Books

Epic Games has published a free 100-page field guide to help animators use Unreal Engine in production. (more...)

Unity Technologies has released a new free ebook titled 70+ tips to increase productivity with Unity 2020 LTS. Find out more on the Unity Blog. 

The Ray Tracing Gems 2 ebook is now free to download. The book explores next-generation real-rime rendering with APIs such as DXR, Vulkan, and OptiX and teaches ideas, tips, and best practices for creating real-time ray tracing applications. Find out more and download from the Springer website.

3DS Max artist Neil Blevins announces new Kickstarter campaign for his second book, "Megastructures: The Visual Encyclopedia". (more...)

Jamie Cardoso has announced the publication of his latest book V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max 2020: 3D Rendering Workflows by Taylor & Francis/CRC Press. (more...)

Epic Games has released the second volume of its field guide for virtual production. Find out more and download it for free on the Unreal blog. 

The Visual Effects Society (VES) has released the 3^rd edition of The VES Handbook of Visual Effects.   (more...)

Junichiro Horikawa has published an algorithmic design workbook for Houdini with 21 exercises each of which includes two sample answers. According to the author it is aimed at beginner to intermediate users. The e-book costs $15 and is available in English and Japanese.  Find out more on Gumroad.

Rigging Dojo has released a free ebook called Making Plugins for Maya. The book explains how to build two plugins from open source libraries. Download it from Rigging Dojo (email required).