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Promising free Blender add-on generates rigged 3D characters with skin materials and hair, suitable for games, animation or VFX work.

Monday, March 24th, 2025

Use the powerful Content Browser from the Unreal Engine 5 world-building tool free indefinitely. Comes with thousands of free 3D assets.

Sunday, March 23rd, 2025

Check out the key artist features in the next version of the game engine, including support for Variable Rate Shading and better DX12 ray tracing.

Thursday, March 20th, 2025

Add-on will let you send characters from Character Creator to MetaTailor with one-click, fit 3D clothing to them, then send them back to CC4.

Wednesday, March 19th, 2025

New series of pro workstation and laptop GPUs include the 'most powerful desktop GPU ever created'. See its key specs for CG work.

Wednesday, March 19th, 2025

Check out the key changes in the latest version of the open-source 3D app, including important updates to animation and the CPU compositor.

Tuesday, March 18th, 2025

Check out the new features in the 3D texture painting app, including an Auto-update system, and more path tools, filters and texture generators.

Monday, March 17th, 2025

Discover how to create a King Kong-style creature fight sequence with The Gnomon Workshop's new five-hour Maya masterclass.

Saturday, March 15th, 2025

AI-based service for VFX and animation gets rebranded as part of Autodesk's Flow cloud platform. Check out its latest features.

Friday, March 14th, 2025

Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool, including Runtime Virtual Texturing and an Advanced Water Shader.

Thursday, March 13th, 2025

You can download the set of 1,200+ meshes of buildings and props free from Epic Games' Fab marketplace - but you'll need to be quick about it.

Wednesday, March 12th, 2025

Animator Tal Minks' promising Maya plugin extracts hand animation from a standard webcam and bakes it to any five-fingered Maya character.

Monday, March 10th, 2025

Master professional asset development workflows for VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's advanced-level tutorial.

Sunday, March 9th, 2025