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Discover 10 things you can do today to improve your character animation work with DreamWorks animator Adrien Liv's expert tips.

Tuesday, October 29th, 2024

Follow FuseFX artist Kevin Pinga's production hacks to create faster, more flexible Houdini fluid sims.

Thursday, March 26th, 2020

The creator of Star Trek's Phasers and Men in Black's De-Atomizer discusses the art of gun design.

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including nifty new Select Details options in the AI-based Object Selection tool.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Update to the renderer adds over 3,100 Chaos Scans materials to the Cosmos library, and improves DoF and volumetric effects.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Get JustB Studios' 1850s Post Office Environment pack of 3D assets for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace. For commercial use.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

Argentum Studio's in-house tool simplifies the process of lighting and rendering hair and fur in Unreal Engine 5.5. Free for a month.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025