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Appealing add-on lets you 'draw' ivy - and 70 other species of plants - directly onto your 3D meshes.

Unreal Engine add-on lets users assemble environments via drag and drop and simple text prompts.

Sizeable update to the GPU ray tracing renderer adds real-time caustics, and cutaway rendering.

Master advanced digital matte painting techniques with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

See the month's best 3D models, from original anime characters to complete virtual reality paintings.

Free companion app for the Axiom solver for Houdini makes it possible to sketch ideas for sims on the go.

Updated: New tech reconstructs 3D objects from video more accurately than current AI methods.

Big update to the digital sculpting and retopology app adds Vector Displacement Maps, Python API.

Handy new free add-on streamlines cloth simulation workflow inside the open-source 3D software.

Update to the studio management platform gives visual effects and motion graphics studios better tools for managing their job bids.

Check out the new features in the real-time puppet animation tool, including the option to edit replays.

New starter models are Wacom's cheapest pen display yet and the first Wacom One with multi-touch.

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including faster GPU rendering, and Apple Silicon support for Houdini users.

Maya muscle and soft tissue simulation plugin gets new CUDA-based GPU solver, plus option to visualise stretching in the viewport.

Check out the changes to the compositing app, including an update to the Properties panel.

KeenTools' intuitive 3D tracking plugin gets new Blender edition. Works with both props and faces.

Lightweight $20 add-on generates customisable wind-animated trees inside the open-source 3D app.

Update to Android and iOS scanning app adds support for AI-based reconstruction of 3D objects.

New AI services will let artists generate materials, textures or HDRIs inside Maya's LookdevX.

Check out the Summer 2023 updates to Nvidia's online design platform, plus plans to integrate Adobe's generative AI toolset.