Facebook's Quill VR painting tool now lets you animate, too
Quill 1.4 lets you animate layers or brush strokes frame by frame and export the result in Alembic format.
Friday, February 9th, 2018
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Corel ships Painter Essentials 6
Sub-$50 natural media paint package gets revamped UI, plus better interactive performance when working with large canvases.
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
Adobe ships Dimension CC
Videos: Check out this intuitive new V-Ray powered rendering and compositing tool, targeted at 'graphic designers, not 3D experts'.
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
Visit Gnomon's free Anatomy Lab creature design workshop
See masterclasses in painting and sculpting stylised CG creatures at Gnomon's LA campus this Saturday. Watch free online.
Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
Adobe chooses V-Ray as core renderer for Project Felix
V-Ray chosen as render engine for new visualisation tool aimed at 'graphic designers, not 3D experts'.
Wednesday, January 11th, 2017
Adobe releases Project Felix in beta
Simple rendering and compositing app is free to anyone with a current paid Creative Cloud subscription.
Friday, December 23rd, 2016
Master digital painting for landscape illustration
Explore key Photoshop and Painter skills in Gnomon's free masterclass this Thursday. Watch free online.
Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
Gnomon ships Developing Storytelling Skills from Life
Illustrator April Connors' three-hour guide to figure drawing sets out essential skills for character and costume designers.
Thursday, June 16th, 2016
Watch Designing The Avengers: Age of Ultron
Updated: See Marvel Studios artists discuss their work at this free event on Saturday 8 August - now also to be livestreamed online.
Friday, August 7th, 2015
Gnomon ships Figure Fundamentals Volume 2
New guide to figure drawing shows how to capture a live model, then repose the figure from memory.
Thursday, August 6th, 2015
10 questions: Ori and the Blind Forest's Simon Kopp
The concept artist tells us about his work, designing believable game worlds, and his tips for other artists.
Monday, July 27th, 2015
Gnomon releases Illustration From Imagination
See illustrator Cameron Scott Davis create a fantasy character, from sketch to finished Photoshop image.
Friday, July 24th, 2015
Gnomon releases Syd Mead's Airship Arrival
Two-hour training video shows how the legendary Blade Runner concept designer paints a futuristic airship.
Friday, July 10th, 2015