The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2019
Watch the best tech breakdowns of 2019, as determined by 120,000 CG Channel Facebook followers.
Sunday, January 12th, 2020
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Ephere ships Ornatrix C4D 1.0
New Cinema 4D edition of the popular hair, fur and feather simulation plugin works with both Arnold and Redshift out of the box.
Tuesday, January 7th, 2020
Download Maya hair plugin Shave and a Haircut 9.6 free
Get the hair and fur plugin and its Arnold, RenderMan and V-Ray shaders from Epic Games for free.
Thursday, October 24th, 2019
Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 3.5
Sizeable update to the Maya fur and feathers plugin adds support for Alembic and OpenColorIO, plus new volumetric hair guide model.
Wednesday, August 21st, 2019
Yeti fur plugin goes back on sale in the United States
Popular Maya plugin on sale to US studios again - and with a 15% discount until 31 July to celebrate.
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019
Tighe Rzankowski releases Feather Tools For Houdini
Promising new feather-generation and animation toolkit has been used in Alt.VFX's commercial work.
Friday, June 28th, 2019
Epic Games acquires Shave and a Haircut
Version 9.6 of the veteran Maya hair plugin to be released free to UE4 users, including source code.
Thursday, June 6th, 2019
Master Realistic Dog Grooming for Production with XGen
Image Engine grooming artist Jordan Soler's new Gnomon tutorial provides a complete guide to Maya's fur toolset.
Saturday, January 26th, 2019
The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2018
Watch the best tech breakdown videos of the year, as chosen by CG Channel's Facebook followers.
Saturday, January 12th, 2019
Ephere ships Ornatrix V6 for 3ds Max
Popular hair and fur plugin gets new physics, clumping and braiding toolsets, native support for Arnold.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
Ephere announces Ornatrix for Cinema 4D
Popular 3ds Max hair, fur and feathers tool coming to Cinema 4D. Sign up to join the beta program.
Monday, October 15th, 2018
SideFX ships Houdini 17
Videos: major Houdini update adds Vellum multphysics solver, new cloth and hair tools, material-based facturing and simulation retiming.
Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
Ephere releases Ornatrix for Maya v2
Big update to hair plugin adds new physics system, clumping controls, option to generate woven fabrics.
Monday, June 11th, 2018