Autodesk ships Maya 2020.1 and Maya LT 2020.1
Maya gets new integration plugin for Rokoko's mocap library, better Bifrost performance, support for painting 16K textures.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
FXGear ships Qualoth 2020
Robust Maya cloth plugin gets support for Maya 2020's cached playback system for simulations, finer control over cloth collisions.
Friday, March 6th, 2020
Visit Gnomon's free 2020 Student Gallery Show
See new art from the CG industry's rising stars at a free exhibition at LA's Gnomon Gallery this month.
Tuesday, February 18th, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.82
Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.
Friday, February 14th, 2020
Register for Riot Games: A Day in the Life of an Artist
Get vital career tips on concept art, animation and VFX for games at a free event at Gnomon next week. Watch free online.
Monday, February 10th, 2020
Thinkinetic releases Pulldownit 4.8 for Maya
Shattering and dynamics plugin gets speed boosts to shatter tools, including 3x boost to previews.
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
Unity 2019.3 ships
Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs.
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
Master production workflows for Maya's nCloth toolset
Discover how to simulation clothing in Maya with The Gnomon Workshop's new video training.
Monday, January 27th, 2020
iClone Unreal Live Link now free to indie users
Reallusion makes plugin originally priced at $1,490 free to artists earning less than $100,000/year.
Monday, January 20th, 2020
Shoot and edit better video reference for animation
See Method Studios' Sarah Arduini set out her character animation workflow in Gnomon's new tutorial.
Wednesday, January 15th, 2020
The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2019
Watch the best tech breakdowns of 2019, as determined by 120,000 CG Channel Facebook followers.
Sunday, January 12th, 2020
Check out promising open-source 2D animation tool enve
Free app provides an interesting range of features, particularly for vector and motion design work.
Friday, January 3rd, 2020