Tutorial: design and model a creature with scales
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to sculpt a production-ready creature in ZBrush and Maya.
Saturday, July 16th, 2022
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Download BtoA: the free Arnold plugin for Blender
Community-made plugin lets you render Blender animations, VFX and visualisations in Autodesk's Arnold renderer.
Friday, July 15th, 2022
iToo Software releases Forest Pack 7.4.3 for 3ds Max
Scattering plugin gets support for V-Ray 6, plus new options for replacing scene objects by name.
Thursday, July 14th, 2022
This neat free plugin lets you import OpenVDBs into UE5
Eidos-Montréal's UnrealVDB lets users view VDB files inside Unreal Engine and render them with its path tracer.
Wednesday, July 13th, 2022
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2022.2
Real-time visualisation software gets new HDRI backdrop system, and physics-based layout tools.
Wednesday, July 13th, 2022
Sneak peek: EmberGen 1.0
Check out the new features coming to the real-time fluid simulator's GPU particle system, including motion trails and 'force masking'.
Tuesday, July 12th, 2022
Preview: Blender's new hair tools and viewport compositor
Check out the curve-based hair system due in Blender 3.3, and the upcoming real-time compositor.
Monday, July 11th, 2022
Free feather and hair nodes for Substance 3D Designer
Neat add-ons generate textures for use inside game engines like UE5, complete with flow and ID maps.
Monday, July 11th, 2022
Tutorial: Designing a Transforming Super Mecha
Master 2D concept design with Transformers: Cyberverse artist Léo Chiola's Gnomon Workshop tutorial.
Saturday, July 9th, 2022
AqMesher for 3ds Max gets new liquid solver
OpenVDB-based meshing plugin gets new GPU-accelerated, network-capable FLIP/PIC solver.
Friday, July 8th, 2022
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max
Latest update makes the renderer subscription-only, but licences work across 8 other host applications.
Thursday, July 7th, 2022
Get FluidNinja VFX Tools for Unreal Engine for free
Popular add-on for baking fluid simulations to flipbooks and flowmaps in UE4 and UE5 is free during July 2022.
Wednesday, July 6th, 2022
Kinetix releases Kinetix 1.5
Check out the new features in the browser-based tool for turning video footage into 3D animation. You can use it for free in beta.
Tuesday, July 5th, 2022