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Reallusion announced the 2026 Reallusion 3D Character Contest, offering a $45,000 prize pool, free 3-month access to the full ...

Blender is shaping modern creative pipelines as 3D animation software becomes faster and more specialized. In 2026, many tools deliver stronger viewport performance optimization, handling massive ...

Remember when creating realistic 3D models meant weeks of painstaking work by skilled artists? Well, Tencent just threw that playbook out the window with the latest 3.0 version of Hunyuan 3D, and ...

Pixiv, Japan’s online art community, is rolling out new software to create anime-style 3D models for Windows and Mac. Dubbed VRoid Studio, the character modeling software is for anime-style avatars ...

Whether you are looking for the right software to fuel your latest design project or picking the best engineering program for a company or class, here’s the best 3D modeling software — and what makes ...