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Check out the new features in the GPU renderers, including initial USD support and a complete new animation system.

Check out the new features in the sculpting and retopology app, including integration with RealityCapture for photogrammetry.

Check out the neat new Sky Paint tools in the December 2024 update to the sky-creation tool for VFX, visualization and games work.

Environment generation software gets highly multithreaded rendering, plus heightfield export to 16-bit TIFFs for Unity and Unreal Engine.

Current beta build of the image-editing app lets users create and import custom image-stylization filters as Substance 3D .sbsar files.

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including tiled denoising, and support for the new versions of Maya and Houdini.

[Sponsored] Discover how Reallusion's free plugin streamlines the transfer of characters from Character Creator 4 to 3ds Max.

Check out the new features in the sculpting tool for VR and desktop systems, and its new lower-cost edition for Meta Quest 3 headsets.

Check out the changes to font browsing in the latest workflow update to the image editing and digital painting software.

New non-photorealistic rendering branch of the open-source 3D app is being developed with input from anime firm DillonGoo Studios.

Popular lightweight Blender fluid simulation add-on now lets you art direct simulations with guide curves. Check out the other new features.

Game engine now imports meshes, materials, lights and animation in USD format, including in the free Community edition.

Tracking app's new AI-powered roto workflow lets users isolate objects with a single click, then propagate the matte through an entire shot.

Discover how to create 3D designs that can be turned into physical movie props with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.

Scene layout and rendering app gets new generative AI features, including a new text-to-3D system for creating background models.

New iPad and iPhone edition of Nekki's AI-assisted character animation software can now import and export data in FBX format.

Check out the popular GPU-accelerated UV packing and UV stacking tool, now available for Maya as well as Blender.

Neat free Geometry Nodes setup lets you create 3D animation using 2D workflows in Blender's Grease Pencil toolset.

SketchUp edition of the renderer gets support for 3D Gaussian Splats, luminaires for lighting, and new material override options.

Check out the new features in the lighting and look development software, including support for USD export and USD roundtripping.