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Check out its roadmap for growing USD beyond the movie industry to become the 'foundation of the open metaverse'.

Photoshop plugin for mixing colours like physical paints gets new Multimix mode with support for four simultaneous mixing fields.

Create a production-ready 3D creature with this new Gnomon Workshop tutorial from Wētā FX's Pascal Raimbault.

Need to recreate ketchup in your CG software? This free online database has the info you need.

Check out the new features for CG artists in the open-source game engine, like the material overlay system and support for 3D text.

Rromising new AI-enhanced photogrammetry app is available for both Android and iOS phones.

Create a game-ready magic attack using UE5's Niagara toolset with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.

Turn photos of actors into matching MetaHumans with the new version of the head-generation plugin.

Updated: ace USD test scene now has 300+ production-quality assets, including two rigged characters.

VFX industry body to oversee development of open standards for plugins and asset management.

Deadline, Kratatoa and the other five former Thinkbox Software products are now free to download.

Check out the new features in tyFlow, Redshift, Enscape, Render Manager and ftrack Connect 2.0.

Unusual GPU-based sculpting app gets new cloth sculpting system, plus tools for grooming hair and fur.

Check out the new features in F12's biologically accurate Blender-based tree generator, like the new Roots tool and breeze animation.

Download the free, newly GPU-accelerated tool for browsing textures and sprite sheets, like those generated by EmberGen.

Kitbash industrial interiors with RenderCrate's set of over 400 modular parts. FBX format, for commercial use.

Try the new macOS edition of the popular real-time architectural renderer. Initially for SketchUp only.

As well as standard forward rendering, the research-oriented tool can generate 3D objects matching 2D images.

New add-on generates realistic 3D clouds inside Blender, customisable using the Geometry Nodes system.

Unreal Engine creator now a board member of the governing body for rival game engine Open 3D Engine.