OLM Digital ships OLM Blur, Radial Blur and Directional Blur
Download the Japanese studio's neat new free After Effects plugins tailored to 2D animation work.
Thursday, November 9th, 2017
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SideFX releases Houdini 16.5
Video: see Houdini's upcoming retopology and facial autorigging tools, and a lot of neat new fluid, crowd and hair simulation features.
Tuesday, November 7th, 2017
Autodesk ships SketchBook 4.0 for iOS and Android
Updated with new Android version: Sketching app gets support for 100 megapixel images, predictive stroke system.
Tuesday, November 7th, 2017
innoBright ships Altus 1.9
Standalone render denoising tool gets streamlined full-screen GUI. CUDA version dropped in favour of 'faster, more reliable' OpenCL.
Friday, November 3rd, 2017
Discover how Disney artist Kevin Hudson created 'Weeds'
Explore the making of an indie short created with Disney tech at Gnomon's free event next week. Watch free online.
Friday, November 3rd, 2017
Serif ships Affinity Photo 1.6 and Affinity Designer 1.6
New versions of the image editing and vector design apps come with free bonus resources worth $200+.
Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
Reallusion ships PopcornFX iClone particle plugin
Real-time animation tool gets particle add-on based on tech for Substance Painter particle brushes.
Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
Shotgun Software releases Shotgun 7.5
Production tracking system gets new options for grouping and tagging projects, support for two-factor authentication.
Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
Master environment art with Gnomon's new training videos
Two detailed new video tutorials set out current environment design workflows for VFX and games.
Monday, October 30th, 2017
IDV ships SpeedTree Cinema 8
Update to the tree-generation tool adds PBR support; new modelling, animation and export options. Price of a perpetual licence down $500.
Thursday, October 26th, 2017
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.18
Game engine gets support for Google's ARCore AR system, better lightmapping and media playback.
Thursday, October 26th, 2017
See how the epic Shadow of War trailer was created
See director Neil Huxley and MPC's Victoria Osborn discuss their work at Gnomon in LA this Thursday. Watch free online.
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
Nukeygara ships Akeytsu 1.0
Now shipping: innovative new tool aims to rethink rigging and animation for artists, not engineers. Check out the feature set here.
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017