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Design, Detail and Animation: Creating Custom Clothing with Marvelous Designer

Nina Chernyshenko, a freelance digital artist from Ukraine, gives you the tools and tips to create 3D custom clothing for your portfolio, using Marvelous Designer.

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20 Amazing Projects That Bring Characters and Environments to Life with Marvelous Designer

Marvelous Designer is arguably the world’s most powerful solution for making, editing and reusing 3D clothes and cloth simulations.

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Game-Engine World Creation Using Unreal Engine and Cinema4D

Get inspired by how Senior designer at FOX Sports, Jesse Larson, is creating 3D Worlds straight out of fantasy movies, with Unreal Engine and Cinema4D.

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Sculpting and Scene Creation Using Adobe 3D Modeler

A welcome addition to the Adobe 3D Substance ecosystem, Substance 3D Modeler Beta is now available for use and the Adobe 3D team are looking for your valuable feedback and discussion around this new tool.

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Student Access to Houdini Education

If you are a student and looking to hone your craft using Houdini, the good news is that you now have access to Houdini Education. Read on to learn how to get started.

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To draw, or not to draw...on a tablet. That is the question.

So many tablets, so many models, and the decision for many traditional illustrators is which one to choose when embarking on their journey into digital content creation. In this article we look at Wacom's Cintiq Pro 16, it's features, and why you'll never look back!

Learning

Using the Right Workstation to Bring Your Creative Ideas to Life

The Rookie Awards is the best way to launch your career and start sharing your amazing work online, and doing it with the right workstation will help you bring more of your creative ideas to life.

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Is Cinema 4D Good For Beginners?

You're at school and you want to get started in Cinema 4D. Is it good for beginners? Or are you punching above your weight? The great news is, the learning curve is smooth and you can easily pick up the tools to get started on your creative journey.

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Inside ARTFX: Top International School of VFX, Cinema and Animation Opens a Brand New Campus

ArtFX, a top International School of VFX, Cinema and Animation, is opening a brand new campus you will want to study at.

Inspiration

How Lenovo is Working to Power Human Connections and Creativity

From real-time rendering to editing and designing, Lenovo is listening to the needs of the digital industries, and delivering a machine to power your amazing entries and portfolios.

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A Compact Desktop That Delivers on Performance: Dell's Precision 3650 Tower Workstation

Rookie Awards sponsor Dell, is giving away a Precision 3650 Tower Workstation with RTX A5000 GPU. Let's take a deeper look at how this compact desktop, packs a very big punch.

Careers

Launch Your VFX Career With a Winning Showreel

With years of experience behind them, Outpost VFX's talented artists and recruiters have built up expert tips and tricks on creating a winning showreel to help launch your career in VFX.

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What Graphics Card Should a 3D Artist Choose?

There are so many things to consider as you embark on your career in the creative industries - sourcing knowledge, acquiring skills that recruiters need, and having the right hardware to power your creativity.

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Using Multifunctional Tools Like 3ds Max to Bring Your Creative Ideas to Life

From intricate details on 3D characters and props to jaw-dropping environments and worlds, 3ds Max® software is the tool of choice for creating immersive game experiences and visualizing complex designs.

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ZBrush is Now Part of the Maxon Family

Cinema 4D has been powering Rookie Awards entries over the last few years, and now Maxon can also be proud of the entries that boast the use of ZBrush, with the official acquisition of the Academy Award-winning sculpting and painting software at the start of 2022.

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How Teradici is Securing the Hybrid Workplace and Learning Environment

Companies are turning away from VPN in favor of Zero Trust Architecture as hybrid workplaces and learning environments become the new norm.  To learn more about their findings, VMblog spoke with Teradici's distinguished technologist, Ian Main.

Learning

Real-time 3D Development Platform and Workflows: The Free Unity Student Plan

Access the real-time 3D development platform and workflows that professionals use to create immersive experiences across industries. Free for students.

Learning

Get Your Start in Creative Production With This New Learning Pathway from Unity

Unity's mission is to empower you to become a Unity creator and achieve your career or side-project goals. To help guide your self-learning, they have released the new Creative Core Pathway, free on Unity Learn.

Careers

How Do You Land a Job in VFX, Games and Animation?

CG Spectrum's Career Development Manager, Maxine Schnepf, talks about her role and how she has helped kickstart many a career in VFX, Games and Animation.

Careers

The Secrets Behind Specialist Jobs in Animation and VFX

UTS Animal Logic Academy, have put together a breakdown of some of the key specific industry roles, from industry pros, to help you prepare for your future job in Animation and VFX.

Software

30 Reasons Why V-Ray is a Powerhouse Rendering Solution

These days there is such a wide variety of 3D rendering software solutions available, each being unique in their own way. So when it comes to choosing a 3D rendering software to use, you need to take a range of factors into consideration to make sure you pick the best one for you.

Learning

Using Adobe Illustrator and Wacom Pen Tablets to Unleash Creativity

Learn about how to produce eye-catching designs and illustrations harnessing the power of Adobe Illustrator and your Wacom pen tablet.

Inspiration

The Power of the Dell Precision 5750 Workstation for Remote Designers

Remote Designer Lauren Smith, used to think that she had to choose between a lightweight, portable laptop and a huge, powerful rendering computer. Turns out, you can have both with Dell Precision 5750 workstation.

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Making Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality a Part of Remote Design Workflows

Whether you are a remote group of students working on a final year project, or a team of Indie Developers burning the midnight oil on a new game feature, Teradici has the technology to bring AR/VR to your remote workflows.

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How To Draw a Face of a Superhero-like Character with your Intuos Creative Pen Tablet

Darlene Nguyen from Rapid Fire Art shows us how to draw like superheroes with Wacom Intuos Tablets.