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Edge Decal Generator takes a geometry-first approach to a familiar hard-surface problem. Instead of requiring an artist to ...

EIZO's CS3200X brings 31.5-inch 4K, wide gamut, HDR, hardware calibration, USB-C, KVM and a hood to production desks for ...

Digital Anarchy resurrects its Ugly Box and Flicker Freak plugins just in time for Halloween. Free, frightful, and gloriously hideous. Subscribe to the free Digital Production newsletter! You will get ...

Autodesk’s Arnold 7.4.4 lifts hair realism, adds aperture-bloom modes and speeds global-light sampling. Worth a test in your next render? Subscribe to the free Digital Production newsletter! You will ...

lender 4.5 LTS arrives with studio-grade support; the Blender survey shows where users stand; and Blender 5.0 beta is already here, so its time to plan your upgrade. Subscribe to the free Digital ...

For those who don’t know the tool: CLO Virtual Fashion develops Marvelous Designer, a pattern-based 3D garment design and cloth-simulation application aimed at game, VFX and animation work, alongside ...

The basic interaction is simple. Open Command Frame with a shortcut, start typing and execute the matching action. That includes the obvious launcher jobs – plugins and so forth. Effects and presets ...

Gizmify Studios has expanded Media Plane from a video-reference playback tool into a small nonlinear editing system embedded in Maya. The significant addition is Media Plane Editor, an artist-facing ...

The best overall productions have been selected by a jury of experts. The winners are… Archive notice: This article was ...

My first contact with a Quantel Henry was during my training as a media designer for image and sound at Voss TV Ateliers in Düsseldorf at the end of the nineties. In addition to three Avids, a ...

Four months with EIZO’s 30.5-inch DCI-4K flagship reveal a superbly uniform, silent IPS monitor that leaves very little room for excuses. Monitor tests usually begin with a spec sheet, a colourimeter, ...