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New 'open marketplace' replaces the Unreal Engine Marketplace and will replace the ArtStation and Sketchfab stores. Read our FAQs.

Currently free in beta: new web-based platform is geared towards VFX and post-production artists looking to upscale shots to 4K or 8K.

Compositing Academy's neat free VFX tool offers a simple way to create flows of energy and light, or art direct stock FX elements.

Create a portfolio-worthy 3D character with Naughty Dog Senior Character Artist Colleen Larson's tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.

Jesse Miettinen's versatile Geometry Nodes set-ups generate procedural 3D buildings, trees, ivy - and even car animation rigs - inside Blender.

Long-awaited major release of the game engine ships. Check out its new features, new release schedule, and new pricing and licensing.

Grab the files for the lead character and environment from the beautiful real-time demo for the new graphics and simulation features in Unity 6.

Interesting experimental AI technologies relight images during compositing, and use 3D to guide the layout of 2D images.

3D modeling and animation app gets support for the OpenPBR material standard, and performance updates to key modifiers.

Update to the 3D animation tool reworks Boolean modeling, and introduces OpenPBR support and interesting new simulation features.

New Flow Graph Engine API and Flow Animating in Context will help connect Autodesk's cloud platform to desktop apps like Maya.

Open-source vector design tool gets improvements to workflow with filters, fonts and color palettes, and support for Affinity Designer files.

Adobe's new standalone app lets users drag and drop 3D models into Photoshop and have them appear as editable Smart Objects.

Compositing software gets 'more modern', legible interface design, and 'decluttered' 3D model import. See all of the changes here.

Image-editing software gets new AI object removal and generative AI features, plus native support for OpenColorIO and ACES.

Major update to the real-time lighting and look dev tool adds support for UDIM workflows, interactive baking, hybrid rendering.

Get over 30 free 3D scans of desert plants, rocks and ground materials in Blender, FBX and USD format, and 10 16K HDRIs. CC0 license.

Master professional hair and fur grooming techniques for visual effects with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.

Maya's multiphysics plugin gets experimental new modular rigging toolset, plus the option to generate variant simulations in the cloud.

Browser-based text-to-animation generative AI tool can now be used to create seamless animation cycles, and to retarget animation.