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Check out the new features in the popular Maya fur and feathers plugin, including a new production-ready Viewport 2.0 hair shader.

Tuesday, March 5th, 2024

Check out the new features in the hair and fur plugin, including a point-and-click groom-creation system, and the option to 'box' operators.

Friday, December 15th, 2023

Intriguing Blender-based tool can automatically generate 3D terrain, plants - and even rigged creatures.

Thursday, July 13th, 2023

Create production-quality grooms with Maya's XGen toolset with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Monday, October 24th, 2022

Read a detailed run-down of new features in the procedural 3D app, including updates to simulation, creature effects, Solaris and Karma.

Thursday, July 21st, 2022

See a full list of new features in the next version of Houdini, including updates to creature effects, fluid simulation, Solaris and Karma.

Monday, July 18th, 2022

Check out the key tools in this big update to the procedural 3D app: from muscles, multiphysics and Pyro simulations to Karma XPU.

Wednesday, October 27th, 2021

Create facial hair for an animatable 3D character with The Gnomon Workshop's introductory tutorial.

Saturday, September 11th, 2021

Learn to style digital hair and fur with The Gnomon Workshop's guide to current VFX workflows.

Monday, August 9th, 2021

New cloud-based service will let VFX artists use 100 of Weta's Academy Award-winning in-house tools inside a custom build of Maya.

Thursday, June 17th, 2021

Discover 20 video tutorials from the leading digital training firm that no CG artist can afford to miss.

Sunday, January 31st, 2021

Master modelling, animation, effects and rendering in Maya with this comprehensive tutorial series.

Saturday, November 14th, 2020

Discover how to use the powerful Maya hair plugin in production with DreamWorks Animation hair lead Victor Javier Garza's full tutorial.

Friday, June 12th, 2020