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Virtual production is here to stay, But, what does it mean? And how do we get the most out of it? Multi-award-winning VFX Supervisor and Creative Director, Øystein Larsen, talks us through the basics.

V-Ray and Corona still dominate market, but UE4, Twinmotion and D5 Render all gaining ground.

New two-part Gnomon Workshop tutorial sets out his approach to story development and concept art.

New free web-based production tracking tool provides a visual overview of a movie or animation.

See news of Autodesk's latest acquisition, Blender's latest backer, and a free glossary of virtual production terms.

Plugin for importing V-Ray scenes into Unreal Engine gets support for render relighting, skeletal meshes.

Neat add-on generates attractively stylised trees that can be exported to DCC apps or game engines.

Folio, a giant of the illustration world, launches its own in-house animation studio on 28 January 2022.

Unreal Engine plugin for the Atoms Crowd simulation system gets support for runtime variation and 'XPU animation'.

Optical illusions are like magic tricks waiting on the page. London-based animator and director Chris Cray talks us through the best ways to get them moving.

Quinton Qu's incredible feat of visual programming wins Adobe's 2021 Substance 3D Designer Insanity Award.

Material authoring tool gets new Physical Size system for scanned materials, new Cloth Weave filter.

Updated: New visual programming system for Maya and Unreal Engine now free for non-commercial use.

Architectural modelling app gets improved curve drawing, new search and tagging features, native support for Apple's M1 processors.