Red Giant rolls out Universe 2.0
Library of add-ons for compositing apps gets good-looking new HUD-creation toolset, but free subscriptions axed.
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Free Resources
Laubwerk makes procedural plant kits available for Maya
1.0.20 update makes the render ready tree models compatible with Maya as well as 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Houdini.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
Esri ships CityEngine 2016.0
Powerful procedural city modelling software gets new Alembic exporter for use with visual effects pipelines.
Monday, June 27th, 2016
Next Limit releases RealFlow | Cinema 4D
Now shipping: New $795 edition of the fluid simulator is 'fully integrated' inside C4D, though it lacks some advanced tools.
Thursday, June 23rd, 2016
Eye candy: Unity's amazing photorealistic Adam demo
Updated: See the complete, near-six-minute short. Runs in real time on a single GeForce GTX 980.
Monday, June 20th, 2016
Unity revamps subscriptions in reply to user complaints
Updated: Unity Plus subscribers get option to turn off the splash screen; users of the free Personal edition can customise it.
Friday, June 17th, 2016
Gnomon ships Developing Storytelling Skills from Life
Illustrator April Connors' three-hour guide to figure drawing sets out essential skills for character and costume designers.
Thursday, June 16th, 2016
The Foundry releases Modo 10.1
Now shipping: Latest Modo 10 Series update adds cool procedural modelling system. Plays nicely with MeshFusion, too.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2016
AMD releases FireRender for 3ds Max
Updated: free OpenCL-based GPU-accelerated path tracing renderer now available in beta.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
Discover how Luma Pictures creates Marvel-ous VFX
The Ant-Man and Avengers veterans reveal their secrets at a free event at Gnomon's LA campus on Thursday. Watch free online.
Monday, June 13th, 2016
Discover how to create VR games in Unreal Engine
Come to Epic Games' free four-hour masterclass at Gnomon's Hollywood campus on Wednesday 15 June.
Friday, June 10th, 2016
Autodesk ships Stingray 1.3
Game engine gets new fur, cloth and clear coat shaders, plus support for texture streaming and Nvidia's APEX real-time cloth simulation system.
Thursday, June 9th, 2016
AXYZ design ships Anima 2
Major update rewrites 3ds Max and Cinema 4D crowd animation tool 'from scratch'; adds new WYSIWG editor and greater range of controls.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2016