New Gnomon video: Multi Pass Rendering and Compositing
Master advanced workflows like deep compositing with Psyop veteran Robby Branham's detailed four-hour tutorial.
Sunday, March 19th, 2017
Free Resources
Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 11
VFX-friendly paint app gets new roto tools, updates to the Puppy Ray renderer. Price now under $50.
Friday, March 17th, 2017
YCDIVFX releases Offline Render 1.5 for Unity
Capture in-engine footage in 16-bit multilayer EXR format. Now supports forward rendering, 360-degree output.
Thursday, March 16th, 2017
Chaos Group releases Phoenix FD 3.0 for Maya
Now shipping: fluid simulator gets new FLIP solver for liquids, updated gaseous fluid solver, new forces.
Friday, March 10th, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3 for SketchUp
Update adds new UI, new library of 200 physically based materials, V-Ray Swarm distributed rendering.
Thursday, March 9th, 2017
Gnomon releases Creature Modeling for Production
Master organic and hard-surface modelling in ZBrush and Modo with this seven-hour guide from Guerilla Games' Ben Erdt.
Thursday, March 9th, 2017
Epic Games unveils new VR editing tools in Unreal Engine
In-VR mesh and animation editing tools now available as free public preview. Support for OpenSubdiv and USD also due.
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017
Blackmagic ships new control panels for DaVinci Resolve
Grading software gets two low-cost hardware control surfaces. Free version now available for Linux.
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.5 for Nuke
Nuke edition of the renderer gets support for volumetrics, render denoising, Adaptive Lights system.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
Unity Technologies unveils Unity 2017 product roadmap
Features to include new cinematics toolsets, a scriptable rendering pipeline, and a new C# job system.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
Download TextMesh Pro for Unity for free
$95 Unity Award-shortlisted replacement for the native UI text and text mesh tools now free to all.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
Eye candy: SideFX's 2017 Houdini games and VR reel
Two minutes of the best games work created in Houdini, from Uncharted 4 to amazing cinematics.
Sunday, February 26th, 2017
The Gnomon Workshop releases Introduction to Arnold
Master lighting and rendering in Arnold with this complete primer from The Mill's Robert Chapman.
Sunday, February 26th, 2017