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Matte Painting

Check out the neat new Sky Paint tools in the December 2024 update to the sky-creation tool for VFX, visualization and games work.

Friday, December 20th, 2024

Get 125 free cloud textures on black backgrounds for background compositing in VFX or motion graphics projects. Commercial use.

Sunday, November 17th, 2024

Master real-world production workflows in Nuke with The Gnomon Workshop's advanced tutorial in visual effects compositing.

Sunday, August 25th, 2024

See how Absolute turned shots of a castle taken into October into a snowy winter landscape for Apple TV+'s period drama.

Sunday, January 14th, 2024

Online tool for generating 360° environments from text prompts or sketches now generates 3D world meshes as well as 2D skyboxes.

Tuesday, December 26th, 2023

Download a new pack of stock VFX assets each day until 25 December, like the snow and frost FX clips. 2K resolution, for commercial use.

Tuesday, December 19th, 2023

Streamlined tool for generating skies for use in matte paintings or as environment maps gets 32K HDR export, better live sync with UE5.

Tuesday, November 21st, 2023

Browser-based generative AI platform could soon generate complete 360° game environments from text prompts or sketches.

Thursday, November 2nd, 2023

Discover how MPC transformed Paris into a post-apocalyptic city with its VFX for the latest series in The Walking Dead universe.

Wednesday, November 1st, 2023

Check out the new features in the compositing and effects software, including a new workflow for subtitles and H.264 export.

Thursday, October 26th, 2023

Master advanced digital matte painting techniques with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Wednesday, August 16th, 2023

Create a large-scale city for VFX or cinematics work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Sunday, August 6th, 2023

Free plugin lets you create skyboxes by entering text prompts inside the Unreal Editor if you have a Skybox AI API key.

Tuesday, June 27th, 2023