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visual effects

Including end of life for Meshmixer and the 3ds Max Asset Library, and unified licences for Chaos Phoenix.

Friday, December 31st, 2021

Check out the new features in the 'AAA-capable' open-source game engine built on AWS's Lumberyard.

Thursday, December 30th, 2021

Get 6 free FX clips of emergency flares, 19 cartoon fire and smoke effects, and 50 dirt textures. For commercial use.

Tuesday, December 28th, 2021

Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.

Thursday, December 23rd, 2021

New GPUOpen MaterialX library provides free PBR materials in the new open format for look dev data.

Tuesday, December 21st, 2021

Get 22 models of black alders in .uasset format with LODs and 8k textures from the new Megascans Trees range.

Sunday, December 19th, 2021

Parametric modelling plugin gets new banking controls for splines; can now distribute lights and VDBs.

Friday, December 17th, 2021

Compositing software gets Universal Text Engine for titling and motion graphics. New Extended Viewport for 3D work now in beta.

Thursday, December 16th, 2021

Update: free app can now create 3D scans of objects in Cinema 4D, as well as capturing mocap data.

Thursday, December 16th, 2021

Free tool for streaming animation between Maya and UE4 now supports facial blendshape data.

Wednesday, December 15th, 2021

Lighting and look dev software gets new Nuke Bridge for live linking to Nuke comps, updates to the Hydra Viewer and Foresight+ rendering.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2021

VFX image viewer and playback system gets support for new open standard OpenTimelineIO. Sales of perpetual licences discontinued.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2021

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial shows how to go from empty scene to complete destruction simulation.

Monday, December 13th, 2021