Tutorial: Large-Scale Cinematic Destruction in Houdini
Master professional procedural techniques for VFX and animation with The Gnomon Workshop's comprehensive Houdini tutorial.
Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
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Sculpt Tool lets you do digital sculpting inside 3ds Max
Games artist Mihail Lupu's neat $45 script lets you create or edit organic models directly inside Max.
Thursday, May 11th, 2023
Get free Cesium plugins for UE5, O3DE, Unity, Omniverse
Open-source geospatial data plugins create full-scale replicas of the Earth inside game engines.
Saturday, March 25th, 2023
Godot 4.0 ships
Discover five key features for CG artists in this major update to the open-source game engine, from Vulkan rendering to real-time GI.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
The Grove Release 11 is out
Check out the new features in F12's biologically accurate Blender-based tree generator, like the new Roots tool and breeze animation.
Friday, July 29th, 2022
Eye candy: SideFX's 2022 Houdini games reel
See the games Houdini was used on this year alongside clips of the custom tools used to create them.
Tuesday, July 12th, 2022
Free Cesium for Unreal plugin creates a virtual Earth in UE4
New open-source plugin streams real-world geospatial data into UE4 from platforms like Cesium ion.
Wednesday, March 31st, 2021
Chris West updates Terrain plugin for 3ds Max
Popular plugin turns online DEM data into 3D terrain inside 3ds Max - now to 30m resolution worldwide.
Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Wysilab ships Instant Terra 1.15
Check out the new features in the terrain generator, including new options for searching for and importing real-world terrain data.
Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26
Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.
Friday, December 4th, 2020
SideFX ships Houdini 18.5
Big update to the procedural 3D software adds KineFX character rigging toolset; updates to Solaris, Karma and the simulation tools.
Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
Wysilab wins Epic MegaGrant for Instant Terra
Money will help fund development of an Unreal Engine live link plugin for the terrain generation software.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
Master natural environment creation for visual effects
Create detailed environments in Houdini and Clarisse iFX with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Monday, July 27th, 2020