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

Character Creator gets new free MetaTailor plugin

Add-on lets you send characters from Character Creator to MetaTailor with one-click, fit 3D clothing to them, then send them back to CC4.

Thursday, April 17th, 2025

Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2025.1.1

Check out the latest features in the real-time visualization software, including support for DLSS 4 and a new procedural 3D grass material.

Wednesday, April 16th, 2025

Check out new 3ds Max UV unwrapping plugin UVReactor

Updated: Features added in the 1.1 and 1.2 releases include Multi Object Mode, UDIM packing, and the new UVReactor modifier.

Tuesday, April 15th, 2025

Reallusion releases iClone 8.53 with timecode support

Check out the new motion-capture workflows enabled by the free update to the real-time animation tool and its paid Timecode plugin.

Tuesday, April 15th, 2025

Anima 6.0 adds traffic simulation to Chaos's crowd animation tool

Crowd animation tool for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine gets a complete traffic simulation system, and a new viewport renderer.

Tuesday, April 15th, 2025

ZibraVDB: the new standard in OpenVDB for virtual production

[Sponsored] With its new Houdini plugin and free edition, Zibra AI's volumetric compression technology is shaking up real-time VFX.

Monday, April 14th, 2025

RandomControl releases Maverick Indie and Maverick Studio 2025.1

See the the new features in the GPU renderers, including better USD support and the option to import and render skinned characters.

Monday, April 14th, 2025

Digital painting software Howler 2023 is now free to download

Get the 2023 version of the digital painting and animation app for free, then donate to help get the latest version released as freeware.

Sunday, April 13th, 2025

Kickstart top concept designer Neville Page's new art book

A 'personal and practical field guide' for artists, Beauty in the Beast draws of Page's three decades of work on movies like Avatar and Cloverfield.

Sunday, April 13th, 2025