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Nick Hiatt

Master vital 2D and 3D techniques with new Gnomon tutorial Creating 360° Concept Art for Production.

Friday, November 30th, 2018

Download detailed modular parts designed for concepting Gothic cathedrals. OBJ, FBX, Maya format.

Monday, September 25th, 2017

Star Wars matte painter Nick Hiatt shares his secrets at a free event at Gnomon's LA campus this Saturday. Watch free online.

Tuesday, July 5th, 2016

The matte painter on Oblivion and Thor: The Dark World faces our barrage of tech and career questions.

Friday, December 13th, 2013

Long-awaited new edition of V-Ray integrates the production renderer natively in Blender. Check out its features, its limitations, and its price.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

Get three 3D scanned mountains from the neat new asset library for kitbashing environments for VFX and concept art. Commercial use.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

Promising free app combines the ease of layer-based workflows with the power of a node graph. More bitmap editing tools planned, too.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

Updated: free Blender-based tool generates 3D interiors, from rooms to entire houses. Check out its new Infinigen-Sim toolset.

Monday, June 30th, 2025

Discover how the video for the Grammy-nominated track was created with KeenTools' FaceBuilder and FaceTracker for Nuke.

Monday, June 30th, 2025

New app automatically groups related assets for one-click import into DCC apps like Blender. Support for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D due.

Sunday, June 29th, 2025