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See the month's best real-time 3D models, from samurai skaters to free downloadable vehicle models.

Updated: new free plugin for editing Substance materials inside Blender now also works on Linux.

Perpetual licences of the GPU renderer discontinued in favour of subscription plans. See the prices for individuals and teams here.

New $45 Maya retopology plugin transfers the proportions of a raw 3D scan to a low-poly mesh suitable for use in animation work.

New cloud service to provide studios of all sizes with access to the Academy Award-winning VFX facility's in-house Houdini tools.

Neat control system lets users edit parametric models intelligently by dragging on them in the viewport.

See our pick of UE4's new features, from more in-camera visual effects tools to multi-GPU lightmap baking.

Create hair for a male character in Maya's XGen toolset with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

See the new features in the free update to the unusual 3D concept sketching and kitbashing software.

Cost of the real-time gaseous fluid simulator down 15-20% for anyone earning under $1 million per year.

Free grading and editing software is now 'up to 3x' faster on Macs with Apple's new M1 processors.

Boris FX's roto and paint software gets new color correction and grading features. Now available as a plugin for Nuke and After Effects.

Still available in current builds for a 'short time', but users are advised to switch to the Substance apps.

Image editing and digital painting app gets new options for image warping and sky replacement. Experimental beta builds due soon.

Native iPad edition of Photoshop gets the Healing Brush and Magic Wand from the desktop edition.

Free update to the UV unwrapping tool adds neat UV packing system and Projection unwrapping mode.

Redshift 3.0.51 update streamlines the GPU renderer's user interface. Blender plugin gets support for OSL shaders and UDIM textures.

New $450 cellphone-sized 6GB GPU is Nvidia's smallest and cheapest Ampere workstation card. Check out its key technical specs.

Just one of a new round of updates to Nvidia's collaboration platform to be announced at Siggraph 2021.

Maya's multiphysics plugin now lets you adjust properties interactively, and see the results in real time.