Create perfect topology for animated characters

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create 3D characters with animation-friendly, production-ready topology in Maya and ZBrush.

Saturday, November 16th, 2024

Ephere releases Ornatrix 3 for Cinema 4D

Hair and fur plugin gets new tools for 'grafting' procedural hair grooms onto a character, and 'boxing' operators into single modifiers.

Friday, November 15th, 2024

Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max

Latest major update to the renderer adds support for 3D Gaussian Splatting and luminaires, and updates V-Ray GPU and the VFB.

Thursday, October 31st, 2024

Check out Wonder Studio's new Wonder Animation feature

New video-to-3D-scene system 'brings artists closer to producing animated films' as well as VFX with the AI online film-making platform.

Thursday, October 31st, 2024

10 subtle tricks to improve your character animation

Discover 10 things you can do today to improve your character animation work with DreamWorks animator Adrien Liv's expert tips.

Tuesday, October 29th, 2024

Chaos releases Vantage 2.6

Real-time ray tracing renderer for large V-Ray scenes gets support for the V-Ray Clipper and a new Water Surface object.

Saturday, October 26th, 2024

CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 2024.2

Check out the new features in the 3D clothing design software, including improvements to its real-time simulation toolset.

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024

Creating a Character Bust: From Ideation to Final Render

Create a portfolio-worthy 3D character with Naughty Dog Senior Character Artist Colleen Larson's tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.

Sunday, October 20th, 2024

Autodesk announces updates to Flow at Autodesk University

New Flow Graph Engine API and Flow Animating in Context will help connect Autodesk's cloud platform to desktop apps like Maya.

Tuesday, October 15th, 2024

DeepMotion rolls out AI text-to-animation service SayMotion 2.4

Browser-based text-to-animation generative AI tool can now be used to create seamless animation cycles, and to retarget animation.

Saturday, October 12th, 2024

Tutorial: Cinematic Lighting Shot Production

Master professional CG lighting workflows in Maya, Arnold, Katana and Nuke with The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.

Sunday, October 6th, 2024

MetaTailor 2.0 is out

Check out the new features in the promising tool for fitting 3D clothing to humanoid avatars, including a new real-time cloth physics system.

Thursday, October 3rd, 2024

Free Nuke plugin pScatter 'breaks up your perfect CG renders'

Handy add-on uses position data to add imperfections to renders from 3D applications like Blender, Houdini and Maya within Nuke.

Sunday, September 29th, 2024