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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.
iToo Software releases Forest Pack 8.2.2 for 3ds Max
Check out the new features in the popular object scattering tool, including updates to ForestSets.
Epic Games releases RealityScan 1.1
Free iOS scanning app turns smartphone photos into 3D models. Check out its new features.
Polycam gets new AI-based 360 Capture system
Mobile 3D scanning app's new mode captures 360° environments on phones without 360° cameras.
Unity releases Unity 2022 LTS
Check out the key features for CG artists in the game engine's new Long Term Support release, including the new water system.
MxTools releases FormCutter 3.0 for 3ds Max
Interesting hard surface modelling add-on gets support for real-time cuts for quick shape exploration.
Chaos releases V-Ray for SketchUp Update 1
Check out the new features in the SketchUp edition of renderer, like cutaway rendering in V-Ray GPU.
Grease Pencil 3.0 is coming in Blender 4.0
Check out the changes planned for this major update to the open-source app's 2D animation toolset.
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