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light trail

Check out the new features in the real-time lighting design tool, including the option to LightPaint the sun into the sky.

Tuesday, November 4th, 2025

Big update to the UE5 product and portfolio rendering plugin also lets you generate virtual scan data for use in 3D Gaussian Splatting apps.

Tuesday, October 14th, 2025

Online library of effects plugins gets new Quantum tool for light trails, plus better layer blending, glow and chromatic aberration.

Wednesday, August 19th, 2020

Updated, now shipping. Free After Effects plugin creates energy FX and light trails, including round 3D text.

Sunday, March 6th, 2016

[Sponsored] The open-source toolkit helped the VFX tools developer harness the power of AMD GPUs in its Emmy award-winning plugins.

Wednesday, November 5th, 2025

Check out the new features in the real-time lighting design tool, including the option to LightPaint the sun into the sky.

Tuesday, November 4th, 2025

Neat add-on lets you add animated crowds to 3D scenes - including by giving characters Sims-style needs to eat, sleep and use the toilet.

Monday, November 3rd, 2025

Check out the changes to the VFX plugins for compositing and video editing apps, including AI masking tools and revamped chromakeying.

Monday, November 3rd, 2025

New mocap solution for iClone users integrates directly into the animation app, extracting full-body and hand motion from source video.

Friday, October 31st, 2025

Check out two interesting new AI-based technologies for selecting - and magically removing all trace of - objects in images.

Friday, October 31st, 2025