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New free edition of 3DCoat lets you create models for 3D printing. Has all of 3DCoat's sculpting tools, and is licensed for commercial use.

New free 120-page e-book provides an overview of real-time production with Unreal Engine.

Once Nvidia-only GPU renderer now supports AMD gaming and workstation GPUs on Windows as well as macOS.

Get started with materials in UE5 with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new introductory tutorial.

First public beta of Nvidia's latest Omniverse app lets users review production-complexity USD scenes in virtual reality with full ray tracing.

Update to Boris FX's set of effects plugins for compositing apps adds the option to emit particles from 3D models inside Particle Illusion.

Get seven timelapse sequences of 360-degree HDRI skies, shot at 41 EVs, and provided in EXR format. For commercial use.

Update to the compositing app improves text animation workflow when using non-Western lanuages.

Puppet animation tool gets new free-to-use Starter mode, available to anyone with an Adobe account.

Deep FX World ends work on its LightWave fluid simulation plugin and standalone multiphysics app.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals the digital sculptor's workflow in ZBrush and KeyShot.

Neat one-click colour matching app for concept art and illustration work now supports targeted colour correction and batch processing.

Promising motion graphics add-on gets support for rendering volumetrics like smoke and clouds.

See the month's best real-time 3D models, from manga fan art to free downloadable environment scans.

3D animation software gets updates to Boolean modelling, vertex painting and HumanIK, plus new C++ SDK in Bifrost for Maya.

3D modelling and rendering tool gets new spline extrusion workflow, plus updates to key modifiers.

Image editing software gets new Cylinder warp for packaging design, better masking of hair with the basic Object Selection tool.

Updated: see the UI and feature list for the Substance plugin available in the new beta build of Photoshop.

Edit .sbsar materials inside the latest versions of the game engines with Adobe's new free plugins.

Updated: browser-based edition of Photoshop will have 'freemium' pricing once it comes out of beta.