Adobe releases After Effects 24.5
Compositing and motion graphics app gets new 3D features including support for animated 3D models and a shadow catcher system.
Wednesday, June 19th, 2024
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The Glaze Project releases anti-AI 'style cloaking' tool Glaze 2.0
Free tool to prevent generative AI models from learning artists' personal styles from online images is now faster and more robust.
Monday, April 15th, 2024
PSOFT releases Pencil+ 4.05 Line for Blender
Add-on brings the outline rendering toolset used on anime movies to the open-source 3D app. Now supports viewport rendering and EPS export.
Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
Check out Goo Engine: Blender for 3D anime
Interesting fork of the open-source 3D software adds animation and rendering features for anime artists.
Thursday, July 13th, 2023
Glaze protects artists' images from 'unethical AI models'
Version 1.0 now available: free 'cloaking' tool makes it harder for AI models to learn from artists' online images.
Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
Stability.ai releases its Stable Diffusion add-on for Blender
Stability for Blender puts the AI image generator into Blender - for animation as well as still images.
Monday, March 6th, 2023
Free add-on AI Render puts Stable Diffusion into Blender
AI image-generation framework turns simple 3D scenes in Blender into detailed, stylised concept art.
Monday, October 17th, 2022
Eye candy: Foundry's 2019 APAC showreel
Watch an eye-catching two-minute round-up of the best animation and VFX from China, Japan and Korea.
Wednesday, January 1st, 2020
PSOFT releases Pencil+ 4 for Maya
Try the new Maya edition of the Japanese cel shading plugin, as used on Dragon Ball Super: Broly.
Monday, October 29th, 2018
Create free CG characters with Manuel Bastioni Lab 1.6.1
Updated: MakeHuman-style tool for creating custom 3D characters gets new hair library and hair shaders.
Sunday, January 28th, 2018
PSOFT ships Pencil+ 4
Popular 3ds Max cel-shading plugin gets support for material transparency; now works with XRefs and the Nitrous viewport.
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
Buy the 3D models used to create Knights of Sidonia
Get the character, mech and ship models Polygon Pictures used to produce the TV anime, including two free figures.
Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
OLM Digital releases Color Key and Distance Gradation
Free After Effects plugins speed up keying and creation of glow effects, particularly for 2D animation work.
Wednesday, November 26th, 2014