The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2018
Watch the best tech breakdown videos of the year, as chosen by CG Channel's Facebook followers.
Saturday, January 12th, 2019
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The best Black Friday and winter 2018 deals for CG artists
Updated with a new batch of winter offers: save money on CG software and resources with these deals.
Friday, December 21st, 2018
Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.5 for Maya
Skin and muscle simulation plugin gets new solvers for faster, more controllable secondary dynamics.
Thursday, December 13th, 2018
Shotgun Software ships Shotgun 8
Major update to the production tracking system introduces new 'cloud-connected desktop app' Shotgun Create.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
e-on software shakes up Vue and PlantFactory
Newly updated digital nature tools available as rental-only product bundles, not individual purchases.
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
Autodesk ships Maya 2018.5 and Maya LT 2018.5
Online changelog suggests that they're both just bugfixes on the way to Maya and Maya LT 2019.
Friday, November 30th, 2018
Discover cutting-edge workflows for 360° concept art
Master vital 2D and 3D techniques with new Gnomon tutorial Creating 360° Concept Art for Production.
Friday, November 30th, 2018
Next Limit releases RealFlow | 3ds Max 1.0
Create RealFlow simulations inside 3ds Max with the new cut-down plugin version of the fluid simulator.
Thursday, November 29th, 2018
Get two free Renderpeople animated characters
Download free animated characters in 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and FBX formats. For commercial use.
Sunday, November 25th, 2018
Radeon ProRender updated for 3ds Max, Maya and Blender
OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Unreal
New app converts scenes created in other editions of V-Ray for use in UE4, also baking out V-Ray lights.
Friday, November 9th, 2018
Quixel releases Quixel Bridge 2018.5
Free app for exporting Megascans assets to other software gets live links to 3ds Max, Houdini, Toolbag.
Thursday, November 8th, 2018
Appleseed team releases appleseed 2.0
Open-source physically based renderer gets new toon shading and image post-processing options.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018