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Tutorial: Stylized Environment Creation for Games
Discover how to create assets for games with The Gnomon Workshop's new beginner's guide.
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.16
Update improves CPU rendering performance, adds render backplate system in 3ds Max, deformation motion blur in Blender.
Luiz Elias ships Mush 3D 2.0
Neat tool for sculpting and deforming animation caches from other DCC apps gets new FBX pipeline for use with game engines.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.3
Virtual reality modeling software gets new live Boolean preview and support for viewport ray tracing.
Epic Games releases MetaHuman Animator
Hotly tipped toolset can transfer facial motion from iPhone footage to a MetaHuman in Unreal Engine.
Watch amazing MetaHuman Animator demo Blue Dot
Photorealistic short shows the quality of facial performances provided by Epic Games' new UE5 mocap toolset.
Chaos releases V-Ray for Houdini Update 1
Check out the new features in the Houdini edition of V-Ray, like the TexBump2Glossiness node for materails like skin.
Animating First & Third-Person Shooter Attacks for Games
Master games animation in Maya with The Gnomon Workshop's new nine-hour step-by-step tutorial.
Continuum 2023.5 ships
Check up the new features in the popular suite of effects plugins, including a sizeable update to particle generator Particle Illusion.
Tutorial: Automating Animation & Game-Ready Rigs
Create your own modular rigging system in Python with The Gnomon Workshop's advanced tutorial.
Magma adds new ‘ethically responsible’ AI art tools
Browser-based art platform's new AI Assistant is based on Stable Diffusion, but offers AI tagging and prompt tracking.
Download 14 free destruction FX clips from ProductionCrate
Add debris to VFX and motion graphics projects with these HD stock effects. For commercial use.
Download 600+ free Unreal building and furniture models
Check out the games and arch viz assets available free on Unreal Engine marketplace this month.
Free tool Grassify adds grass to Blender models
Add fast-rendering animatable grass to any Blender model with this free Geometry Nodes set-up.
Autodesk ships Arnold 7.2.2
Update makes CPU renders on Intel, AMD and Apple CPUs perceptually identical, and edits to large scenes 'nearly instantaneous'.
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.6 for Blender
GPU renderer switches from OpenCL to HIP for final-quality output. Maya and Houdini editions also updated.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 13.0
Material authoring app gets a new set of Spline and Path tools, but its procedural geometry toolset has been removed.
Apple unveils 2023 Mac Pro
See how the first Apple Silicon Mac Pro workstation stacks up against old Intel models in After Effects, Maya, Houdini and Photoshop.
Apple unveils the M2 Ultra
See how 'the world’s most powerful chip ever created for a personal computer' performs with CG apps like Maya, Octane and Photoshop.
Tutorial: Creating assets for game environments
Build assets for UE5 environments using Maya, ZBrush and Substance 3D Painter with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.
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