The 10 best visual effects breakdowns of 2016
Watch our pick of the best movie, TV and commercials breakdown videos created in the past year.
Wednesday, January 4th, 2017
animation
Get Avengers animator Kiel Figgins' free Deadpool rig
Free Maya character rig includes facial controls and linked proxy rig for real-time and blocking work.
Thursday, December 29th, 2016
Mekajiki releases new $99 storyboard tool Boardfish
Streamlined new board layout app is based on US motion design studio Swordfish's in-house tools.
Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
See the speaker line-up for Gnomon Live Australia 2017
See top CG artists including Neville Page and Josh Herman at the Melbourne and Sydney-based festival next April.
Sunday, December 18th, 2016
Gnomon releases essential guide to game animation
Master vital UE4 and Maya skills with Call of Duty artist Bill Buckley's Creating Game Ready Animations for Production.
Tuesday, December 6th, 2016
Unity Technologies releases Unity 5.5
Sizeable update adds long-awaited tools for customising the Personal edition splash screen, HDRI-based Look Dev system.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2016
Marmoset releases Toolbag 3
Now shipping: Big update to the rendering toolkit adds animation support, real-time GI, texture baking, and Unity and UE4 export.
Friday, November 25th, 2016
Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers for CG artists
See over 50 money-saving offers, including Adobe, Autodesk, Allegorithmic, Marvelous Designer and Next Limit.
Thursday, November 24th, 2016
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.14
Update adds contact shadows, new forward renderer aimed at VR work, built-in automated LOD generation.
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
Nvidia is releasing Mental Ray for Maya for free
For single-frame and viewport renders, at least. Things get interesting with network and sequence rendering.
Wednesday, November 16th, 2016
Discover 15 of the best animation tools for Maya
Check out Brent Forrest's handy list of add-ons at LesterBanks.com - all but one of them available for free.
Wednesday, October 19th, 2016
Read a full list of new features in Terragen 4
Read a run-down of what's new in the landscape-generation software on Planetside's updated website.
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
The Foundry unveils Modo 10.2
Next week's update to the all-round 3D software to add schematic-free Booleans, extended procedural modelling, auto retopology system.
Thursday, October 6th, 2016