Free tool: P4Houdini builds version control into Houdini
Now available free, technical artist Paul Ambrosiussen's P4Houdini plugin integrates Houdini with Perforce's version control tech.
Thursday, July 25th, 2024
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Golaem releases crowd animation tool Golaem 9
Major update to the Maya crowds tool adds new workflows for creating shots without simulation, and a new UE5-style ML Deformer.
Thursday, June 6th, 2024
Autodesk buys Wonder Studio developer Wonder Dynamics
Maya developer snaps up the startup behind the much-discussed AI-based online VFX platform. Read our FAQs on the buyout.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
Unreal Engine 5.4: five key features for CG artists
Read our pick of the new features in UE5, from Motion Graphics Mode and modular character rigging to virtual production and VFX.
Monday, April 29th, 2024
Chaos unveils Project Arena
Upcoming virtual production toolset will let studios use existing V-Ray assets on LED walls with full ray tracing "without any preprocessing".
Friday, April 5th, 2024
Check out LATTE3D, NVIDIA's peppy new text-to-3D AI model
Current state-of-the-art AI model generates 3D assets from text prompts 'near instantly', even on a single previous-gen GPU.
Thursday, March 21st, 2024
New pricing for Unreal Engine, Twinmotion and RealityCapture
Epic Games has announced new subscription-based pricing for its key software products. See who the changes affect, and when they start.
Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
Reallusion releases iClone Unreal Live Link 1.3
iClone-to-Unreal Engine live link can now bake complete crowd animations to single sequences in Unreal Engine. Free for indie artists.
Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
Open-source VFX pipeline builder Prism 2.0 is now available
Promising tool lets you set up a USD-based VFX pipeline 'out of the box'. Works with Blender, Maya, Houdini, Nuke, UE5 and ZBrush.
Friday, November 3rd, 2023
VFX breakdown | The Wheel of Time Season 2 | Framestore
Check out Framestore's VFX breakdown of some of its 520 VFX shots from Season 2 of the Amazon Prime Video fantasy series.
Tuesday, October 24th, 2023
Epic Games to start charging to use Unreal Engine for VFX
UE5 to become a 'licensable piece of software like Maya and Photoshop' for non-games work like VFX, animation and visualization.
Thursday, October 5th, 2023
Epic Games lays off 16% of its employees, sells Bandcamp
But the firm 'continues to invest' in Unreal Engine, MetaHuman, Megascans, Twinmotion and RealityCapture, despite 830 job cuts.
Friday, September 29th, 2023
FAQs: Unity's new pricing and the Unity Runtime Fee
Latest planned 2024 pricing for the game engine relaxes the terms of the controversial new Unity Runtime Fee. Read our FAQs about the changes.
Monday, September 25th, 2023