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Master professional environment art workflows for games with Creating Realistic Cliff Materials Using Substance Designer, The Gnomon Workshop's detailed guide to procedural material creation

https://t.co/TnVDl205et

#Substance3DDesigner #UnrealEngine #gamedev @Gnomon_Workshop

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Check out Zero VFX's breakdown of its invisible effects for comedy horror series Widow's Bay

Watch the full video on the Zero VFX YouTube channel: https://t.co/t4voyc9mj8

#VFX #VFXbreakdown @zerovfx

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Check out Mr. X's VFX breakdown of Butcher's CG tentacles from Season 5 of The Boys

Watch the full video on the Mr. X YouTube channel (also shows destruction simulations and energy effects): https://t.co/af5CrV394G

#VFX #VFXbreakdown @_mrxfx

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Chaos has released V-Ray 7.4 for Maya

Check out changes to the #Maya edition of the renderer, including a 13% speed increase on Windows, support for AMD GPU #rendering, and better support for 3D Gaussian Splatting and #Bifrost

https://t.co/WOfQgESihb

#VRay #VFX #3DGS

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Check out Rodeo FX's breakdown of some spectacular sand simulation from Season 2 of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Watch the full video on the Rodeo FX YouTube channel: https://t.co/qI9viTabjy

#VFX #VFXbreakdown #simulation #RodeoFX

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Check out new realtime #VFX tool #ZibraGDS

Zibra AI's tech compresses geometry caches from complex offline liquid, destruction and cloth simulations by 'up to 92%' for #realtime #rendering inside #UnrealEngine

https://t.co/w5Y2HSSvJw

#simulation #UE5 @zibraai

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Free tool: check out #ByHand, @truongcgartist's promising new #digitalsculpting software

The #Sculptris like app promises fast, responsive claylike sculpting in a 'quiet, clean, distraction-free' interface

https://t.co/u46VoSByPS

#creaturedesign #characterdesign #gamedev #VFX

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Free tools: #AutoRemesher, @jeremyhu2016's cross-platform standalone #retopology app, turns high-poly 3D scans and sculpts into clean, low-poly, all-quad geometry

@adri_flex's bridge plugin connects it to #Blender

https://t.co/7d8AixHl4y

#3dmodeling #opensource #B3D

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Check out @imageworksvfx's narrated #VFXbreakdown for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, showing #lookdev for Silver Surfer's metallic skin

https://t.co/Ti7iq8NgEG

The full video shows facial capture with Digital Domain's #Masquerade system and tissue simulation with #AdonisFX

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#OctaneRender 2026.4 is out

Check out the new features in the GPU renderer, including support for the new Neural Radiance Cache on macOS and in network renders, and updates to 3D Gaussian Splatting

https://t.co/EmeoWyZkcK

#OctaneX #rendering #VFX #motiongraphics @otoy

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Reallusion just released #Headshot 3.1

The update adds a new 3D texture painting toolset to the AI-powered #CharacterCreator plugin for generating 3D digital doubles from reference photos

https://t.co/D3yp1YhAK1

#texturing #gamedev #VFX #motiongraphics @reallusion

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Check out FOLKS's VFX breakdown of its explosive effects for the armory fight sequence from Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again

Watch the full video on the FOLKS YouTube channel: https://t.co/LLha9tC1WJ

#VFX #VFXbreakdown @folksvfx

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Spot the differences: check out Framestore's VFX breakdown of its invisible effects from Season 2 of spy thriller series The Agency

Watch the full video on the Framestore YouTube channel: https://t.co/iLp1vIre8o

#VFX #VFXbreakdown @framestore

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Check out BlueBolt's VFX breakdown of its set extensions recreating 18th-century Savannah, Georgia from Season 8 of time-traveling fantasy series Outlander

Watch the full video (also shows the fire at the print shop): https://t.co/KDfs0qbQoH

#VFX #VFXbreakdown #BlueBolt

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Chewing the CG cud: check out rigging artist Farid Panah's demo of a detailed creature rig created for Asoo VFX's work on Indian fantasy action film 45

You can watch the full video in Farid Panah's LinkedIn post: https://t.co/8ENrgSHG0a

#VFXbreakdown #characterrigging #AsooVFX

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Free tutorial: master professional lighting workflows for games with Lighting Realistic Weather in Unreal Engine 5, Lightspeed LA Senior Lighting Artist Ted Mebratu's new masterclass for The Gnomon Workshop

https://t.co/WU8POxab7c

#gamedev #UnrealEngine #UE5 @Gnomon_Workshop

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New online tool Mixos lets you paint 4K PBR textures in your web browser

The WebGPU-powered app also makes it possible to create new materials by remixing a library of over 2,600 CC0 assets

https://t.co/vINKwdzcho

#Mixos #texturing #lookdev #gamedev

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Check out benuts' VFX breakdown of its invisible effects for historical crime drama series Paris Police 1910

Watch the full video on the benuts VFX Vimeo channel: https://t.co/6YSUEXAgxD

#VFX #VFXbreakdown @benutsvfx

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Looking for an alternative to the Ziva tools? Check out #Adonis 2.1

The major update to the soft tissue #simulation add-on for #Maya and #Houdini adds an anatomy transfer system and a new machine learning toolset

https://t.co/rXEIED3wle

#characterrigging #animation #VFX

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Nuke 17.1 is out in open beta

Check out the changes to Foundry's #compositing software, including support for relighting Gaussian splats and Hydra 2.0 support in the 3D viewer

https://t.co/9AwH7xtprS

#Nuke #NukeX #NukeStudio #VFX #motiongraphics @thefoundryteam