Unity discontinues the Ziva products
Unity ends sales of Maya tissue simulation plugin Ziva VFX, real-time toolset Ziva RT, and facial-rigging service Ziva Face Trainer.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
SpeedTree
Tutorial: Creating Environment Art for Digital Production
Master current studio workflows with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed six-hour guide to environment art.
Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
Tutorial: Creating Foliage for Videogames
Discover how to create custom SpeedTree trees and plants for games with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.
Wednesday, December 27th, 2023
Tutorial: Creating a Monolithic City in Unreal Engine 5
Create a large-scale city for VFX or cinematics work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.
Sunday, August 6th, 2023
Discover how to create games environments with SpeedTree
Check out new Gnomon Workshop tutorial Creating a Swamp Scene for Games with SpeedTree & Photogrammetry.
Thursday, June 29th, 2023
Discover how to create hi-res custom trees with SpeedTree
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create hero-quality assets with the tree authoring tool.
Sunday, February 20th, 2022
Unity acquires Ziva Dynamics
Buyout of leading character rigging and simulation tools developer strengthens Unity's portfolio of digital human and creature tech.
Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
Unity acquires Weta Digital for $1.6 billion
Firm aims to put Weta's legendary in-house VFX tools 'into the hands of millions of artists' worldwide.
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
Discover expert techniques for building 3D environments
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial provides time-saving tricks for Clarisse, Houdini and SpeedTree.
Friday, October 8th, 2021
Unity Technologies acquires SpeedTree developer IDV
Buyout to 'deepen integration' of IDV's tree-authoring technology with Unity, starting in Unity 2021.2.
Friday, July 23rd, 2021
Black Friday and winter 2020 deals for CG artists
Updated: Check out our list of great seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.
Monday, November 30th, 2020
Eye candy: the 2020 SpeedTree VFX reel
See the most luxuriant CG jungles created with SpeedTree Cinema, from The Lion King to Star Wars.
Friday, August 21st, 2020
Eye candy: the 2020 SpeedTree games reel
See gorgeous real-time work using the plant-generation tool, plus tech breakdowns from the key games.
Wednesday, May 27th, 2020