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Integrating 2D backgrounds into visuals

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Arqui9 has released a new tutorial explaining how to integrate 2D background and images into 3D renders in order to [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2FEC4hv

Feather Tools for Houdini

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The Mill FX Artist Tighe Rzankowski has released Feather Tools, a new commercial plugin for Houdini that can be used to [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2YfHVRC

Thinking Particles Drop 8 released

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Cebas Visual Technology has announced the release of Thinking Particles subscription Drop 8 which adds 35 new OpenVDB operators. The [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2FDQ0Z8

RayFire for Unity released

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Mir Vadim has released Rayfire for Unity. his popular destruction kit plugin for 3DS Max. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2XeoWdM

Lightbrush Cloud

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Back in 2012 we announced that Tandent Vision Science had released Lightbrush, a tool designed to separate a photo into illumination and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2JfZ2w6

AI that can animate characters from speech

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NVIDIA has announced that researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have “developed an end-to-end deep learning algorithm [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2xi3uoI

Strand-accurate multi-view hair capture

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Giljoo Nam, Chenglei Wu, Min H. Kim, Yaser Sheikh have presented a paper at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2J8TGCP

The Principles of RailClone

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iToo Software has released a new introductory tutorial to help new users understand the core principles of RailClone, its parametric [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Ngw4lc

Autodesk to stop activating older software

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According to a post in AutoCAD’s online documentation, it appears that from August this year Autodesk will no longer supply [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2KEIgtZ

Tropism – procedural tree generator for Modo

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Digital Expressions Sweden has released Tropism, a new procedural plugin for Modo that allows the user to create trees and [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2RzkEr1

RizomUV 2019 released

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Rizom-Lab has announced the release of Rizom UV 2019, its standalone UV mapping tool. New features include: (more…) Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2xffW8M

Valkyrie Engine update, new tutorials, templates and more

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TalanSoft has released an update to Valkyrie Engine, its tool for creating real-time applications aimed squarely at artists.  (more…) Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2IKjqqr

Corel's Painter 2020 arrives with GPU-based brushes for real time performance

One of the best digital painting apps for Windows and Mac has been updated for 2019. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts http://bit.ly/2YkPKWh

Master Corona MultiMap

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Chaos Czech has released a new tutorial explaining how to use the Corona MultiMap to quickly and easily create variations [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2Ya7nI7

Bondware acquire Poser

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Bondware Inc, the parent company of Renderosity.com, has announced the acquisition of Poser from the previous owners Smith Micro. Find [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/31MEwff

Superblob beta released for 3DS Max

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Boomer Labs has released Superblob beta, a new meshing plugin for 3DS Max. Features include 5-10 times speed improvements over Max’s native [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2JhtIxl

Autohedge for 3DS Max released

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Happy Digital has released Autohedge, a new plugin for 3DS Max and V-Ray dedicated to the creation of hedges, bushes, [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2N9fDaj

Lumion 9.5 released with new assets

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Lumion has released an update to its real-time 3D software for architecture. Version 9.5 adds several new objects and materials [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2Kt9raT

Adobe offers first look at Fresco

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Adobe has released a first look at Fresco, the new digital painting application for tablets that aims to reproduce real [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2MZskEx

Red Giant VFX Suite

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Red Giant has announced VFX Suite, a set of 9 tools for keying, tracking, cleanup, and visual effects compositing for [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2Ktxary

Rémi Bèges on a new tool that add micro details to CG models

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Ian Failes has published an interview with Rémi Bèges, the creator of a new application called Nexture that allows artists to add [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2N4kcCA

SoA Academy Day X – Epic Games announced as main sponsor

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State of Art Academy has announced that Epic Games is the main sponsor for the 10th edition of Academy Days, [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2Y46gcM

Affinity Publisher released

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Serif – known for producing low-cost Photoshop and Illustrator alternatives Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer –  has announced the release [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2FjeNBy

New CG podcast – Wrong F-ing Question

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Mike Golden and Hrvoje Čop have launched a new CG podcast called Wrong F-ing Question in which they argue that “there is [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2MZa1PR

MC TieUp for Houdini released

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MC WorldKit has released MC TieUp, a new digital asset for Houdini that makes it easy to bind objects using [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2FlUlQy

Wrap 3.4 available

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New features in R3DS’s tool for transferring topology from a predefined mesh to a 3D scan include: (more…) Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2MZa0eL

Watch these fantastic short animations that won the RSA Student Awards 2019

Taking on everyday sexism and 'how to be more pirate', these three 60-second animated films were created by outstanding new illustration and design talent. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts http://bit.ly/2L2bXo5

Serif just launched its InDesign killer Affinity Publisher

Affinity desktop platform Publisher is finally out - and already comes integrated for use with Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts http://bit.ly/2Kr40sS

Roll modifier for 3DS Max animates any shaped geometry rolling over the ground

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Kinematic Lab has released Roll, a new modifier for 3DS Max that allows you to animate any geometry rolling over [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2XTMxfX

Unity to be usable as a library in native Android Java and iOS apps

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Unity Technologies has announced that version 2019.3 will add support for using Unity as a library controlled by native Android/Java [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2IqdfYl

Build a tree trunk scanning rig for photogrammetry

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Classy Dog studios have released a video explaining how to create a tree trunk scanning rig for photogrammetry. The approach [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2XWCA1a

Light Tracer – browser-based GPU rendering

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Denis Bogolepov and Danila Ulyanov have announced LightTracer, an early release of their browser-based GPU rendering engine. The engine allows [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2IoyDwT

GauGAN beta announced – turn sketches into realistic digital art

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Last March we reported on a new AI presented by NVIDIA called GauGAN that shows simple paintings turned into more accomplished [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2MUv7yA

Adobe research detects facial manipulations in Photoshop

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Adobe has released information about recent research work that attempts to detect edits to images that were made using Photoshop’s [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2RmG8Hz

Corona 4 for Cinema 4D released with new caustics

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Hot on the heels of the Max release, Chaos Czech has announced the release of Corona 4 for Cinema 4D. [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2KpznEr

Miarmy 7 released

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New features in Basefount Technology’s crowd simulation software for Maya include: (more…) Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2RosFz1

Quixel release Rebirth tutorial

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Quixel has released an in-depth 45-minute tutorial that goes through the entire production process for ‘Rebirth’, a cinematic they produced [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2Xm8uYd

BG Renderer Max for After Effects released

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BG Renderer is an After Effects script that allows you to render your Render Queue items in the background while [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2XS8HPS

Project Alchemist updated

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Adobe has announced an update to Project Alchemist, its tool for creating, managing and processing materials using procedural, hand-made, capture-based and [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2Xm7P9b

Trixter’s Captain Marvel breakdown

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Munich-based Trixter has released a new breakdown video for its work on Captain Marvel. Watch it on YouTube. Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2MO2frT

Total Chaos Keynote recording now available

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Chaos Group has uploaded recording of the Keynote talk from the recent Total Chaos conference. (more…) Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2KfTnJx

These new laptops for designers and artists from Dell, HP, Lenovo and Razer give you oodles more creative power on the move

Ignore Intel's 10th-gen chips announcements - these are the new laptops you should be checking out. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts http://bit.ly/2XLRirS

The weirdest things we learned this week: labor-inducing salads and cat-eating coyotes

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Science Our editors scrounged up some truly bizarre facts. What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast. from Science http://bit.ly/2XHVh8P

Scientists are putting antibiotics into the ocean—on purpose. And it's our only hope.

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Environment A mysterious new coral epidemic is ravaging reefs across the Florida Keys. A mysterious new coral epidemic is ravaging reefs across the Florida Keys. Antibiotics are just one part of a massive rescue operation with little time to spare. from Science http://bit.ly/2MSfOqu

Corona caustics tutorial

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Venice-based archviz training centre State of Art Academy has released a new tutorial demonstrating how to use Corona 4’s new Caustics [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2ICHtGj

3ds Max 2020.1 out now with tear-off viewports and a new hotkey editor

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Autodesk has released 3DS Max 2020.1 adding the ability to tear off viewports, a new hotkey editor, chamfer modifier improvements [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2I8z7am

Lux in Tenebris

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Bertrand Benoit has released a new film in which he visualises the unbuilt works of Etienne-Louis Boullée, an influential French architect [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2KdmdtR

Corona 4 released with new caustics

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Chaos Czech (formerly Render Legion) has announced the release of Corona 4. The update adds a new Caustics algorithm that’s [...] Read more from CGPress news http://bit.ly/2F3V4W7

It’s time to delete most of your apps

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Technology Unused apps on your phone can do more harm than simply taking up space. Apps are amazing, but getting rid of them sure feels great. from Technology http://bit.ly/2KaG110

How to make the perfect french fry, according to science

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Science The key is a crispy exterior and a soft interior. What happens during cooking that turns a humble potato into the perfect french fry? Chef Jet Tila and food scientist Dr. Arielle Johnson break down the science of french… from Science http://bit.ly/2X7crzS

Techathlon podcast: Classic messenger sounds, Apple’s fanciest Mac, and the week’s biggest tech news

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Technology Have fun and learn about tech at the same time. The most fun you can have with a podcast that doesn't have anyone famous on it. from Technology http://bit.ly/2X7uOER

Here's how much a chocolate bar made without child labor would cost

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Science A new study lifts the wrapper on the cocoa industry. Increasing the price of cocoa by a mere 2.8 percent could provide farmers with enough income to hire qualified adult labor, instead of relying on children. from Science http://bit.ly/2EYJjAf

Last week in tech: A bushel of Apple announcements, Google’s gaming service, and Xbox body wash

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Technology Plus, listen to the latest episode of the Techathlon podcast. WWDC highlights and the upcoming onslaught of video games from E3. from Technology http://bit.ly/2EXT162

Watch a digitally-upgraded Black Hawk helicopter fly for the first time

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Technology It’s a first step on the way to autonomous Army helicopters. A 1970s-era Black Hawk flew with a cutting-edge fly-by-wire system in it in May, a crucial step in the flight plan for autonomous helicopters. from Technology http://bit.ly/2WnRID8