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Get over 100 species of grasses and flowers in FBX or Alembic format, or for use with the Gscatter Blender plugin. For commercial use.

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024

Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D app, from better baking to improvements to Cycles and the Sequencer.

Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

Discover the fundamental principles of character design with The Gnomon Workshop's new introductory tutorial.

Saturday, March 23rd, 2024

Popular plugin for creating 3D head models from source photos of an actor gets streamlined new one-click texturing workflow.

Thursday, March 21st, 2024

Download free, fully rigged human characters with Reallusion's animation-friendly CC3+ Base topology. For commercial use.

Wednesday, March 20th, 2024

Handy new free add-on turns curve-based Blender hair to faster-rendering geometry for use in games and real-time apps.

Monday, March 18th, 2024

Updated: 3D scanning app now lets users edit 3DGS scans and export them to DCC apps in OBJ format, on both iOS and Android.

Monday, March 11th, 2024

Check out the new features in the real-time lighting design software, including new shadow modes for the signature LightPaint system.

Tuesday, March 5th, 2024

Much-praised Ragdoll Dynamics physics system, used by top VFX and games studios, is now available for Blender as well as Maya.

Friday, March 1st, 2024

Get the new version of the free Blender plugin for importing and editing Substance .sbsar materials, now available for Blender 4.0.

Thursday, February 29th, 2024

Check out the latest features in the digital sculpting, 3D painting and retopology app, and its cut-down edition for texturing work.

Wednesday, February 28th, 2024

Chaos is working on the integration between its V-Ray renderer and the open-source 3D software 'right now', according to its latest livestream.

Tuesday, February 27th, 2024

Production renderer gets native support for the hardware-accelerated ray tracing technology in Apple's new M3 processors.

Thursday, February 22nd, 2024