Master FACS Rigging for Facial Motion Capture

Create a FACS-based facial rig suitable for VFX or animation work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Maya tutorial.

Saturday, April 26th, 2025

Unity 6.1: discover 5 key features for CG artists

See the key features in the game engine and real-time renderer, from better 3D water to Variable Rate Shading and Deferred+ rendering.

Friday, April 25th, 2025

Adobe releases Photoshop 26.6

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including nifty new Select Details options in the AI-based Object Selection tool.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Chaos releases Corona 12 Update 2 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D

Update to the renderer adds over 3,100 Chaos Scans materials to the Cosmos library, and improves DoF and volumetric effects.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Get 260+ modular Wild West building assets for Unreal Engine

Get JustB Studios' 1850s Post Office Environment pack of 3D assets for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace. For commercial use.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Get VFX artist Thomas Marcos' free Blender clouds shader

Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

NVIDIA open-sources PhysX's GPU simulation code

Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

Hair Cinematic Tool 2.0 simplifies hair shading in Unreal Engine 5

Argentum Studio's in-house tool simplifies the process of lighting and rendering hair and fur in Unreal Engine 5.5. Free for a month.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

Tutorial: Creature Animation for Games

Discover how to animate run cycles, combat and death moves in Maya with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly tutorial.

Monday, April 21st, 2025

LightWave Digital releases LightWave 2025

Check out the new features in the 3D software, including viewport path tracing, a new Toon Filter, and new rigging and animation tools.

Friday, April 18th, 2025

Get the free version of ZibraVDB for Unreal Engine and Houdini

Updated: free version of the real-time volumetric effects tool for games and virtual production is now available for Houdini as well as Unreal Engine.

Friday, April 18th, 2025

See JangaFX's first demo of IlluGen, its app for in-game VFX

Check out the feature set of the much-anticipated tool for creating VFX assets for games, its workflow, its release date, and its likely price.

Thursday, April 17th, 2025

Autodesk releases Flame 2026

Check out the new features in the compositing and effects software, including OCIO support, a new Type tool and AI clip upscaling.

Thursday, April 17th, 2025