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Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
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Get Allan McKay's free 15-hour The Shores VFX course
Create a building destruction shot in 3ds Max, tyFlow and Phoenix FD with this new video training course.
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
Master the art of creating a photorealistic interior scene
Create interiors for VFX work with Digital Domain lighting lead Adrien Vallecilla's new Gnomon tutorial.
Saturday, February 22nd, 2020
Foundry ships Nuke 12.1, NukeX 12.1, Nuke Studio 12.1
Check out the new features in Foundry's family of compositing tools, broken down by edition.
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
Download 800+ free 3D LUTs
Get photography collective Q-DDL's free 3D LUTs for color grading or applying film looks to video or rendered images. Commercial use.
Sunday, January 19th, 2020
The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2019
Watch the best tech breakdowns of 2019, as determined by 120,000 CG Channel Facebook followers.
Sunday, January 12th, 2020
Download version 2.0 of Spin VFX's free Nuke Gizmos
Get the VFX studio's popular - and newly updated - open-source collection of compositing tools.
Monday, January 6th, 2020
Check out Point Render 1.1 for Nuke
Updated: Create, shade and render particle effects via higx's versatile BlinkScript-based point renderer.
Monday, January 6th, 2020
Eye candy: Foundry's 2019 APAC showreel
Watch an eye-catching two-minute round-up of the best animation and VFX from China, Japan and Korea.
Wednesday, January 1st, 2020
KeenTools releases free beta of FaceBuilder for Blender
New edition of the neat VFX tool creates 3D head models from source photos directly in Blender.
Monday, December 23rd, 2019
The best Black Friday and winter 2019 deals for CG artists
Save money this month with these great seasonal deals on CG software, hardware and assets.
Friday, November 29th, 2019
Boris FX ships Mocha Pro, Continuum and Sapphire 2020
Updated: Sapphire 2020 ships. Release adds OpenColorIO support, new lens whacking effect.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
Foundry closes Athera
All-in-one production platform pitched as a complete visual effects studio in the cloud shuts just 18 months after its commercial launch.
Thursday, November 7th, 2019