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MetaTailor adds engine bridges and less FBX fatigue

MetaTailor 2.5 introduces official engine bridges and workflow updates for realtime character clothing pipelines.

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BlendShape Monitor puts Maya rigs under a heat lamp

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Frame Ref tidies your reference mess

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Animate re-animated

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glTF learns to splat without losing the plot

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Unreal Reality: Building A New Specimen

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Adobe pulls the plug on Animate at last

Adobe has confirmed the end of life of Adobe Animate, setting clear dates for sales, access, and support wind-down.

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Infinity Hotel: Endless Rooms, Endless Renders

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Blender turns meshes into sponges. Rubber duck not included

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Resolume adds 10 bit colour and speed fixes

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RGB sliders now judge your colour skills

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GGro grows strange things in Houdini, for free

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Sky: Geometry Nodes-Based Volumetric Cloud and Atmosphere System for Blender

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Storm HydroFX ships water without the node graph

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