Create perfect topology for animated characters
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create 3D characters with animation-friendly, production-ready topology in Maya and ZBrush.
Saturday, November 16th, 2024
Maya
Ephere releases Ornatrix 3 for Cinema 4D
Hair and fur plugin gets new tools for 'grafting' procedural hair grooms onto a character, and 'boxing' operators into single modifiers.
Friday, November 15th, 2024
Download VFX artist David Llopis's free Maya dragon rig
Get the DNEG Lead Animator's neat free creature rig, licensed for use in portfolio work, and supplied as a Maya MB scene file.
Sunday, November 3rd, 2024
Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max
Latest major update to the renderer adds support for 3D Gaussian Splatting and luminaires, and updates V-Ray GPU and the VFB.
Thursday, October 31st, 2024
Check out Wonder Studio's new Wonder Animation feature
New video-to-3D-scene system 'brings artists closer to producing animated films' as well as VFX with the AI online film-making platform.
Thursday, October 31st, 2024
10 subtle tricks to improve your character animation
Discover 10 things you can do today to improve your character animation work with DreamWorks animator Adrien Liv's expert tips.
Tuesday, October 29th, 2024
Chaos releases Vantage 2.6
Real-time ray tracing renderer for large V-Ray scenes gets support for the V-Ray Clipper and a new Water Surface object.
Saturday, October 26th, 2024
Creating a Character Bust: From Ideation to Final Render
Create a portfolio-worthy 3D character with Naughty Dog Senior Character Artist Colleen Larson's tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.
Sunday, October 20th, 2024
Autodesk releases Maya 2025.3
Update to the 3D animation tool reworks Boolean modeling, and introduces OpenPBR support and interesting new simulation features.
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
Autodesk announces updates to Flow at Autodesk University
New Flow Graph Engine API and Flow Animating in Context will help connect Autodesk's cloud platform to desktop apps like Maya.
Tuesday, October 15th, 2024
Autodesk releases Bifrost for Maya 2.11
Maya's multiphysics plugin gets experimental new modular rigging toolset, plus the option to generate variant simulations in the cloud.
Saturday, October 12th, 2024
DeepMotion rolls out AI text-to-animation service SayMotion 2.4
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
Tutorial: Cinematic Lighting Shot Production
Master professional CG lighting workflows in Maya, Arnold, Katana and Nuke with The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.
Sunday, October 6th, 2024