Master FACS Rigging for Facial Motion Capture
Create a FACS-based facial rig suitable for VFX or animation work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Maya tutorial.
Saturday, April 26th, 2025
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Unity 6.1: discover 5 key features for CG artists
See the key features in the game engine and real-time renderer, from better 3D water to Variable Rate Shading and Deferred+ rendering.
Friday, April 25th, 2025
Get VFX artist Thomas Marcos' free Blender clouds shader
Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
NVIDIA open-sources PhysX's GPU simulation code
Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
Hair Cinematic Tool 2.0 simplifies hair shading in Unreal Engine 5
Argentum Studio's in-house tool simplifies the process of lighting and rendering hair and fur in Unreal Engine 5.5. Free for a month.
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
LightWave Digital releases LightWave 2025
Check out the new features in the 3D software, including viewport path tracing, a new Toon Filter, and new rigging and animation tools.
Friday, April 18th, 2025
Get the free version of ZibraVDB for Unreal Engine and Houdini
Updated: free version of the real-time volumetric effects tool for games and virtual production is now available for Houdini as well as Unreal Engine.
Friday, April 18th, 2025
See JangaFX's first demo of IlluGen, its app for in-game VFX
Check out the feature set of the much-anticipated tool for creating VFX assets for games, its workflow, its release date, and its likely price.
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
Autodesk releases Flame 2026
Check out the new features in the compositing and effects software, including OCIO support, a new Type tool and AI clip upscaling.
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
Character Creator gets new free MetaTailor plugin
Add-on lets you send characters from Character Creator to MetaTailor with one-click, fit 3D clothing to them, then send them back to CC4.
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2025.1.1
Check out the latest features in the real-time visualization software, including support for DLSS 4 and a new procedural 3D grass material.
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Leopoly adds voxel sculpting to Shapelab 2025
Version 2025 v2.0 of the VR modeling app adds a new voxel engine for blocking out 3D forms. Check out the other new features.
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Check out new 3ds Max UV unwrapping plugin UVReactor
Updated: Features added in the 1.1 and 1.2 releases include Multi Object Mode, UDIM packing, and the new UVReactor modifier.
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025