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Check out the new features in former Lucasfilm developer Darby Johnston's open-source image viewer for VFX and animation work.

Check out DNEG's making-of for the spacecraft, lunar landscapes and orbital flyovers the studio created for the alternate-history sci-fi series.

Check out the specs for Apple's 'most powerful chip ever', and see how it performs in CG applications like Nuke and Redshift.

See how Framestore created a deadly CG killing machine informed as much by dinosaurs as robots for the military sci-fi action film.

Context-aware add-on turns both organic characters and hard-surface models into clean quad geometry, preserving vertex positions.

Check out Important Looking Pirates' making-of for the new Star Wars movie, including environments and CG character Zeb Orellios.

Check out the changes to the 3D clothing design app, including new tools for painting wrinkles into fabric - and ripping it apart along seams.

See how the VFX studio created expansive Martian landscapes and the spectacular explosion of the K-Station for the Apple TV sci-fi drama.

Check out the week's other updates to CG tools, including updates to Postshot, Meshy, and Slapshot and Topaz Labs' AI-powered VFX tools.

Create environments for VFX and game cinematics using Blender, Photoshop and Nuke with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.

Updated: see making-ofs for the sci-fi series from Framestore and Rodeo FX, plus Outpost VFX's spectacular shots of the robot Demerzel melting.

Check out the changes to the compositing software, including relighting Gaussian splats and Hydra 2.0 support in the 3D viewer.

See a VFX breakdown for the Victorian era mystery drama, from subtle invisible effects to sequences visualizing Enola's thoughts.

New iOS app generates 3DGS scans of objects and environments entirely on your phone, without cloud processing. The base app is free.

Discover how the studio created custom solvers to attach CG barnacles to the surface of the Sirens for the fantasy TV series.

New site shows real-world pay data for jobs in VFX, animation, games and motion graphics, submitted anonymously by other users.

Check out benuts' VFX breakdown for the cop comedy - from stunts and gunfire to an eye-replacement for a cartoon aubergine costume.

$6 app collects visual reference for art, animation and motion graphics projects into organized boards, and can import and step through videos.

Check out ReDefine's making-of for the tank combat sequences, some visceral, recreating events from the 1971 India-Pakistan war.

See the week's other updates to CG tools, like V-Ray 7.4 for Cinema 4D, Storm HydroFX 1.5, and free motion graphics tool Autograph 2026.1.