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The Motion Awards 2023 Winners!
Motion Awards is not just a celebration; it’s a grand spectacle of creativity in the Motion Design community! Picking a winner from a sea of exceptional submissions across various areas and categories is no walk in the park.
JangaFX announces LiquiGen release date
Long-awaited real-time fluid simulation app enters alpha next month, with a wider release later this year. Find more details here.
Download the free Cascadeur Bridge for Blender
Áron Németh's open-source add-on speeds up workflow between the AI based animation app and Blender. Now includes batch import options.
See how Big Picture Studio de-aged Chow Yun-Fat for One More Chance
See how the studio created 3D facial replacements based on the Hong Kong action star's younger self for the 2023 comedy drama.
tyFlow 1.1 for 3ds Max adds new PRISM fracturing system
Check out the popular 3ds Max particle and multiphysics add-on's neat new GPU-accelerated mesh fracturing and Boolean system.
Adobe releases Photoshop 25.4
Check out the workflow improvements in the latest update to the image editing and digital painting software.
Get engon, polygoniq’s open-source Blender asset browser
Free add-on adds advanced filtering and scattering tools to Blender. You can get 80 free assets with it, including 3D plants and vehicles.
Polyqoniq releases botaniq 7.0 for Blender
Popular library of 3D plants updated to work with polygoniq's open-source engon asset browser. Download 38 of the assets for free.
Tutorial: Creating a Laser Sword for Games
Discover how to create AAA-quality assets for games with The Gnomon Workshop's guide to hard-surface modeling and texturing work.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.3
Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new Texture Generators to add procedural noise to materials. Perpetual licenses discontinued.
InstaMAT Studio is now available
Promising new app combines 3D texture painting, node-based material authoring and AI features. Free if you earn under $100k/year.
Check out Sébastien Garnier’s Sculpt & Fix toolbox for Blender
Movie character FX artist's $15 add-on helps users sculpt quick corrective fixes for common artifacts in character animations.
JangaFX releases EmberGen 1.1
See what's new in this big update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator, like the option to parent emitters to bones in characters.
Topaz Labs releases Gigapixel 7
AI-based app upscales images by up to 600% without losing detail, including 3D renders. Check out the changes in the latest release.
Free tool: MaterialVault for Unreal Engine
VFX and visualization artist Scott Rafferty's open-source plugin gives UE5 a single unified interface to browse, edit and apply materials.
Tutorial: Creating a Large-Scale Aerial Shot
Use OpenStreetMap data to create a procedural 3D environment in Houdini with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly guide.
BCorona 2.0 lets you render Blender scenes in Corona
Unofficial Blender integration for the Corona renderer gets support for Blender 4.0 and an automated converter for Cycles shaders.
Ynput releases Ayon 1.0
Open-source pipeline for VFX and animation work is now production-ready - and available in the cloud as well as to install locally for free.
Maxon releases Red Giant 2024.1
See the new features in the suite of effects plugins, including Magic Bullet 2024.1, Trapcode 2024.1, Universe 2024.1 and VFX 2024.1.
Auto-Terrainer 2 for Blender turns low-poly meshes into 3D terrain
Neat Geometry Nodes-based add-on turns low-poly guide meshes into detailed, customizable procedural 3D terrain. The base edition is free.