Foundry ships Modo 11.2

Videos: See the new Principled BRDF shader and procedural modelling tools in action. Lots of UV workflow improvements, too.

Wednesday, November 8th, 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

Download Eisko's free rigged model of a human head

Updated: Get this photorealistic female head based on scan data. Now rigged and ready to animate.

Wednesday, November 1st, 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

IKinema releases Action 5.0 for Maya

Update to mocap solving plugin aims to let users stream, retarget and clean data in Maya in real time.

Friday, October 27th, 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

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

Check out the new features in Blender 2.79

Now officially released. New denoise system and PBR shader in Cycles, plus some great add-ons.

Wednesday, September 13th, 2017

Get Creating First-Person Shooter Animations for Games

Master the skills to work on a AAA shooter with Call of Duty veteran Bill Buckley's new Gnomon tutorial.

Monday, September 4th, 2017

Get Unity's Photogrammetry Workflow ebook for free

Master best practices for capturing real-time assets for games with this detailed, practical 96-page guide.

Sunday, August 13th, 2017

Nurulize unveils Atom View and Nu Design

Amazing new VR toolset lets artists stream complex VFX assets into game engines via point clouds.

Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

Watch the best CG shorts from Siggraph 2017

Watch highlights of 15 of the year's best animated and VFX shorts, with accompanying tech breakdowns.

Wednesday, July 26th, 2017

Autodesk ceases sales of Gameware middleware

Scaleform, Navigation, Beast and HumanIK sales stopped on 12 July. Existing users get final source code of some tools.

Wednesday, July 19th, 2017