Watch Enemies, Unity's gorgeous new tech demo
Photorealistic two-minute real-time Unity short showcases new skin and hair simulation technologies.
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
skin shading
Master the essentials of lighting and look development
Recreate realistic real-world materials in Maya and Redshift with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.
Monday, March 15th, 2021
Reallusion previews SkinGen
Neat new skin-generation toolset for Character Creator generates detailed human skin complete with pores, wrinkles, blemishes and hair.
Monday, June 1st, 2020
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.20
Artists get new Niagara modular VFX editor, new options for shading human skin, plus cinematic DoF.
Saturday, July 21st, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.14
Update adds contact shadows, new forward renderer aimed at VR work, built-in automated LOD generation.
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
Next Limit unveils Maxwell Render 3.1
VFX-friendly release to add support for OpenVDB, Mari's UDIM textures, improved skin rendering system.
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Artixels announces Escher plugin collection for Nuke
Updated: 'album' of lighting plugins provides production-ready shortcuts for complex tasks. Beta out now.
Saturday, September 29th, 2012