Autodesk ships Flame 2022.2
Compositing, finishing and effects software gets eight new advanced colour correction curve types and support for 12G SDI video output.
Sunday, October 17th, 2021
visual effects
Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs - 2021
See how Nvidia and AMD's current pro GPUs perform in real-world tests, from modeling to rendering.
Thursday, October 14th, 2021
Arnold and V-Ray win Engineering Emmy Awards
Renderers win primetime Emmy Awards alongside crowd simulation tools Massive and Golaem Crowd.
Monday, October 11th, 2021
Watch VIEW Conference 2021 for free
See the international VFX and animation conference free online, or in person in Turin from 17-22 October 2021.
Sunday, October 10th, 2021
Discover expert techniques for building 3D environments
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial provides time-saving tricks for Clarisse, Houdini and SpeedTree.
Friday, October 8th, 2021
Rookies 2021 rankings reveal world's best CG schools
The US's SCAD places first overall. See the category winners for animation, game design and VFX.
Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
Autodesk adds Resource Planning Views to ShotGrid
Production tracking system's new high-level overviews show which artists in a studio are over- or under-worked.
Tuesday, September 28th, 2021
Discover how to clean up 3D scans for production
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to prepare 3D scans for use in production pipelines.
Monday, September 27th, 2021
Autodesk ships Maya 2022.2
Check out the new features in the 3D modelling and animation software, including new scaling controls for the Solidify deformer.
Thursday, September 23rd, 2021
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2022.2
Update overhauls UV workflow, and improves USD export and support for tablet pen pressure.
Thursday, September 23rd, 2021
Eye candy: Chaos's 2021 V-Ray showreel
See the best VFX and animation work created with V-Ray, plus tech breakdowns of the key projects.
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
Download free Maya object scattering tool Ecotope
Check out Polygonflow's scattering tool, available with the trial of its GraphN visual programming app.
Sunday, September 19th, 2021
Maxon ends perpetual licences of Red Giant products
New versions of Trapcode Suite, VFX Suite and Magic Bullet Suite available only via subscriptions.
Friday, September 17th, 2021