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Download Grease Pencil V2 for Windows
Grease Pencil turns Blender into a free, bones-based 2D animation toolset. Try the new version here.
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Get an inside guide to the art of The Force Awakens
Star Wars matte painter Nick Hiatt shares his secrets at a free event at Gnomon's LA campus this Saturday. Watch free online.
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The Foundry ships Cara VR
Updated: New plugin toolset for Nuke aims to tackle key problems of creating virtual reality content. See the full feature set and pricing here.
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Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Modo
New native Modo version of renderer uses same core tech as Max and Maya versions, but costs $340 less.
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FurryBall RT 1.3 ships, adds new free ‘Credit version’
Updated: Just logging in now gives you up 30 free hours of rendering a month, even for commercial jobs.
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Anastasiy releases MagicPicker 5.0
Neat Photoshop/Illustrator colour wheel plugin now gives users power to colorize text and vector shapes inside Photoshop.
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Point Render recreates Dürer and Doré in Houdini
Now shipping: Chimney VFX artist Jan Białek's Houdini plugin renders 3D models in striking classical graphic styles.
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Pilgway releases 3D-Coat 4.7
Big update to voxel sculpting and painting package adds 'completely remade' PBR shading system, plus neat new low-poly retopology tools.
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How to create hyper realistic ZBrush characters
See WWE lead character artist Hossein Diba sculpt Stone Cold Steve Austin in Gnomon's new ZBrush masterclass.
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Download Joost Vanhoutte’s free textures and cutouts
Updated: Get 50 foliage cutouts, over 1,800 texture reference images, and 111 new free stone textures.
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Get 20 free smoke plume and 10 dust wave FX clips
Download them in 2K resolution from new stock practical effects footage site ActionVFX. Licensed for commercial use.
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AlphaVFX ships BulletFX 4
Fast-evolving 3ds Max multiphysics plugin gets revamped FLIP fluid, cloth and FEM solvers, better V-Ray support, plus more streamlined UI.
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Ephere releases Ornatrix for Maya
Popular 3ds Max hair plugin now out for Maya. Supports Nucleus physics and Arnold, V-Ray, Redshift and RenderMan rendering.
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Cryptomatte automatically pulls ID mattes from renders
Psyop's cool open-source tech creates mattes with DoF and motion blur built in. Works with Maya, Arnold and Nuke pipelines.
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PipelineFX introduces metered licensing for Qube!
Rent licences of the renderfarm manager on the fly; pay per minute at a rate equivalent to $0.10/hour.
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Review: Iray for 3ds Max
Jason Lewis benchmarks the new, more powerful plugin version of Nvidia's GPU-based renderer with a range of real-world graphics cards.
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Come to Substance Days at Gnomon next week
See three days of 3D texturing masterclasses from firms like Naughty Dog at Gnomon next week. Watch free online.
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The Foundry releases beta of Katana for Windows
Katana 2.5 makes the heavyweight lighting and look dev tool available to non-Linux users for the first time.
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DNA Research ships beta of 3Delight for Katana
RenderMan-compliant production renderer gets new Katana edition with improved support for OSL.
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Side Effects cuts Houdini educational pricing
Education edition now available to colleges for $75/year, and free to high schools and instructors.
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