Master grooming CG hair with Ornatrix for Maya
Create facial hair for an animatable 3D character with The Gnomon Workshop's introductory tutorial.
Saturday, September 11th, 2021
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Master creature grooming techniques in Houdini
Learn to style digital hair and fur with The Gnomon Workshop's guide to current VFX workflows.
Monday, August 9th, 2021
Weta Digital unveils WetaM
New cloud-based service will let VFX artists use 100 of Weta's Academy Award-winning in-house tools inside a custom build of Maya.
Thursday, June 17th, 2021
The 20 most popular Gnomon Workshop tutorials of 2020
Discover 20 video tutorials from the leading digital training firm that no CG artist can afford to miss.
Sunday, January 31st, 2021
The Gnomon Workshop ships Introduction to Maya 2020
Master modelling, animation, effects and rendering in Maya with this comprehensive tutorial series.
Saturday, November 14th, 2020
Master hair grooming with Yeti
Discover how to use the powerful Maya hair plugin in production with DreamWorks Animation hair lead Victor Javier Garza's full tutorial.
Friday, June 12th, 2020
Discover how to create a stylised female character
See DNEG's Crystal Bretz reveal her ZBrush, Maya & Mari workflows in Gnomon's detailed new tutorial.
Sunday, May 3rd, 2020
Check out Coiffure, a neat Maya add-on for real-time hair
Updated: Version 1.1 of TD Florian Croquet's tool for converting XGen hair to hair cards now works for feathers as well.
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2019
Watch the best tech breakdowns of 2019, as determined by 120,000 CG Channel Facebook followers.
Sunday, January 12th, 2020
Ephere ships Ornatrix C4D 1.0
New Cinema 4D edition of the popular hair, fur and feather simulation plugin works with both Arnold and Redshift out of the box.
Tuesday, January 7th, 2020
Download Maya hair plugin Shave and a Haircut 9.6 free
Get the hair and fur plugin and its Arnold, RenderMan and V-Ray shaders from Epic Games for free.
Thursday, October 24th, 2019
Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 3.5
Sizeable update to the Maya fur and feathers plugin adds support for Alembic and OpenColorIO, plus new volumetric hair guide model.
Wednesday, August 21st, 2019
Yeti fur plugin goes back on sale in the United States
Popular Maya plugin on sale to US studios again - and with a 15% discount until 31 July to celebrate.
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019