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motion graphics

Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool, including Runtime Virtual Texturing and an Advanced Water Shader.

Thursday, March 13th, 2025

You can download the set of 1,200+ meshes of buildings and props free from Epic Games' Fab marketplace - but you'll need to be quick about it.

Wednesday, March 12th, 2025

New free plugin based on veteran standalone app MakeHuman creates custom 3D characters, complete with skin and clothing.

Tuesday, March 11th, 2025

Animator Tal Minks' promising Maya plugin extracts hand animation from a standard webcam and bakes it to any five-fingered Maya character.

Monday, March 10th, 2025

Master character effects workflows for animation, cinematics and VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Houdini tutorial.

Sunday, March 2nd, 2025

Promising open-source add-on lets you scatter plants and rocks in your scenes according to elevation, texture masks or guide curves.

Sunday, March 2nd, 2025

Next major update to Nuke introduces native multishot compositing, and improves roto performance and BlinkScript editing.

Friday, February 28th, 2025

3D tracking and match-moving software gets new multi-export system, AI-based roto masking, and 3D head mesh for head tracking.

Thursday, February 27th, 2025

Check out the changes to the intuitive NURBS modeler, including a revamped interface, and a new Section Analysis command.

Wednesday, February 26th, 2025

Get free volumetric 3D clouds for previs, motion graphics and VFX in CG apps and game engines like Blender, Maya and Unreal Engine.

Tuesday, February 25th, 2025

Video editing, compositing and VFX app and still image editor had over 6 million users prior to buyout and switch to subscription pricing.

Monday, February 24th, 2025

Check out the new features in the 3D capture software, including path tracing in the 3D View and support for HP's Z Captis scanner.

Friday, February 21st, 2025

Check out the new features in the suite of motion graphics and VFX plugins and the online library of effects and transitions.

Thursday, February 13th, 2025