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Add debris to VFX and motion graphics projects with these HD stock effects. For commercial use.

Check out the games and arch viz assets available free on Unreal Engine marketplace this month.

Add fast-rendering animatable grass to any Blender model with this free Geometry Nodes set-up.

Update makes CPU renders on Intel, AMD and Apple CPUs perceptually identical, and edits to large scenes 'nearly instantaneous'.

GPU renderer switches from OpenCL to HIP for final-quality output. Maya and Houdini editions also updated.

Material authoring app gets a new set of Spline and Path tools, but its procedural geometry toolset has been removed.

See how the first Apple Silicon Mac Pro workstation stacks up against old Intel models in After Effects, Maya, Houdini and Photoshop.

See how 'the world’s most powerful chip ever created for a personal computer' performs with CG apps like Maya, Octane and Photoshop.

Build assets for UE5 environments using Maya, ZBrush and Substance 3D Painter with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.

Check out the new features in the popular object scattering tool, including updates to ForestSets.

Free iOS scanning app turns smartphone photos into 3D models. Check out its new features.

Mobile 3D scanning app's new mode captures 360° environments on phones without 360° cameras.

Check out the key features for CG artists in the game engine's new Long Term Support release, including the new water system.

Interesting hard surface modelling add-on gets support for real-time cuts for quick shape exploration.

Check out the new features in the SketchUp edition of renderer, like cutaway rendering in V-Ray GPU.

Check out the changes planned for this major update to the open-source app's 2D animation toolset.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create 3D illustrations with a hand-drawn feel.

ZBrush Pose Tools creates a pose library in ZBrush; ZBrush Pose Link sends poses to it from Reallusion's Character Creator.

Updated with details of version 1.5: neat add-on lets you wire nodes together to create composites.

Rokoko's mocap software now lets users retarget motion to custom 3D characters. Subscription prices up.