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Author PBR materials in your browser with Material-Z.com
Create texture maps and GLSL shader code with Braindistrict's online service, now in free beta.
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See hotly tipped short ‘One Small Step’ at Gnomon in May
Discover how ex-Disney artists TAIKO Studios created their debut short at a free event at the school's LA campus.
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Red Giant releases Trapcode Suite 14.1 for After Effects
Free update to effects plugins GPU-accelerates Trapcode Form; adds DoF and IBL in Trapcode Mir.
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Vicon ships Shōgun 1.2
Now available: optical mocap firm's utility software gets SDI support, custom skeleton solving, plus live link to stream data directly to UE4.
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Marmoset ships Toolbag 3.04
Now available: big update to the real-time toolkit adds scores of new features for rendering, texture baking and the Marmoset Viewer.
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Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.7 for Nuke
Nuke edition of V-Ray gets support for progressive rendering and the V-Ray hair shader and sampler.
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Gnomon ships 3D Scan and Retopology for Production
New nine-hour tutorial provides a detailed guide to generating animatable character meshes via photogrammetry.
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Download a free Renderpeople animated character
Get a free animated female figure in 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and FBX formats. For commercial use.
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Get handy free VFX pipeline management tool Prism
Open-source app handles common asset and render management tasks. Integrates with Blender, Max, Maya, Houdini, Nuke.
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GIMP team ships GIMP 2.10
Landmark stable build of the open source image editor supports 32-bit linear workflow, adds new warping and foreground selection tools.
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Foundry unveils Athera, its new cloud-based VFX platform
Updated: new service aims to let users run a full VFX studio via a web browser. Pricing now revealed.
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ActionVFX halves price of all stock effects clips
VFX library's 2K practical effects clips now cost as little as $5; 4K to 6K fire and smoke cost $15-20.
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Sketchfab’s models of the month: April 2018
See the month's best real-time 3D models, from canine astronauts to stellar Horizon Zero Dawn fan art.
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Autodesk makes SketchBook free to download
Powerful sketching tool for concept design and illustration now free on Windows, OS X, Android and iOS.
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Boris FX makes Continuum VR Unit available free
Get this $199 set of plugins for editing 360° footage free until 31 May. Works in After Effects, Nuke, DaVinci Resolve.
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Abvent ships Artlantis 7
Architectural renderer gets adaptive anti-aliasing and improved light sampling, plus new Twinlinker app for creating online virtual tours.
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Autodesk ships Maya 2018.3 and Maya LT 2018.3
Maya itself gets new MASH motion graphics options, GPU-accelerated Wire deformer, but little new in LT.
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Unity 2018.1 is now shipping. Check out the highlights here
It's a huge update, so get up to speed faster with our run-down of the key features for CG artists.
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World Machine 3021 ships
Latest update to the terrain generator adds support for JPEG and EXR files and fixes a lot of long-standing workflow issues.
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Online documentation for V-Ray Next for Max goes live
Check out all the new features of the upcoming release, plus a demo of volume rendering on the GPU.
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