CG Channel

Matte Painting

Garrett Fry's new DVD, Advanced 3D Matte Painting Techniques, offers 10 hours of advanced instruction.

Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

See CG art from rising stars of the games and VFX industries in Hollywood from 8 February to 8 April.

Monday, January 13th, 2014

The matte painter on Oblivion and Thor: The Dark World faces our barrage of tech and career questions.

Friday, December 13th, 2013

Find free tutorials and galleries on 3DTotal's new sister site for things Photoshop and Painter-related.

Monday, January 28th, 2013

Free Mari 1.3v2 update speeds up matte painting and clean-up work by up to 30%, developer estimates.

Friday, July 1st, 2011

Master professional hair and fur grooming techniques for visual effects with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.

Sunday, October 13th, 2024

Maya's multiphysics plugin gets experimental new modular rigging toolset, plus the option to generate variant simulations in the cloud.

Saturday, October 12th, 2024

Browser-based text-to-animation generative AI tool can now be used to create seamless animation cycles, and to retarget animation.

Saturday, October 12th, 2024

3D texture painting app gets new 2D painting mode for editing source images or creating custom decals without leaving the software .

Friday, October 11th, 2024

Now in beta: read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software, from Grease Pencil 3 to updates to Eevee and Cycles.

Thursday, October 10th, 2024

Sizeable update to the open-source game engine adds a new mobile render pipeline, and lets you create games without a C++ compiler.

Wednesday, October 9th, 2024