Tutorial: Art Direction for Film: Creature Design & Development
Master professional creature design workflows in ZBrush, Maya and Unreal Engine 5 with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.
Sunday, December 10th, 2023
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Sunday, December 10th, 2023
Chaos releases Vantage 2.2
Real-time renderer for exploring large V-Ray scenes gets better hair and fur rendering, better denoising and upscaling, new firefly filter.
Saturday, December 9th, 2023
How new AI workflows helped create indie VFX short BYE-BYE
VFX artist Freddy Chávez Olmos reveals how generative AI and Nuke's CopyCat toolset created digital make-up for his horror short.
Friday, December 8th, 2023
Left Angle releases Autograph 2023.11
'Biggest release yet' of the next-gen tool for motion design and VFX adds new options for working with vector shapes, text and audio.
Thursday, December 7th, 2023
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio live link for Unreal Engine
New plugin lets visualization artists use lighting design tool HDR Light Studio for more precise control over models being rendered in UE5.
Thursday, December 7th, 2023
Get Epic Games' free Pose Driver Connect for Maya and UE5
Handy free tool transfers secondary animation set-ups authored in Maya to MetaHumans and other characters in Unreal Engine.
Thursday, December 7th, 2023
Reallusion ships iClone 8.4 and Character Creator 4.4
Major update to iClone adds a complete crowd simulation system to the real-time animation software. See all the new features here.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
Adobe releases After Effects 24.1
Significant update moves native 3D file import and the Advanced 3D renderer out of beta and into the stable release of the software.
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
Tutorial: Creating Tire Smoke FX in Houdini
Discover how to use Houdini's sparse Pyro solver in production with The Gnomon Workshop's essential tutorial.
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
Foundry releases Mari 7.0
3D texture painting software gets new Vulkan-based geometry map baking system, and more procedural texturing nodes
Monday, December 4th, 2023
Chaos ships V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max Update 2
Sizeable update to the production renderer adds MaterialX support, new Enscape bridge, and updates to V-Ray GPU and Chaos Scatter.
Thursday, November 30th, 2023
LightWave Digital releases LightWave 2023
Veteran 3D animation software gets its first update in over three years, following a change of owner in April. Check out its new features here.
Thursday, November 30th, 2023