Maxon releases public beta of Redshift RT
New hybrid rasterisation/ray tracing mode provides a high-quality real-time preview of Redshift scenes.
Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
visual effects
hdRstr ray traces thousands of area lights in real time
Neat Maya and Houdini add-on lets you edit ultra-complex lighting set-ups interactively in the viewport.
Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
New Blender 3.0 release date announced
Milestone update to the open-source 3D software now due for a stable release early in December.
Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
Discover how to create a lighting template in Katana
Get started with the lighting and look dev software with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed introductory tutorial.
Saturday, September 4th, 2021
Alexey Vanzhula releases Soft Boolean for Houdini
Real-time Boolean modelling toolkit can also be used inside apps that support Houdini Engine, like Maya.
Friday, September 3rd, 2021
Get Adobe's Substance and Mixamo plugins for Blender
Updated: new free plugin for editing Substance materials inside Blender now also works on Linux.
Wednesday, September 1st, 2021
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.27
See our pick of UE4's new features, from more in-camera visual effects tools to multi-GPU lightmap baking.
Monday, August 23rd, 2021
Master the art of grooming CG hair in XGen
Create hair for a male character in Maya's XGen toolset with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Sunday, August 22nd, 2021
Silhouette 2021.5 ships
Boris FX's roto and paint software gets new color correction and grading features. Now available as a plugin for Nuke and After Effects.
Thursday, August 19th, 2021
3d-io ships Unwrella 4 for 3ds Max and Maya
Free update to the UV unwrapping tool adds neat UV packing system and Projection unwrapping mode.
Thursday, August 12th, 2021
Nvidia unveils new Substance 3D plugin for Omniverse
Just one of a new round of updates to Nvidia's collaboration platform to be announced at Siggraph 2021.
Tuesday, August 10th, 2021
Master creature grooming techniques in Houdini
Learn to style digital hair and fur with The Gnomon Workshop's guide to current VFX workflows.
Monday, August 9th, 2021
Download Howler 2020 free
Get the last-but-one version of the digital painting, video processing and animation app for free, and donate to fund future development.
Sunday, August 8th, 2021