Eye candy: SideFX's 2017 Houdini games and VR reel
Two minutes of the best games work created in Houdini, from Uncharted 4 to amazing cinematics.
Sunday, February 26th, 2017
Free Resources
The Gnomon Workshop releases Introduction to Arnold
Master lighting and rendering in Arnold with this complete primer from The Mill's Robert Chapman.
Sunday, February 26th, 2017
Silicon Studio to release Xenko game engine commercially
Open source C# engine from firm behind Final Fantasy XV's render tech to go commercial in April.
Friday, February 24th, 2017
DGDM releases VPR for Redshift 2.10
Handy Maya plugin for streamlining look dev workflow can now control Redshift lens shaders from within the VPR window.
Friday, February 24th, 2017
World Machine gets first update in over a year
'I'm not dead, just doing R&D', explains developer in blog post on terrain generator's dev build 3014.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2017
Arseniy Korablev releases Polybrush 1.6
3D sketching tool gets real-time viewport with pencil shaded and realistic display modes, ground fog.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2017
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 2.5
Update to texture-painting tool adds brush opacity, LUT-based colour management, option to bake 8K textures.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017
Side Effects Software releases Houdini 16
Updated: 'Largest ever' Houdini update adds autorigging, more simulation tools, terrain system. Now shipping.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017
3d-io releases Exr-IO 1.02 for Photoshop
Updated: Handy free plugin lets PS load or save multi-layer EXR files. Now supports batch processing.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
Redshift devs release Redshift for Houdini
New integration plugin for the GPU renderer supports Houdini's native primitives, instancing and volumes.
Saturday, February 18th, 2017
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.15
Update improves texture streaming and tonemapping, adds support for Nintendo Switch and HDR displays.
Thursday, February 16th, 2017
Visit Gnomon's 2017 Student Show
Free exhibition of the best new student art work created at the leading CG school opens on Friday.
Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
How Feast's Patrick Osborne directed his first VR short
See the Oscar-winning director discuss the making of PEARL at Gnomon's LA campus on Thursday. Watch free onine.
Monday, February 13th, 2017