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Version 7.0 of Multiverse | USD released!
You want the "Universal Scene Description" for Autodesk Maya? Then it might be worth taking a look at this great tool from J Cube!
Version 5.7 of the CryEngine released!
A cry for love (and more graphics power?): New version of the popular graphics framework released - after more than two years of waiting!
Frame.io now also available in Adobe’s Creative Cloud!
Work more efficiently with the video collaboration platform Frame.io. Plus: Adobe presents innovations for After Effects and Premiere Pro.
Speed up the ageing process with this ZBrush tool!
Not afraid of furrows and wrinkles (on your skin)? Then download this ZBrush tool now and never waste money on moisturisers again!
Nuke 13.2 released!
The final release of the Nuke 13 product line: NewTek Network Device Interface (NDI), OpenTimelineIO (OTIO), Machine Learning - but is Nuke ready for Unreal Engine 5?
Princely spring fever: Maxon One is in bloom!
Maxon's "Spring 2022 Launch Event" announces new features for many of the most popular DCC tools - including Cinema 4D, Redshift and Red Giant! Is the all-round carefree package "Maxon One" now even more attractive?
Animated feast for the eyes | Animago Afternoon
Have you already booked your next dental cleaning with your trusted dental hygienist? This award-winning trailer for "Ryse: Son of Rome" takes you back to a time when dental care was still a foreign concept.
Animation fun “Ron’s Gone Wrong” at the FMX 2022!
In addition to the animated film, you can also look forward to talks on "Dune", "Encanto" and "Sing 2". But: How were the soundscapes from "The Book of Boba Fett" actually created?
You’ll never guess what this fantasy castle was made of!
The freelance concept artist from Iran goes for a walk - and stumbles across something that should inspire him to create an ingenious Blender project..
Procedural Textures & Geometry Nodes | Tutorial Tuesday
In this tutorial series, procedural textures heat up the hamburger frying. Delicious learnings with Blender!
Lost Illusions | VFX Breakdown
Like a wild bull (with fountain pen): Experience the classic novel by Honoré de Balzac as a romantic drama - and with VFXs from MPC Episodic.
Animated feast for the eyes | Animago Afternoon
Yes, is it Christmas already? Rubbish! In the French advertising short film, sugar sherbet and a teddy bear help to get Christmas on track.
Over 150 free plugins available for 3ds Max 2023!
149- and 1-times-useful happiness for users: Plugin developer Dave Baker offers you the full load of plugin power!
Hot & Trending auf Maxons Spring Launch Event!
Spring fever at Maxon: On Wednesday, 20 April, new additions to Maxon's product family will be announced! Will you be there?
Blende(r)nde’s educational programme | Tutorial Tuesday
This Twitter user offers you clear tutorials on topics such as inverse kinematics, environment design, rigging and grooming. It's worth a click!
Lost in Space | VFX Breakdown
They just want to play: Robo-phobics should click away from the series finale of "Lost in Space".
Winners of the BAFTA Games Awards 2022 announced!
And daily greetings... perhaps the best third-person shooter of the year? The sci-fi actioner "Returnal" won over the judges - which other titles were able to dust off prize trophies?
Brand new degree programme at the Film University Konrad Wolf!
With the part-time Master's degree programme "European Film Business and Law" to a "Master of Laws" or "Master of Business Administration" - or a double degree!
Tree generator with Blender 3.2
The Twitter community is amazed: Bagattini Antoine, architecture aficionado and Blender enthusiast, plants trees in the viewport.
Festival offers suitable for children at the ITFS!
The Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film knows how to inspire with film and workshop offers for the little ones (and their adult followers): Film premieres, open-air cinema and more at the "Tricks for Kids"!
New version of Ziva released!
Dino-like strength: Ziva VFX is released in version 2.0. If you want to flex your muscles with Allosaurus and co. you should take a look at this Maya plugin.
What does it really take to make it as a VFX artist?
How do young talents find the ideal path - to a successful visual effects career? Career tips from the on-set supervisor of Rainbow Six, Call of Duty & Co.
Here JangaFX demonstrates its fire effects!
Fire, explosions and other bang effects: In this video, developer EmberGen ignites enthusiasm for particle simulation tools. Get infected now!
Animated feast for the eyes | Animago Afternoon
After community and FFP2 masks, is the full-face respiratory protection mask coming? Rubbish! Urban art dominates the French short film "Atome" - not Covid!
Create realistic grasses with Unity!
For all artists with a soft spot for the grass mat: this geometry shader for Unity's Universal Pipeline will turn your thumbs green!
Capturing Reality in Houdini
Review: In DP 02 : 2019, we take a closer look at photogrammetry in Houdini. Our Houdini expert clarifies whether this has resulted in a production boost for game developers.
Pilgway releases 3DCoat 2022.16!
The multifunctional wonder bag among the DCC tools? Digital sculpting, UVs, PBR texturing, painting, rendering and low-poly modelling - what can version 2022.16 not (yet) do?
League of Legends: Arcane | Tutorial Tuesday
Do you also think "blue is a warm colour"? Then sharpen up Blender 3.0 and the Eevee renderer now - and shave like series heroine Jinx with this sleek tutorial!
Vivi – Full of life | VFX Breakdown
No, that's not a hipster monkey with a straw hat. This is Vivo, the swaddling bear, with a licence to be a love ambassador - and with a straw hat on his head.
Plant a jungle with Blender’s geometry node!
This motion designer on Twitter shows you how to decorate your nature environments with curved tree formations in no time at all!
“The Bad Guys”: celebrities as amateur artists?
Not an April Fool's joke (but somehow it is): Marc Maron and Sam Rockwell try their hand at being artists. How do comedians and actors do at the drawing board?
The owner of Rise talks about VFX entrepreneurship
This is also part of entrepreneurship: the boss as a hotline. In other words, why does Rise use humorous memes for its marketing? And what does this have to do with VFXs?
Animated feast for the eyes | Animago Afternoon
Chase with modelling gum and mini-Transformer. In the short film "Superbot" it's "chewing gum ball vs. robot man"! And at the end: cuddling with modelling clay?
Generate books (shelves) with this Houdini add-on
For a mere 15 US dollars you can create procedural book shelves - with "Houdini's BooKit - Creative Procedural Library"!
Ubisoft tool makes creature rigging easier
Ubisoft LaForge is developing the "ZooBuilder" tool. In future, you will be able to record the movements of animals - without any motion capturing!
The Oscar-nominated Netflix film is coming to FMX 2022!
Had enough of screen time? Then let's go to face-to-face time! The hybrid event features the animated film "The Mitchells vs. the Machines" and tech talks galore!
Man of Steel | Tutorial Tuesday
Your kryptonite of the day: 3ds Max and After Effects are already open? Perfect! Then why don't you hold Superman's cape while the Kryptonian makes his landing?
Lost in Space | VFX Breakdown
In the face of robotics: the robots from the final season of the popular sci-fi series rumble and rattle and clatter here!
Visual Effects at the 94th Academy Awards!
The Arakis worm in the VFX pipeline is going crazy: "Dune" is the big VFX winner at this year's Academy Awards. "Encanto" wins the award for best animated feature film!
Neues Blender-Add-on: Perspective Plotter
For architects and artists: With this cost-conscious add-on, you can transform 2D objects into 3D objects - and do so very conveniently.
Version 1.1.4 of “das element” released!
Is the future of asset management coming from Munich? The new version offers incremental improvements that will fuel your asset organisation mania!
And here comes the new DP!
In the spring issue (DP 02:2022), we let the asset manager hang out, because with the two super tools "Dropbox Replay" and "das element", asset shuffling in VFX studios could finally outgrow its infancy!
Animated feast for the eyes | Animago Afternoon
Are you a board game fan? The French short film "My Dear Gnome" will make your laugh muscles sore - and with a board game on top!
Music of the future at Nvidia’s GTC conference
VFX triad at the GTC: "Adobe Substance 3D enters into marriage with Nvidia's Omniverse", "Artist collaborations worldwide with Omniverse Cloud" and "Improved rendering on Nvidia's online platforms".
Reinforcing wall | Workshop report Wednesday
What looks like a game of Tetris is actually a pretty wall (created with Substance 3D Designer). Get your daily dose of inspiration here!
My Dear Gnome
Review: In DP 06 : 2016, the animated short film "My Dear Gnome" impressed with a humorous board game of checkers. We spoke to the two makers.
Denoising mit Arnold | Tutorial Tuesday
If you want to learn how to create pristine white rooms - without any annoying image artefacts - then you should fire up Autodesk Maya now.
How does the ACES work?
Anyone interested in the Academy Color Encoding System or colour correction should watch this short video.
Loki | VFX-Breakdown
Industrial Light & Magic conjures up the powerful visual effects of the hit series!
3DF Zephyr 6.5 is released
Do you want to enter the world of photogrammetry in a cost-conscious way? Then you should take a look at the software from 3Dflow.
How does texturing and shading work for spaceships?
How do you create Millennium Falcons, Battlestar Galactica or other space bolides professionally in Blender? This breakdown will help!
Cinema 4D plugin for procedural plants
In the sneak peek, product developer Insydium makes you curious about how you could grow plants and trees in the future.
What do VFX recruiters expect from applicants?
In this episode of 21 Artist Show, Animal Logic's Recruitment Supervisor chats about applications - and how up-and-coming talent gets their foot in the door of the industry.
RS Build Kit 2 released
With this Python tool for Autodesk Maya, you can perform powerful mesh, layout, import, export and curve operations.
Cars of the Future | Wettbewerb
In this competition for 3D designers, organised by Hum3D, you can envision the car of the future. Many valuable software licences await the winners!
Animated feast for the eyes | Animago Afternoon
This is where Jean-Claude Van Damme fans will prick up their ears: the half-hour film "Kung Fury" is an 80s trash titan par excellence!
Bforartists 3.1 is released
The popular Blender fork follows suit: The release of Blender 3.1 is now followed by Bforartists 3.1, making the user interface more useful!
World of Warcraft | Workshop Report Wednesday
If you want to decorate fantasy worlds with your art design, you should start up Autodesk Maya and Marmoset Toolbag 3 now!
Blender 3.1 is released!
The latest version of the open-source 3D software shines with new features - for Cycles Renderer, Point Cloud Objects and much more.
Infinity Bookshelf | Tutorial Tuesday
Are you at a loss as to how to achieve the sensational bookshelf effect from Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar"? Then open Blender now!
Foundation | VFX Breakdown
With great power comes great responsibility (for Rodeo FX): Will the long-established VFX studio succeed in rendering the novel world of Isaac Asimov?
These are the winners of the 20th VES Awards!
Which films are among the winners of this year's Visual Effects Society awards? Were the hopefuls "Dune" and "Encanto" able to convince?
Version 1.6 of PhotoInsight released
Simply drag and drop 3D objects into the Unity Editor? The beta version of the popular asset manager promises this and more!
Deepfake with Autodesk Maya!
Want to shock your audience at the next video conference with a lifelike Tom Cruise mask? Then fire up Maya now and download DeepFace Live!
Comic-like crystals grow in Unity!
Indie game developer Sørb amazes his Twitter followers: How were these stylish comic crystals created?
Leave your home country for a VFX career?
Aiming for an international career in the VFX industry? Victor Perez is a freelance visual effects supervisor from Spain who now works in the UK. How did he manage the transnational balancing act?
Animated feast for the eyes | Animago Afternoon
Terry Pratchett fans will love this short film! The Moldovan "Simpals Animation Studio" teaches the Grim Reaper how to surf!
Discover the International Festival of Animated Film!
With a competition between young animators, female power from the industry, but also the inventor of Wallace & Gromit, the festival attracts visitors to Stuttgart. Will you be there?
3D artist creates water simulation in Blender
A beach holiday from the Blender pipeline? With the Flip Fluids and Botaniq add-ons, you can create your own little spot in the sun.
Programme highlights for FMX 2022 published!
The (canine) FMX mascot goes crazy in the pan: "Eternals" and "What if...?" from Marvel, but also the aesthetically valuable Netflix film "The House" await you - and everything about the wonderfully complex world of NFTs!
Ofenritter | Workshop Report Wednesday
Knight of passion (with Blender and Substance 3D Painter)! Heat up your creativity on the Belarusian 3D artist's project - and improve your texturing skills at the same time.
Large inlays | Tutorial Tuesday
Red alert with 3ds Max? Not if art director and concept artist Arrimus 3D gives you the green light.
Jungle Cruise | VFX Breakdown
If only Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski knew: Rising Sun Pictures plays the Amazon with wet VFXs.
Conveniently create stop-motion animation in Blender
Step by step to the stop trick: Blender developers show you what to expect with Claymation.
The droplet generator makes it moist and cheerful
Blender artists know where water flows: Over tin cans, salty over the skin or fruity on apple peels. What can the Droplet Generator do?
Sophia Zauner becomes new professor at the ifs
Character TD is now leading the "3D Animation for Film and Non-linear Media" Master's programme at the International Film School Cologne.
Create realistic liquids with Blender add-on
Want to generate real water droplets along a curve? Simply download the free add-on - and fire up Blender 3.1!
Interview about the company history of “Pacific Data Images”
Company founder Carl Rosendahl chats about his VFX company PDI, visual effects in the 90s and 0s - and the legendary company's memento mori in 2015.
Animated feast for the eyes | Animago Afternoon
If pensioners, then sprightly? The French short film "Escarface" knows the antidote to poverty in old age - and could inspire a bank robbery.
Blog entry announces new Blender Sculpting features
What features can users expect with Blender 3.2 and 3.4? Above all, innovations in terms of sculpting and the real-time renderer Eevee! And what else?
Maxon announces its events for 2022
What to expect: Guides to the newly acquired ZBrush tools, a possible return to face-to-face events, fascinating lecturers and more - always with Cinema 4D & Co
With the open source Open Brush 1.0 you can scribble in virtual space
Anyone looking for a 3D sketching tool should take a look at Icosa Gallery. But what does it have to do with Google's Tilt Brush?
Rediscover the Disney-Pixar classic “Upstairs” now!
In this wonderfully silly video, the flying house from "Upstairs" takes off on a musical flight of fancy - with Lego optics, created in Cinema 4D.
Robot gripper arms | Tutorial Tuesday
Doc Ock is your favourite villain in the MCU, and Inspector Gadget your role model? Then click on this Blender tutorial!
Venom: Let there Be Carnage | VFX Breakdown
Facts, facts and more facts (in number): 12 is still too low, because you can expect 1003630198099968 bytes of hard facts for the Tom Hardy superhero hunt.
Arri Media is now called Pharos – The Post Group
Relaunch or just renaming? Arri Media shines with a new name that should be a beacon for filmmakers. What opportunities await you?
Blender Artist develops generator for battered buildings
If you want to know how to use Blenders Geometry Nodes to make wooden huts fall apart, you should click on this CG Generalist.
ActionVFX provides you with free snow textures
Virtual snow shovelling is your hobby? Then skim the 49-piece texture collection in 2K now. Can you already hear the snow crunching?
How does procedural modelling work in Unity?
Want to improve your game development skills with Unity? Then you should follow this Twitter profile!
The Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg researches sustainable filmmaking
How can green producing avoid becoming a mere empty phrase in the creative industry? Can virtual production reduce CO₂ emissions?
THQ Nordic takes over Metricminds
The masterminds from Frankfurt fraternising with the Nordic Viennese? Will this lead to a clash of cultures - or simply to better games?
Animated feast for the eyes | Animago Afternoon
Can graffiti be love? The US short film "Canned" stumbles, jumps and hurls towards a romance. Always on board: beautiful street art.
HDR displays from Atomos synergise with Panasonic’s Lumix GH6!
If you couple the Ninja V and Ninja V HDR displays with your Lumix, you can rely on brilliant ProRes-Raw!
Retopology Guide | Tutorial Tuesday
Can retopology be blonde (blended)? With these instructions from blender veteran Grant Abbitt, yes!
Matrix Resurrections | VFX Breakdown
The battle between man and machine continues: can the Wachowskis revive the Matrix - and is Digital Domain helping out?
Image editing at Hollywood level with Optics 2022?
Is this just window dressing, or does the Boris FX tool live up to its promise of over 1,500 particle templates?
Download USD Island Paradise from the Disney film Moana now
South Pacific beaches are beyond your travel budget? Then take a trip to Motunui Island now with this USD download.
See through with this eye rig
Who wouldn't want to use Blender 3.1 to expand their eyeball collection? The artist Max Edge makes you beautiful (and corneous) eyes.
Lightworks 2022 editing software is released
Are you looking for price-conscious film editing software? Then the Lightworks range might be worth a look (and a click).
Childhood dreams come true with the Model Builder!
Have you always wanted to put home-made Transformers, lightsabers and other sci-fi memorabilia on your shelf? Then try out this game now.