Pixar ships RenderMan 22.5
Update adds support for live displacement editing, SIMD acceleration for OSL. Houdini integration "completely rewritten".
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
Free Resources
See the free Artists of Blur show at the Gnomon Gallery
See the personal artwork of 15 artists from the legendary CG facility at a new free exhibition at the Hollywood gallery.
Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.12 for 3ds Max and Blender
Tool for converting 3D scenes into interactive web apps gets support for WebGL 2.0, better anti-aliasing.
Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
Check out free Nuke deep compositing toolkit DeepC
Handy set of open-source Nuke plugins makes deep compositing more accessible to smaller studios.
Monday, May 6th, 2019
Free tool KumoWorks turns sketches into rendered clouds
Turn your crude scribbles into gorgeously detailed clouds with this neat Windows and macOS app.
Monday, May 6th, 2019
Get free plugins from iClone's new online marketplace
Download seven free add-ons for the character animation software, from utility tools to rigging systems.
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
Isotropix adds GPU ray tracing in Clarisse iFX 4.0 SP2
It's limited to the 3D viewport, not final output, but it can result in a render speed boost of 'up to 100x'.
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Discover how to make an indie short with over 200 VFX shots
Director Chris Staehler reveals how he created award-winning sci-fi film The Beacon at Gnomon next week. Watch free online.
Friday, April 19th, 2019
Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.22
Real-time visualisation platform gets hardware-accelerated ray tracing, option to import simple 3ds Max animations.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
Unity 2019.1 ships
Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
InnoBright ships Altus Studio 2.4 and Altus ServerPro 2.4
Updated: Standalone render denoising tools get new integration plugins for Houdini and Clarisse.
Monday, April 15th, 2019
Download 24 free terrain assets and 17 free tree models
Get high-quality free 3D landscape assets from the team behind student movie Alter '49. CC0 licence.
Sunday, April 14th, 2019
Discover how CoSA VFX created Lucifer's wings
See key artists break down their CG work on the drama at Gnomon's Hollywood campus next week. Watch free online.
Saturday, April 13th, 2019