Eye candy: Autodesk's 2017 VFX reel
See the best new VFX created in Max and Maya: from Deadpool to The Mill's amazing commercials.
Tuesday, March 28th, 2017
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Boris FX releases Sapphire 10 Units
Popular suite of effects plugins now available as nine modular units, priced from $195 to $595 apiece.
Monday, March 27th, 2017
ActionVFX releases 15 free blood mist elements
Download high-quality practical elements to simulate bullet hits. 2K resolution, 60fps; commercial use.
Sunday, March 26th, 2017
Reallusion releases Character Creator 2.0
Free(ish) tool for creating rigged 3D human characters gets support for PBR shading, image-based lighting.
Friday, March 24th, 2017
3ds Max 2018 will include Arnold, not Mental Ray
Max 2018 to include a limited-use version of Arnold in place of Iray or Mental Ray when it ships this April.
Friday, March 24th, 2017
New Gnomon video: Creating Props for Games, Vol 2.
Master PBR shading workflows in Substance Painter and UE4 with Riot Games' Nick Reynolds' detailed guide.
Friday, March 24th, 2017
3d-io ships Unwrella 3.10
Long-established automatic UV unfolding plugin for 3ds Max and Maya gets fast new flatten unwrap mode for hard-surface objects.
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017
PUX releases Hard Mesh 2
Neat hard-surface modelling plugin lets Maya users create complex Booleans, then continue to edit the combined geometry interactively.
Tuesday, March 21st, 2017
Anastasiy releases MagicSquire 1.5
Updated: New add-on lets users organise Photoshop brushes and tools presets via drag-and-drop.
Monday, March 20th, 2017
Eye candy: the Unreal Engine 2017 sizzle reel
See sneak peeks of the Final Fantasy VII remake, Injustice 2 and other new titles created in UE4.
Sunday, March 19th, 2017
Download free 3D scans of a female figure and a xenomorph
Get SnapTank's hi-res scans of human and alien figures free until 31 March. OBJ format, textured.
Sunday, March 19th, 2017
New Gnomon video: Multi Pass Rendering and Compositing
Master advanced workflows like deep compositing with Psyop veteran Robby Branham's detailed four-hour tutorial.
Sunday, March 19th, 2017
Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 11
VFX-friendly paint app gets new roto tools, updates to the Puppy Ray renderer. Price now under $50.
Friday, March 17th, 2017