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Tutorial: Creating Cinematic Concept Art
Discover an efficient professional concept art workflow in Blender and Photoshop with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Get ProductionCrate’s three new free After Effects plugins
Crate's Unmult, Crate's Chromatic Aberration and Crate's Long Shadow streamline common tasks in VFX, motion graphics and CG work.
Download VFX artist David Llopis’s free Maya dragon rig
Get the DNEG Lead Animator's neat free creature rig, licensed for use in portfolio work, and supplied as a Maya MB scene file.
Chaos releases Enscape 4.2
Check out the new features in the real-time visualization software, including improvements to software ray tracing and Artistic Visual Modes.
Boris FX releases Continuum 2025
Set of effects plugins for video editing and compositing apps gets new AI-based motion blur filter and updates to Particle Illusion.
Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max
Latest major update to the renderer adds support for 3D Gaussian Splatting and luminaires, and updates V-Ray GPU and the VFB.
Check out Wonder Studio’s new Wonder Animation feature
New video-to-3D-scene system 'brings artists closer to producing animated films' as well as VFX with the AI online film-making platform.
Dimension 5 Techs releases D5 Render 2.9
GPU renderer and real-time visualization tool gets new terrain sculpting and phasing animation systems, plus 3D Gaussian Splatting.
10 subtle tricks to improve your character animation
Discover 10 things you can do today to improve your character animation work with DreamWorks animator Adrien Liv's expert tips.
Tutorial: Concepting & Illustrating a Sword for Games
Master professional concept design techniques in ZBrush, Blender and Photoshop with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Chaos releases Vantage 2.6
Real-time ray tracing renderer for large V-Ray scenes gets support for the V-Ray Clipper and a new Water Surface object.
Autodesk releases Flame 2025.2
Check out the new features in the compositing and effects software, including a new machine-learning-assisted Morph tool.
Color Intelligence releases Colourlab Ai 3 Creator and Pro
Updated: Pro edition of the AI color grading software includes ACES support and a new OFX plugin for integration with Nuke.
Physical Water FX adds good-looking water surfaces in Blender
Promising add-on creates surface water complete with ripples, foam, rain splashes and floating debris. Works with Cycles and Eevee.
CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 2024.2
Check out the new features in the 3D clothing design software, including improvements to its real-time simulation toolset.
Epic has made Megascans free to all – but only until the end of 2024
Read our FAQs on the pricing and licensing changes to the popular online library of 3D scans for games, VFX and visualization work.
Epic Games launches its new Fab marketplace
New 'open marketplace' replaces the Unreal Engine Marketplace and will replace the ArtStation and Sketchfab stores. Read our FAQs.
Check out VFX-focused AI video upscaling system Pixell
Currently free in beta: new web-based platform is geared towards VFX and post-production artists looking to upscale shots to 4K or 8K.
Free Nuke plugin Flow Warp bends images round custom paths
Compositing Academy's neat free VFX tool offers a simple way to create flows of energy and light, or art direct stock FX elements.
Creating a Character Bust: From Ideation to Final Render
Create a portfolio-worthy 3D character with Naughty Dog Senior Character Artist Colleen Larson's tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.
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