Alexandra Institute releases Elementacular 1.5

Maya cloud-creation plugin gets OpenVDB export for rendering in Arnold, V-Ray and RenderMan.

Monday, December 19th, 2016

Graphine releases Granite SDK 4.0

Games texture-streaming system gets mipmap streaming, better workflow with version control tools.

Monday, December 19th, 2016

Gnomon ships essential guide to Storyboarding Techniques

10-hour tutorial from Falling Skies artist Fred Gago sets out key skills for storyboarding in Photoshop.

Saturday, December 17th, 2016

The Foundry ships Mari 3.2

Videos: Update to texture-painting tool makes the node graph more intuitive to use, adds new non-destructive Bake Point node.

Friday, December 16th, 2016

Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 5.6

Texture-creation app gets eight new filters for blending and editing 3D scanned real-world materials.

Friday, December 16th, 2016

Unity Technologies releases Unity 5.6 and EditorVR in beta

Sizeable update to the game engine now available in beta, along with its new VR editing toolset.

Thursday, December 15th, 2016

Get Allan McKay's new free 18-hour VFX training course

Create a complete reverse-gravity destruction FX shot in 3ds Max and Nuke. Includes source footage and project files.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2016

Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 12.5.4

Free update to grading app adds Touch Bar support on MacBook Pros; improves HDR workflow.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2016

Discover how Blur created its amazing Titanfall 2 trailer

See the studio's key staff reveal their workflow at a free event at Gnomon's LA campus this Saturday. Watch free online.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2016

Dassault Systèmes acquires Next Limit Dynamics

CAD firm buys division of Next Limit behind its XFlow fluid dynamics software. RealFlow unaffected.

Monday, December 12th, 2016

Golaem ships Golaem PLE

New free, time-unlimited edition lets artists try the Maya crowd simulation tool before they buy. Support for Redshift also added.

Monday, December 12th, 2016

Imagineer Systems releases mocha Pro 5.2

Planar tracker gets new floating and $99 render licence types; GPU tracking supports 32-bit footage.

Monday, December 12th, 2016

DGDM releases SLiB | Browser Pro 2.0 for Maya

Free update to Maya shader manager adds support for metadata, multiple shader libraries.

Friday, December 9th, 2016