Tutorial: Creating a Realistic Humanoid 3D Character
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals VFX industry workflows for creating characters in ZBrush, Maya and Mari.
Wednesday, December 14th, 2022
Free Resources
Autodesk open-sources Bifrost USD
Toolset for authoring USD scenes with the graph editor from Maya's Bifrost plugin now free under an Apache 2.0 licence.
Monday, December 12th, 2022
Boris FX releases Silhouette 2022.5
Roto and paint tool gets support for industry-standard ID matte generation system Cryptomatte.
Saturday, December 10th, 2022
Discover 5 key features for CG artists in Unity 2022.2
See the key changes to the game engine, like the new water system and dynamic volumetric clouds.
Friday, December 9th, 2022
Reallusion ships AccuRig 1.1
Free tool automatically generates body and finger rigs for humanoid 3D characters. Check out its new time-saving symmetry options.
Friday, December 9th, 2022
5 key features in Blender 3.4
Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software: from path guiding in Cycles to a hidden bonus for motion designers.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Foundry releases Nuke 14.0
Major update to the compositing software adds complete new USD-based 3D system, plus free library of Nuke machine learning models.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Tutorial: Sculpting Miniatures for Boardgames Using ZBrush
Turn 2D concepts into printable 3D sculpts with The Gnomon Workshop's essential new tutorial.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
After Effects 23.1 announced
Compatibility update to the compositing software adds support for Cinema 4D 2023, plus 'several stability and performance fixes'.
Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
Clara.io is closing down
Access to the pioneering browser-based 3D modelling and rendering tool and its library of 500,000 free 3D models to end on 31 December.
Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
CG industry news round-up: November 2022
Amazon gets into crowd simulation, Autodesk buys into volumetric video, and Sketchfab goes 18+ only.
Monday, December 5th, 2022
Foundry acquires Peregrine Labs' Bokeh plugin for Nuke
$99/year lens simulation plugin will be integrated into the compositing app for free - including Nuke Indie.
Friday, December 2nd, 2022
Imbalance releases Ragdoll Dynamics 3.0 for Maya
Ace real-time physics tool now lets you pose characters simply by pulling them around like puppets.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022