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magic effect

Check out the feature set of the much-anticipated tool for creating VFX assets for games, its workflow, its release date, and its likely price.

Thursday, April 17th, 2025

Compositing Academy's neat free VFX tool offers a simple way to create flows of energy and light, or art direct stock FX elements.

Monday, October 21st, 2024

Get 50 stock FX clips, including explosions, fire and magic effects. ProRes/H.264 format, up to 4K, for commercial use.

Sunday, February 5th, 2023

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