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08/10/2026

Check out Dexter Studios' VFX breakdown for offbeat Korean superhero comedy The WONDERfools, including the contents of a scrapyard being flung around by telekinesis. The full breakdown also shows a CG heart, a giant CG cockroach - and even a giant inflatable CG onion covered in people, Katamari Damacy-style: https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/see-dexter-studios-vfx-breakdown-for-the-wonderfools/

08/09/2026

New CG software you may missed: 9 August 2026. Check out our round-up of the week's updates to key CG tools, including:

• Animation retargeting in Character Control Rig for
• Faster dense point cloud generation in
• Better simulation upresing and retiming in for

https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/the-week-in-cg-9-august-2026/

08/09/2026

Free tutorial: Design Mechs in VR Using Substance 3D Modeler. Discover virtual reality sculpting workflows for concept art and hard surface design with WB Games Advanced Concept Artist Andre-Lang Huynh's free tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.

https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/free-tutorial-design-mechs-in-vr-using-substance-3d-modeler/

08/07/2026

Check out Barnstorm VFX's breakdown of One Piece Season 2, including this icy climbing sequence. Watch the full video on the Barnstorm VFX Vimeo channel: https://vimeo.com/1214706426

08/06/2026

Cascadeur 2026.2 is out. It's a varied update to the AI-assisted character animation software, adding a long-awaited animation layers system, easing controls for interpolation, and updates to AI inbetweening and motion generation.

https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/nekki-releases-cascadeur-2026-2-with-animation-layers/

08/06/2026

Standalone character rigging tool Armature is free to indie users. Games artist Adrian Melian's AI-powered app rigs and skins 3D characters and creatures and exports a USD file for use in apps like Maya, Unreal Engine and Blender. Maya users can also generate a control rig.

https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/armature-is-a-free-ai-assisted-standalone-character-rigging-tool/

08/06/2026

Photoshop 27.9.1 is out. Check out the latest features in Adobe's image editing software, including updates to the Remove tool and the option to save and restore font lists, plus a fix for a critical bug from Photoshop 27.9.

https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/adobe-releases-photoshop-27-9-1/

08/06/2026

Check out FutureWorks' VFX breakdown of Indian mythological fantasy epic Kantara: A Legend - Chapter 1, including these CG horses towing a wagon through a blazing ruin

Full video and more info: https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/see-futureworks-vfx-breakdown-for-indian-epic-kantara-chapter-1/

08/05/2026

World Creator developer BiteTheBytes has unveiled Material Creator, a promising new node-based material authoring tool that it describes as a 'true alternative' to Substance 3D Designer and InstaMAT. Here's what we know about its features, its release date, and its likely price: https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/material-creator-will-be-a-true-alternative-to-substance-3d-designer/

08/05/2026

Check out EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani's breakdown of its high-octane effects for Netflix motor sport drama Motorvalley.

The full video shows a range of effects, from dirt and tyre smoke simulation to internal flythroughs of engines: https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/see-edis-high-octane-vfx-breakdown-for-motorvalley/

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