Gnomon releases complete guide to CityEngine in VFX
Matthias Buehler's seven-hour video explores how to create digital film sets with Esri's powerful procedural city-generation tool.
Sunday, August 2nd, 2015
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10 tips for using Maya's XGen in production
Digital Domain's Stefano Giorgetti provides his tips for making best use of Maya's instancing system.
Thursday, June 4th, 2015
Esri ships CityEngine 2015.0
Procedural 3D city-generation tool gets enhanced real-time shadows, plus improvements to scene editor.
Thursday, May 7th, 2015
Sad Cat Software releases Bloom 1.0
The non-destructive, PSD-friendly 16-bit image editor formerly known as Ormr gets its official release.
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
Kinematic Lab ships Atom for 3ds Max
Clovis Gay's neat motion graphics plugin creates particle-based effects similar to After Effects' Plexus.
Monday, April 27th, 2015
Project Groomboy calls for beta testers
Intriguing procedural Maya grooming tool works with nHair, XGen, plus key hair plugins. Sign up to test it now.
Thursday, April 9th, 2015
Download 10 free Substance procedural materials
Get Arvin Villapando's new brick, rock and sidewalk materials, for use in Max, Maya, Modo, UDK or Unity.
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
cebas updates thinkingParticles 6
Updated: First 'Subscription Drop' extends volumeBreak node and new procedural spline modelling toolset.
Sunday, December 21st, 2014
IDV launches SpeedTree Modeler for Unity 5
Create unique trees complete with LoDs, collision primitives and wind forces for use with the Unity 5 beta.
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 1.0
Much-anticipated next-gen games texture-painting tool finally ships. Check out the key features here.
Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
Download free procedural tree models from Laubwerk
Get 144 3ds Max and C4D models showing four common species in different ages and seasonal states.
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
Cool tech demo: create clouds with Elementacular
Updated and now shipping: Turn any model into an editable, relightable cloud with this neat Maya plugin.
Wednesday, August 20th, 2014
Laubwerk overhauls procedural Plants Kits
Ultra-detailed plant models now support translucency. Use them natively in Max or C4D, or in other apps via Python.
Monday, July 14th, 2014