Chaos releases Vantage 2.2
Real-time renderer for exploring large V-Ray scenes gets better hair and fur rendering, better denoising and upscaling, new firefly filter.
Saturday, December 9th, 2023
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How new AI workflows helped create indie VFX short BYE-BYE
VFX artist Freddy Chávez Olmos reveals how generative AI and Nuke's CopyCat toolset created digital make-up for his horror short.
Friday, December 8th, 2023
Chaos Czech releases Corona 11 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D
Check out the new features in the production renderer, including updates to Chaos Scatter, and support for Open Image Denoise 2.
Friday, December 8th, 2023
Left Angle releases Autograph 2023.11
'Biggest release yet' of the next-gen tool for motion design and VFX adds new options for working with vector shapes, text and audio.
Thursday, December 7th, 2023
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio live link for Unreal Engine
New plugin lets visualization artists use lighting design tool HDR Light Studio for more precise control over models being rendered in UE5.
Thursday, December 7th, 2023
Get Epic Games' free Pose Driver Connect for Maya and UE5
Handy free tool transfers secondary animation set-ups authored in Maya to MetaHumans and other characters in Unreal Engine.
Thursday, December 7th, 2023
Reallusion ships iClone 8.4 and Character Creator 4.4
Major update to iClone adds a complete crowd simulation system to the real-time animation software. See all the new features here.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.5
Update overhauls the VR sculpting software's surfacing toolset, and adds initial support for PBR materials and image-based lighting.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
Adobe releases After Effects 24.1
Significant update moves native 3D file import and the Advanced 3D renderer out of beta and into the stable release of the software.
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
Tutorial: Creating Tire Smoke FX in Houdini
Discover how to use Houdini's sparse Pyro solver in production with The Gnomon Workshop's essential tutorial.
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
Foundry releases Mari 7.0
3D texture painting software gets new Vulkan-based geometry map baking system, and more procedural texturing nodes
Monday, December 4th, 2023
Godot 4.2 ships: check out 5 key features for CG artists
Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source game engine, including updates to rendering, lightmaps and GPU particles.
Friday, December 1st, 2023
Serif releases Affinity Photo 2.3
Check out the new features in the latest free update to the general-purpose image-editing software.
Thursday, November 30th, 2023