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Check out the changes to the intuitive NURBS modeler, including a revamped interface, and a new Section Analysis command.

Wednesday, February 26th, 2025

Check out the new features in the 3D capture software, including path tracing in the 3D View and support for HP's Z Captis scanner.

Friday, February 21st, 2025

[Sponsored] Online render farm Forrender argues that traditional workflows provide control and scalability that new AI tools cannot.

Tuesday, February 18th, 2025

VFX artist Robert Rioux's handy add-ons streamline the process of managing lights and render layers within complex production scenes.

Tuesday, February 11th, 2025

Discover how NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs performed in CG software like 3ds Max, Arnold, Blender, Maya, UE5 and V-Ray in our early tests.

Friday, February 7th, 2025

Master industry-standard workflows for sculpting and texturing AAA game characters with The Gnomon Workshop's two-part tutorial series.

Tuesday, February 4th, 2025

See breakdowns of five key movies, TV series, cinematics and animated shorts created in V-Ray from Chaos's latest showreel.

Monday, February 3rd, 2025

Destruction plugin for games and VFX gets a new Edge Fracture Tool, and improvements to clustering and simulation performance.

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

Substance 3D Texturing and Substance 3D Collection plans now include unlimited access to 19,000+ materials, 3D models and HDRIs.

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

Update to Epic Games' free app provides more control over scans, with the option to create 1-million-poly models with 8K textures.

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

Maya animation toolkit for VFX and games gets new tools developed for Red9's character rigging work on the latest Sonic movie.

Tuesday, January 28th, 2025

The EmberGen dev's new app will be a 'better way to create the majority of assets' for VFX in games. Here's what we know about it so far.

Monday, January 27th, 2025

Next major update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator to feature sparse sims, simulation retiming, USD support and a macOS edition.

Monday, January 27th, 2025