Google Cloud launches Zync Render 2.0
Online rendering service now offers up to 48,000 CPU cores per user, new GPU rendering options.
Thursday, May 2nd, 2019
animation
Discover how to create a CG superhero animation for VFX
Supergirl animation supervisor Elaina Scott's Gnomon tutorial takes you from previs to final shot.
Friday, April 26th, 2019
Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.22
Real-time visualisation platform gets hardware-accelerated ray tracing, option to import simple 3ds Max animations.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
Discover how CoSA VFX created Lucifer's wings
See key artists break down their CG work on the drama at Gnomon's Hollywood campus next week. Watch free online.
Saturday, April 13th, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 13.0
Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.18
Sizeable update to the game engine extends support for PhysX, and adds new animation and texture-processing functionality.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Whip your reel into shape at demo reel boot camp
Get free tips on creating a winning reel from recruiters at ILM, The Mill, Infinity Ward and DreamWorks at Gnomon next week.
Thursday, February 28th, 2019
Mario Baldi releases Edge Flow 2.0 for Modo
Handy Modo add-on automatically 'relaxes' edge loops to create clean, animation-ready topology.
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019
Get games careers advice from Halo 5 creator 343 Industries
Get career tips and showreel advice at Gnomon's free event for aspiring games artists next week.
Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
NewTek ships LightWave 2019
Fastest major update in LightWave history adds multi-user bridge to UE4, new digital sculpting tools, nodal editing of OpenVDB volumes.
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
SpeedTree Cinema 8.2 ships
Tree-creation software gets new toolset for blending meshes captured via photogrammetry into its procedurally generated trees.
Thursday, January 17th, 2019
Autodesk ships Maya 2019 and Maya LT 2019
Both get improved Viewport 2.0 performance; Maya gets cached playback for animation previews.
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2018
Watch the best tech breakdown videos of the year, as chosen by CG Channel's Facebook followers.
Saturday, January 12th, 2019