Discover how to create Lightning & Electricity Effects
Create energy FX using a robust generalist approach in Houdini, Maya and Nuke with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.
Sunday, May 25th, 2025
Character Animation
Get free Maya and UE5 rigging tools mGear 5.0 and ueGear 1.0
Check out the latest features in the open-source Maya character rigging and animation framework and its new Unreal Engine bridge.
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
Master FACS Rigging for Facial Motion Capture
Create a FACS-based facial rig suitable for VFX or animation work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Maya tutorial.
Saturday, April 26th, 2025
Tutorial: Creature Animation for Games
Discover how to animate run cycles, combat and death moves in Maya with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly tutorial.
Monday, April 21st, 2025
Reallusion releases iClone 8.53 with timecode support
Check out the new motion-capture workflows enabled by the free update to the real-time animation tool and its paid Timecode plugin.
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2025.1 with AI-based Inbetweening
Innovative animation app gets new AI system for generating realistic motion connecting two poses. Check out the other new features.
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
Autodesk releases Maya 2026 and Maya Creative 2026
3D modeling and animation tool gets updates to the ML Deformer and liquid simulation in Bifrost. Check out all the new features here.
Wednesday, March 26th, 2025
Unity unveils its 2025 product roadmap
Features due in Unity this year include in-editor LOD generation, swappable physics backends, and more generative AI tools.
Thursday, March 20th, 2025
5 key features in Blender 4.4
Check out the key changes in the latest version of the open-source 3D app, including important updates to animation and the CPU compositor.
Tuesday, March 18th, 2025
Tutorial: Creature Combat Animation in Maya
Discover how to create a King Kong-style creature fight sequence with The Gnomon Workshop's new five-hour Maya masterclass.
Saturday, March 15th, 2025
Check out neat AI-trained hand mocap tool HandCraft Pro
Animator Tal Minks' promising Maya plugin extracts hand animation from a standard webcam and bakes it to any five-fingered Maya character.
Monday, March 10th, 2025
Tutorial: Dynamic Cloth Simulation for Production
Master character effects workflows for animation, cinematics and VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Houdini tutorial.
Sunday, March 2nd, 2025
Richard Rosenman releases IK Studio for After Effects
New native After Effects plugin provides a fast, efficient way to create IK rigs for arms and legs for character animation.
Tuesday, February 11th, 2025