Master volumetric effects in Houdini
Discover how to create clouds, smoke and fog with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed masterclass.
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
compositing
Red Giant launches VFX Suite
Set of 9 GPU-based, VFX-focused After Effects plugins includes neat new tool Supercomp; updates to Primatte Keyer, Knoll Light Factory.
Wednesday, June 19th, 2019
Boris FX ships Mocha Pro, Continuum & Sapphire 2019.5
Continuum gets better integration with C4D and Primatte keying. Mocha Pro and Sapphire now available for Flame.
Thursday, June 13th, 2019
Review: BOXX APEXX T3 workstation
Jason Lewis puts this powerful 3D workstation through a battery of real-world DCC benchmark tests.
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Check out free Nuke deep compositing toolkit DeepC
Handy set of open-source Nuke plugins makes deep compositing more accessible to smaller studios.
Monday, May 6th, 2019
Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.22
Real-time visualisation platform gets hardware-accelerated ray tracing, option to import simple 3ds Max animations.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
Autodesk ships Flame 2020
Now shipping: compositing software gets AI-driven depth and normal map generators, support for Cryptomatte and OFX plugins.
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
Adobe ships Dimension CC 2.2
3D app for graphic designers gets support for cloud rendering and Substance materials, but the old V-Ray render engine has gone.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Adobe releases After Effects CC 16.1
Spring 2019 update adds Content-Aware Fill for automatic object removal, new Expressions Editor.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.22
Game engine gets support for real-time ray tracing on Nvidia GPUs, plus new animation and virtual production tools.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Master Houdini Terrain Techniques
Discover how to use Houdini's powerful terrain-generation tools with Gnomon's detailed tutorial.
Friday, March 29th, 2019
Boris FX releases free update to Continuum 2019
Free 12.0.1 update improves performance of the effects plugin suite's new Particle Illusion toolset.
Monday, February 25th, 2019
FXhome ships HitFilm Pro 12.0 and HitFilm Express 12.0
Now available: 'Biggest ever' update adds threaded rendering, GPU video decoding to the editing and compositing app.
Friday, February 15th, 2019