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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.
Download Autodesk’s free Maya 2024 Bonus Tools
Check out the changes to Autodesk's set of free add-ons for 3D modeling and UV editing, now updated to support Maya 2024.
Marvelous Designer creator wins Sci-Tech Academy Award
3D clothing design software creator Jaden Oh wins tech 'Oscar', along with the creators of open standards USD, OpenVDB and Alembic.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.6
VR sculpting tool's new Snake Hook mode makes it possible to create ultra-wiggly organic forms. Check out the other new features here.
VFX breakdown | The Buccaneers | Absolute
See how Absolute turned shots of a castle taken into October into a snowy winter landscape for Apple TV+'s period drama.
Download 12 free movie-inspired ‘Neural Looks’ for color grading
Get 12 AI-based looks for grading motion graphics or VFX projects, applied via the free Freelab plugin for After Effects and DaVinci Resolve.
Master Liquid Simulation in Houdini
Create art-directable simulations with The Gnomon Workshop's guide to Houdini's FLIP fluids and rigid body dynamics toolsets.
Check out Realtime’s shape-shifting VFX for Doctor Who
See a VFX breakdown of the strange shape-shifting creatures Realtime created for the UK sci-fi show's 60th anniversary special.
NVIDIA unveils three new GeForce RTX 40 ‘Super Series’ GPUs
See how the GeForce RTX 4070 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super and RTX 4080 Super outperform older cards in CG apps like Blender.
Free tool: sculpt stylized hair with custom ZBrush brush RenHair
Former Overwatch artist Renaud Galand's neat free custom brush sculpts subtly asymmetric strands of hair for stylized 3D characters.
Unity to lay off 25% of its staff
Firm to cut approximately 1,800 jobs in a bid to refocus on its core game engine and game tools business.
Get over 400 modular 3D assets for building fantasy environments
Get the Ithris Cemetery and Fantasy Bundle Environment Kit 3 in 1 packs free from the Unreal Marketplace this month. For commercial use.
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