Master Houdini Terrain Techniques
Discover how to use Houdini's powerful terrain-generation tools with Gnomon's detailed tutorial.
Friday, March 29th, 2019
Latest News
Foundry ships Mari 4.5
Big update to 3D texture painting software adds entire new material system for roughing out the look of assets, plus new Arnold shader.
Friday, March 29th, 2019
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.13 for 3ds Max and Maya
Fluid simulation tools get support for VDB particle caches. FLIP liquid simulations now 'up to 2x' faster.
Thursday, March 28th, 2019
Autodesk unveils 3ds Max roadmap for future updates
Proposed features include new procedural layout tools, animation retargeting, automated retopology.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2020
New update adds OSL-based toon shading and built-in greenscreen keying, and makes viewport animation playback up to 2x faster.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 13.0
Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Otoy reveals OctaneRender 2019 product roadmap
See the updated feature lists for versions 2019.1 and 2019.2 of the GPU renderer. First preview of 2019.1 available now.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Reallusion previews Unreal iClone Live Link
New plugin will let users stream animation from iClone to Unreal Engine for rendering in real time.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 1903
3D tracking software gets new 'ViewShift' system for object removal and combining split takes.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Adobe and Moleskine launch new Paper Tablet for pro artists
Creative Cloud Connected 'smart notebook' can send pen-on-paper sketches to Illustrator as editable vector strokes.
Monday, March 25th, 2019
Erik Lehmann releases Mesh Toolkit for Maya
VFX TD's Python script extends Maya's mesh manipulation tools and adds new layout features.
Monday, March 25th, 2019
Get 380 free PBR texture sets from cgbookcase.com
Download texture maps of natural and man-made materials at up to 4K resolution under a CC0 licence.
Sunday, March 24th, 2019
Master SynthEyes tracking for production
Deadpool artist Kevin Bolivar's new Gnomon tutorial demystifies object and camera tracking for VFX work.
Friday, March 22nd, 2019