Master texturing for production in Mari and Maya
Discover key texturing techniques for visual effects with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.
Thursday, May 27th, 2021
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Check out Maya cloth tearing plugin TearKnit FX
Animate torn cloth without simulation with this unusual procedural geometry-based tool.
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
Intel releases Open Image Denoise 1.4
Check out this major update to the CPU-based render denoising system used in Blender and Unity.
Monday, May 24th, 2021
Download the free Maya 2022 Bonus Tools
Get Autodesk's handy free set of Maya add-ons, now with real-time Boolean modelling tool Speed Cut.
Thursday, May 20th, 2021
Get ZBrushCoreMini 2021: the new free edition of ZBrush
Free non-commercial edition of ZBrush gets new sculpting brushes and now renders turntable movies.
Wednesday, May 19th, 2021
Insydium buys Terraform4D
Promising art-directable Cinema 4D terrain-generation plugin was just five months old when the X-Particles creators snapped it up.
Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
Check out neat free Houdini sparse GPU fluid solver Axiom
Updated: See what's new in Build 6 of the GPU-based alternative to Houdini's own Sparse Pyro solver.
Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
Isotropix ships Clarisse 5.0
Big update to the look dev and rendering tool adds USD exporter, Arnold-compatible material and intuitive new lighting workflows.
Wednesday, May 5th, 2021
Check out Introduction to Creature Design
New Gnomon Workshop tutorials set out key workflows for sketching and colouring creature concepts.
Monday, May 3rd, 2021
Epic Games buys ArtStation
Top online portfolio service will stay open to non-games artists and Unreal Engine users. Sales fees on ArtStation Marketplace reduced.
Sunday, May 2nd, 2021
AWS launches Amazon Nimble Studio for VFX and animation
New service lets users set up a complete production studio in the cloud. See the price, specs and supported software.
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
Deadline is now free to use on up to 10 render machines
AWS's popular renderfarm manager now runs in Licence Free Mode on farms with 10 Render Workers.
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
Eye candy: Maxon's 2021 reel
See amazing new motion graphics and VFX created with Cinema 4D and Redshift, then follow our links to breakdowns of the key projects.
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021