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Sales of the tech Academy Award-winning software, formerly used on Hollywood blockbusters, to end this November. Read our FAQs.

Check out the VFX for the offbeat Korean superhero comedy, including teleportation, telekinesis - and even a giant inflatable onion.

Check out the week's other updates to CG tools, including FumeFX 7.6 for 3ds Max, Character Control Rig 0.3.1 for Blender, and PFTrack 26.08.

Master virtual reality sculpting workflows for concept art and hard-surface design with The Gnomon Workshop's concise tutorial.

Varied update to the AI-assisted animation tool adds new animation layer system, easing controls for interpolation, and BVH import.

Games artist Adrian Melian's tool rigs and skins characters and exports USD files for use in Maya, UE5 or Blender. Free to indie artists.

See the new features in the image editing app, including updates to the Remove tool and the option to save and restore font lists.

Check out the studio's breakdown of its VFX for the epic mythological fantasy, the second-highest-grossing Indian movie of 2025.

See what we know about the World Creator developer's promising upcoming node-based material authoring app for games and VFX.

Check out the Italian studio's breakdown of the CG cars and eye-catching stunt effects for the Netflix motor sport drama.

Formerly Blender-only asset library Blendkit is now available to users of other CG software. Check out its free 3D models, materials, and HDRIs.

Updated: UE5 plugin is a 'major leap' in Gaussian Splatting workflows for VFX and virtual production. Check out its key features.

Add-ons for loading caches from the Maya crowd simulation add-on now available under an Apache 2.0 license, alongside Golaem 9.3.2.

Get up to speed with the digital sculpting software with Madeleine Scott-Spencer's popular training course, updated for ZBrush 2026.

Unusual update to the natural media painting app makes it possible to export the paint surface as a heightmap for use in 3D software.

See the the new features in the physically based GPU renderers, including a new cutaway render system and fSpy camera matching.

Check out the changes to the AI video mocap add-on for iClone, like support for CC5 HD characters, control curves, and AMD GPUs.

Open-source tool from the creators of 3D scanning app Kiri Engine gets 3DGS data into After Effects for use in compositing and motion graphics.

Successor to the popular PSA add-on adds true spectral atmospheres to Blender scenes - complete with real-world air pollution effects.

New path tracing render mode lets users render 3D characters inside Reallusion's software with 'near-offline render quality'.