Foundry ships Modo 12.0
First release in the Modo 12 Series overhauls the Mesh Paint tool, and adds a neat new Surface Strips system to MeshFusion modelling.
Thursday, March 29th, 2018
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Eye candy: Unreal Engine and Unity's GDC 2018 sizzle reels
Action-packed new reels reveal the amazing breadth of work now being created in game engines.
Thursday, March 22nd, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.19
Update adds live link plugins for Maya and MotionBuilder, material layers, physical units for lights.
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
10 tips for negotiating a better salary as a CG artist
Get the salary you deserve with Doom and Call of Duty concept artist Eliott Lilly's 10 career tips.
Monday, March 5th, 2018
Eye candy: Gnomon's beautiful 2018 student reel
See a round-up of the best student art created the Rookies awards' 2017 animation school of the year.
Sunday, February 18th, 2018
YcdiVFX releases Physics Tools for Maya
Neat new Maya plugin adds instant believable secondary motion to keyframed character animations.
Friday, February 16th, 2018
Facebook's Quill VR painting tool now lets you animate, too
Quill 1.4 lets you animate layers or brush strokes frame by frame and export the result in Alembic format.
Friday, February 9th, 2018
CG Futures announces strong 2018 speaker line-up
Melbourne-based CG show to feature top concept artist Aaron Sims' first Australian masterclass.
Monday, January 29th, 2018
The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2017
Watch the best tech breakdown videos of the year, as chosen by our 125,000 Facebook followers.
Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
Meet the new directors of Google's Spotlight Stories
See the creators of the award-winning series of VR shorts speak at Gnomon's LA campus on 16 Jan. Watch free online.
Sunday, January 7th, 2018
Nuke and Houdini developers win technical Oscars
Four Scientific and Technology Awards in total, including an Oscar statuette for SideFX's Mark Elendt.
Friday, January 5th, 2018
Download SideFX's free Skinning Converter for Houdini
Neat free tool turns the output of sims to lightweight bone-based animations to use in game engines.
Thursday, December 14th, 2017
Reallusion ships iClone 7.1
Update to real-time character animation tool overhauls the DoF system and animation timeline; adds paid-for Curve Editor plugin.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2017