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Greyscalegorilla now available for ‘all major 3D software’
Formerly Cinema 4D-only library of materials, models and HDRIs now also available for apps including Blender, Houdini and Unreal Engine.
Tutorial: Creating Stopmotion Felt in Substance 3D Designer
Get to grips with the powerful procedural material-authoring software with The Gnomon Workshop's artist-friendly guide.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 9.1
3D texture painting and material authoring software gets SVG import, new drag and drop workflows, and better handling of translucency.
Move AI releases Move One
Much-anticipated new iOS app lets you use Move AI's markerless mocap technology on video captured on a single iPhone.
Reallusion launches AccuFace
New GPU-accelerated AI mocap add-on for iClone extracts facial motion data from video in real time. Works with consumer webcams.
Łukasz Czyż releases UVPackmaster 3.2 for Blender
GPU-accelerated UV packing plugin gets new UV tracking and stacking systems. Now available for Windows, Linux and macOS.
Tutorial: Dynamic Effects Animation for Games
Create a VFX sequence of a character dissolving using Unreal Engine, Houdini and Photoshop with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.
Open-source VFX pipeline builder Prism 2.0 is now available
Promising tool lets you set up a USD-based VFX pipeline 'out of the box'. Works with Blender, Maya, Houdini, Nuke, UE5 and ZBrush.
Skybox AI to get automatic NeRF generation capabilities
Browser-based generative AI platform could soon generate complete 360° game environments from text prompts or sketches.
Foundry releases Katana 7.0
Heavyweight lighting and look dev software gets new Native USD framework to power up USD workflows. Live Rendering now 'up to twice as fast'.
VFX breakdown | The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon | MPC
Discover how MPC transformed Paris into a post-apocalyptic city with its VFX for the latest series in The Walking Dead universe.
Animation breakdown | TMNT: Mutant Mayhem | Cinesite
See Cinesite's breakdown of some of the 21 minutes of animation it produced for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.
PSOFT releases Pencil+ 4.05 Line for Blender
Add-on brings the outline rendering toolset used on anime movies to the open-source 3D app. Now supports viewport rendering and EPS export.
Tutorial: Creating Key Illustrations for Videogames
Discover how to create compellling marketing images for games in SketchUp and Photoshop with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Download Eisko’s free rigged 3D male character ‘FreakyHoody’
High-res character based on scans of France's most tattooed man comes as a UE5 project with 8K PBR textures and a MetaHuman rig.
Find free Blender resources and tutorials at BlenderNation Bazaar
Find assets for the open-source 3D software in top Blender news site BlenderNation's curated directory of models, add-ons and training.
New Rookies rankings reveal the world’s best CG schools in 2023
Discover which colleges were named the best for 3D animation, game art, visual effects, and overall world's best creative school.
Check out this procedural bird generator for Blender
Blenderesse's neat add-on generates animated 3D birds for use in the backgrounds of animations or motion graphics. Now free in beta.
VFX breakdown | Barbie | UPP
Check out the Czech VFX studio's making-of for its (largely) invisible effects from the live-action Barbie movie.
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2023.1
Check out the new features in the GPU production renderer, and the current state of the Octane 2023 product roadmap.
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