vfx

Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.3

Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new Texture Generators to add procedural noise to materials. Perpetual licenses discontinued.

Friday, January 26th, 2024

InstaMAT Studio is now available

Promising new app combines 3D texture painting, node-based material authoring and AI features. Free if you earn under $100k/year.

Thursday, January 25th, 2024

JangaFX releases EmberGen 1.1

See what's new in this big update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator, like the option to parent emitters to bones in characters.

Wednesday, January 24th, 2024

Ynput releases Ayon 1.0

Open-source pipeline for VFX and animation work is now production-ready - and available in the cloud as well as to install locally for free.

Thursday, January 18th, 2024

Maxon releases Red Giant 2024.1

See the new features in the suite of effects plugins, including Magic Bullet 2024.1, Trapcode 2024.1, Universe 2024.1 and VFX 2024.1.

Thursday, January 18th, 2024

Sneak peek: Cascadeur for mobile

Check out Nekki's preview video of the phone and tablet edition of its AI-assisted character animation software, due in beta later this year.

Thursday, January 18th, 2024