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Character DNA

Base edition of Poly Hammer's Blender add-on for importing and exporting MetaHuman .dna files is now a free download.

Friday, July 17th, 2026

Poly Hammer's add-on creates Rigify rigs for MetaHuman characters imported into Blender, and retargets animation from UE5.

Wednesday, May 6th, 2026

Poly Hammer's Character DNA add-on lets you edit MetaHuman facial and body rigs inside Blender, including their RBF corrective poses.

Tuesday, March 31st, 2026

Base edition of Poly Hammer's Blender add-on for importing and exporting MetaHuman .dna files is now a free download.

Friday, July 17th, 2026

Check out the latest features in Houdini, from a complete new 3D Gaussian Splatting toolset to major updates to KineFX and Copernicus.

Thursday, July 16th, 2026

Parametric model based on real-world scan data generates realistic 3D heads and facial expressions. Free Blender add-on available.

Wednesday, July 15th, 2026

Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source 3D software, from cloth physics in Geometry Nodes to a big change to Cycles.

Tuesday, July 14th, 2026

Check out the new features in the free alternative to Substance 3D Designer, including a new Dynamic Sky Material. Now also on Steam.

Tuesday, July 14th, 2026

Check out the new features in the procedural city generation software, including new tools for creating street layouts, and a Python 3 API.

Monday, July 13th, 2026