Tutorial: Creating Production-Ready Hero Assets Using Mari
Master professional asset development workflows for VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's advanced-level tutorial.
Sunday, March 9th, 2025
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These simple free tools convert Maya shaders to Blender
VFX artist Robert Rioux's handy open-source tools convert the aiStandardSurface shader to Blender's Principled BSDF.
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
Sparseal releases Uniform 1.3
Check out the new features in the modeling and texturing iPad app, including support for procedural objects and projection painting.
Thursday, December 26th, 2024
Tutorial: Creating a Hero Weapon for Games
Discover how to model, texture and render production-quality weapons and props for videogames with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed guide.
Friday, June 28th, 2024
See Mojo FX's VFX breakdown for Testament: The Story of Moses
Discover how the VFX studio created over 560 miraculous effects shots for the Netflix chart-topping religous minseries.
Friday, June 7th, 2024
Free tool: paint textures in Blender with HAS Paint Layers
Check out games artist Vlad Hirourk's streamlined new Blender add-on for Substance-style layer-based texture painting.
Thursday, June 6th, 2024
The making-of for Watermelon Girl charts a five-year labor of love
Check out self-taught animator SouthernShotty's inspirational animation breakdown for his 13-minute, one-person Blender short.
Monday, April 22nd, 2024
Ynput releases Ayon 1.0
Open-source pipeline for VFX and animation work is now production-ready - and available in the cloud as well as to install locally for free.
Thursday, January 18th, 2024
Ynput launches free VFX and animation pipeline Ayon
Updated, now in beta: open-source framework connects VFX tools into a coherent USD-ready pipeline.
Friday, August 25th, 2023
Tutorial: Creating a Monolithic City in Unreal Engine 5
Create a large-scale city for VFX or cinematics work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.
Sunday, August 6th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 7.3
3D texture painting app gets new Warp and Cylindrical projection modes, revamped colour picker.
Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Foundry ships Modo 14.1
3D modelling and rendering app gets significant improvements to CPU ray tracing and denoising, and to the Advanced Viewport display.
Monday, July 27th, 2020
Gnomon ships Introduction to Substance Painter 2018
New texturing crash course from Naughty Dog's Christophe Desse aims to take you from 'zero to hero'.
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018