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Get Autodesk's handy free set of Maya add-ons, now with real-time Boolean modelling tool Speed Cut.

Thursday, May 20th, 2021

Free non-commercial edition of ZBrush gets new sculpting brushes and now renders turntable movies.

Wednesday, May 19th, 2021

Promising art-directable Cinema 4D terrain-generation plugin was just five months old when the X-Particles creators snapped it up.

Tuesday, May 18th, 2021

Updated: See what's new in Build 6 of the GPU-based alternative to Houdini's own Sparse Pyro solver.

Tuesday, May 18th, 2021

Big update to the look dev and rendering tool adds USD exporter, Arnold-compatible material and intuitive new lighting workflows.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2021

New Gnomon Workshop tutorials set out key workflows for sketching and colouring creature concepts.

Monday, May 3rd, 2021

Top online portfolio service will stay open to non-games artists and Unreal Engine users. Sales fees on ArtStation Marketplace reduced.

Sunday, May 2nd, 2021

New service lets users set up a complete production studio in the cloud. See the price, specs and supported software.

Thursday, April 29th, 2021

AWS's popular renderfarm manager now runs in Licence Free Mode on farms with 10 Render Workers.

Thursday, April 29th, 2021

See amazing new motion graphics and VFX created with Cinema 4D and Redshift, then follow our links to breakdowns of the key projects.

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021

Master facial modelling for animation with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Sunday, April 25th, 2021

Big update to Blender's production renderer will reduce render times 'up to 7x' on current Nvidia GPUs.

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

Check out the major features coming up in the open-source 3D software in this year's Blender 2.93 and Blender 3.0 releases.

Friday, April 23rd, 2021