Alexandra Institute releases Elementacular 1.5
Maya cloud-creation plugin gets OpenVDB export for rendering in Arnold, V-Ray and RenderMan.
Monday, December 19th, 2016
Graphine releases Granite SDK 4.0
Games texture-streaming system gets mipmap streaming, better workflow with version control tools.
Monday, December 19th, 2016
See the speaker line-up for Gnomon Live Australia 2017
See top CG artists including Neville Page and Josh Herman at the Melbourne and Sydney-based festival next April.
Sunday, December 18th, 2016
Gnomon ships essential guide to Storyboarding Techniques
10-hour tutorial from Falling Skies artist Fred Gago sets out key skills for storyboarding in Photoshop.
Saturday, December 17th, 2016
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 5.4
Real-time lighting design tool adds new ways to position area lights or virtual lights within HDRI maps.
Friday, December 16th, 2016
LAUBLab releases V-RayforC4D 3.4
Huge update moves Cinema 4D edition of renderer to same core technology as the 3ds Max edition.
Friday, December 16th, 2016
The Foundry ships Mari 3.2
Videos: Update to texture-painting tool makes the node graph more intuitive to use, adds new non-destructive Bake Point node.
Friday, December 16th, 2016
Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 5.6
Texture-creation app gets eight new filters for blending and editing 3D scanned real-world materials.
Friday, December 16th, 2016
Unity Technologies releases Unity 5.6 and EditorVR in beta
Sizeable update to the game engine now available in beta, along with its new VR editing toolset.
Thursday, December 15th, 2016
Get Allan McKay's new free 18-hour VFX training course
Create a complete reverse-gravity destruction FX shot in 3ds Max and Nuke. Includes source footage and project files.
Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 12.5.4
Free update to grading app adds Touch Bar support on MacBook Pros; improves HDR workflow.
Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
Discover how Blur created its amazing Titanfall 2 trailer
See the studio's key staff reveal their workflow at a free event at Gnomon's LA campus this Saturday. Watch free online.
Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
Dassault Systèmes acquires Next Limit Dynamics
CAD firm buys division of Next Limit behind its XFlow fluid dynamics software. RealFlow unaffected.
Monday, December 12th, 2016