ActionVFX halves price of all stock effects clips

VFX library's 2K practical effects clips now cost as little as $5; 4K to 6K fire and smoke cost $15-20.

Tuesday, May 1st, 2018

Escape Motions releases Rebelle 3

Now shipping. Check out all the new features in this varied update to the fluid flow-based paint tool.

Tuesday, May 1st, 2018

Sketchfab's models of the month: April 2018

See the month's best real-time 3D models, from canine astronauts to stellar Horizon Zero Dawn fan art.

Tuesday, May 1st, 2018

Foundry unveils Athera, its new cloud-based VFX platform

Updated: new service aims to let users run a full VFX studio via a web browser. Pricing now revealed.

Monday, April 30th, 2018

GIMP team ships GIMP 2.10

Landmark stable build of the open source image editor supports 32-bit linear workflow, adds new warping and foreground selection tools.

Sunday, April 29th, 2018

Get handy free VFX pipeline management tool Prism

Open-source app handles common asset and render management tasks. Integrates with Blender, Max, Maya, Houdini, Nuke.

Sunday, April 29th, 2018

Gnomon ships 3D Scan and Retopology for Production

New nine-hour tutorial provides a detailed guide to generating animatable character meshes via photogrammetry.

Friday, April 27th, 2018

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.7 for Nuke

Nuke edition of V-Ray gets support for progressive rendering and the V-Ray hair shader and sampler.

Friday, April 27th, 2018

Vicon ships Shōgun 1.2

Now available: optical mocap firm's utility software gets SDI support, custom skeleton solving, plus live link to stream data directly to UE4.

Thursday, April 26th, 2018

Red Giant releases Trapcode Suite 14.1 for After Effects

Free update to effects plugins GPU-accelerates Trapcode Form; adds DoF and IBL in Trapcode Mir.

Monday, April 23rd, 2018

See hotly tipped short 'One Small Step' at Gnomon in May

Discover how ex-Disney artists TAIKO Studios created their debut short at a free event at the school's LA campus.

Thursday, April 19th, 2018

See Hero, a steampunk 2D short made entirely in Blender

Action-packed animated short demonstrates the potential of Blender 2.8's Grease Pencil tools.

Wednesday, April 18th, 2018

Quadspinner ships Gaea 2480

Promising landscape generation tool gets new scale controls for erosion, better user control over soil, rain and snow distribution.

Wednesday, April 18th, 2018