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Check out games artist Vlad Hirourk's streamlined new Blender add-on for Substance-style layer-based texture painting.

Thursday, June 6th, 2024

Free add-on lets users pose CC characters from Reallusion's Character Creator inside UE5 using the MetaHuman interface.

Thursday, May 30th, 2024

Veteran tool for retopologizing high-res sculpts and 3D scans for use in games and VFX is now available for free.

Sunday, May 19th, 2024

Get the free edition of the 3ds Max scene organizer described as 'Scene States on steroids'. Licensed for commercial use.

Sunday, May 19th, 2024

Find out how to use SideFX's experimental Houdini toolset for creating large-scale natural environments for games and VFX.

Sunday, May 12th, 2024

Final versions of the now-discontinued digital nature tools are available free for commercial use. Discover their features here.

Friday, May 10th, 2024

New app makes the automated UV packing tech behind 3d-io's popular UV-Packer plugins available to users of any DCC software.

Wednesday, May 8th, 2024

E-on software's digital nature tools are now available as free perpetual licenses, but development has been discontinued. Read our FAQs here.

Wednesday, May 8th, 2024

Check out self-taught animator SouthernShotty's inspirational animation breakdown for his 13-minute, one-person Blender short.

Monday, April 22nd, 2024

Free tool to prevent generative AI models from learning artists' personal styles from online images is now faster and more robust.

Monday, April 15th, 2024

Create professional-quality turntable renders of your 3D models for your portfolio with VFX artist Cristian Spagnuolo's handy Maya template.

Sunday, April 7th, 2024

Handy free web app lets creature designers and animators manipulate real-world animal skeletons in 3D, and even see them in motion.

Sunday, April 7th, 2024

Open-source framework should help devs write plugins to send files between Substance 3D apps and tools like Blender and Maya.

Friday, April 5th, 2024