CG Channel

Matte Painting

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how Gaea's procedural terrain tools extend VFX workflows.

Monday, December 14th, 2020

Get futuristic 3D buildings in the native formats of 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Maya, Houdini, UE4 and Unity. For commercial use.

Monday, August 17th, 2020

Create, light and render large landscapes suitable for VFX work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.

Wednesday, April 1st, 2020

Need to work from home? Your CG software may be available free if you use these companies' tools.

Wednesday, March 18th, 2020

Check out the new features in Foundry's family of compositing tools, broken down by edition.

Thursday, February 20th, 2020

Get textures of wall materials from CGI Vault. TIFF format, with normal and height maps. Commercial use.

Sunday, February 9th, 2020

Get started with Isotropix's layout and look dev tool at a free event at Gnomon's LA campus next week, or watch on Twitch.

Saturday, October 5th, 2019

Base edition of the software gets neat Healing Brush-like Inpaint node; NukeX gets VR compositing tools from Cara VR.

Sunday, September 29th, 2019

See the personal artwork of 15 artists from the legendary CG facility at a new free exhibition at the Hollywood gallery.

Wednesday, May 8th, 2019

Handy online image library offers reference photos for VFX artists at high resolution and multiple EVs.

Sunday, March 31st, 2019

Get Jacek Pilarski's 16-bit panoramas of clouds at widths over 6,000px, for use in matte paintings.

Sunday, April 8th, 2018

See a round-up of the best student art created the Rookies awards' 2017 animation school of the year.

Sunday, February 18th, 2018

Two detailed new video tutorials set out current environment design workflows for VFX and games.

Monday, October 30th, 2017