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Create art-directable simulations with The Gnomon Workshop's guide to Houdini's FLIP fluids and rigid body dynamics toolsets.

Friday, January 12th, 2024

See a VFX breakdown of the strange shape-shifting creatures Realtime created for the UK sci-fi show's 60th anniversary special.

Thursday, January 11th, 2024

Firm to cut approximately 1,800 jobs in a bid to refocus on its core game engine and game tools business.

Tuesday, January 9th, 2024

Get the Ithris Cemetery and Fantasy Bundle Environment Kit 3 in 1 packs free from the Unreal Marketplace this month. For commercial use.

Sunday, January 7th, 2024

Get started in character animation with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly guide.

Saturday, January 6th, 2024

Handy add-on lets users export rigged characters from Maya to AI animation tool Cascadeur in a few clicks, then send animation back.

Thursday, December 28th, 2023

New $10 add-on brings simple Houdini-style physics-based scene layout workflows to the open-source 3D software.

Thursday, December 28th, 2023

Neat tool to simplify world building in Unreal Engine 5 gets new Physics Paint system, PBR texture packing. Perpetual licenses now available.

Wednesday, December 27th, 2023

Neat Geometry Nodes set-up adds detailed 3D moss, flowers, and even sea creatures to your scenes. The base edition is free.

Tuesday, December 26th, 2023

Browser-based AI mocap platform now extracts facial and full-body animation from the same video. Available with free subscriptions.

Friday, December 22nd, 2023

DNEG TD's add-on to streamline UV workflow gets new options for working with UDIMs, and checking assets for common UV errors.

Thursday, December 21st, 2023

Download a new pack of stock VFX assets each day until 25 December, like the snow and frost FX clips. 2K resolution, for commercial use.

Tuesday, December 19th, 2023

Neat add-on that brings node-based compositing to After Effects gets support for 3D layers, cameras, node groups and multi-graphs.

Friday, December 15th, 2023