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See Eleven, Will and crew as toys in sweet new art based on the hit Netflix show. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2GFL5XQ

SideFX’s Scott Keating recently presented a preview of Solaris, Houdini’s new unified, node-based USD environment for lighting, lookdev, layout and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/313mjsw

Autodesk has announced Bifrost for Maya which will ship on July 31 with the Maya 2019.2 release. The new Bifrost [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2SYoOJR

Maxon has announced the latest update to Cinema 4D. It seems like this is the week for companies to update [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2ZmLdTv

The Blender Foundation has announced the release of Blender 2.80. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2OvNz1A

Autodesk has announced 3DS Max and Maya Indie, a new licensing option for users earning under $100,000 per year. The [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/316kWcw

Adobe has made a number of announcements about the Substance product line at this year’s SIGGRAPH conference. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2ZvelI8

A year after it was first shown at SIGGRAPH 2018, OTOY and Epic Games take this year’s event as the [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2ypB4JP

Our favourite 3D artist adds her magic touch to one of our fave indie bands. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2LOj2tt

Vojtěch Čada has published a detailed tutorial to help users get started with the 3DS Max SDK. Aimed at people [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2ymrw2v

Updated MagicPictures Software has now released its two new plugins for 3DS Max: AqBullet, which is a bullet physics-based dynamics plugin; [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2YFrwG7

Chaos Group has officially released the V-Ray for Houdini, bringing all the core features of the popular renderer to Houdini.  [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2yjxqRX

Anna Frühstück, Ibraheem Alhashim, and Peter Wonka have published a paper (to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2019) that demonstrates a [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2YdDwCu

ScanlineVFX has published a breakdown reel of their work for Game of Thrones Season 8. Watch it on Vimeo. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Ycp3Xr

Esri has released a webinar recording with Nathan Fariss in which they look at the inspiration, planning and process that went [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2ZmcmpG

SIGGRAPH has published a “Fast Forward” video in which the authors of technical papers and a selection of art papers [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2GDhHBM

The Khronos Group has announced that Autodesk has joined the consortium, a regulatory body dedicated to the open standards in [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Mey0sh

DNEG has released a new VFX breakdown showing a glimpse into how the cyborgs were created for Alita: Battle Angel. Watch [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2OlCtw2

Nekki has released a demo video for a new pose prediction tool out it alpha for Cascadeur, its physics-based animation application [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2MiAqWX

Adobe has released an update to Substance Painter. Version 2019.2 improves the speed of Bakers, claiming an impressive speed increase [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32Wt7Kb

Autodesk has announced a new update to its  Flame Family. New features include several new ways to isolate and modify [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2MbqUoq

CrusherSOP is a new Houdini HDA to help the user fracture geometry while retaining artistic control. It works by drawing curves in [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2ygRp3D

The Criterion Collection is bringing the classic Godzilla movies to Blu-ray with awesome presentation from Yuko Shimizu. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2Mhj9NJ

This series of artworks for charity Help Refugees are all based around the iconic typographic statement designed by Katherine Hamnett. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2YhmnmE

This series of artworks for charity Help Refugees are all based around the iconic typographic statement designed by Katherine Hamnett. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2McD9B9

Ftrack has announced a number of improvements to its production tracking and media review platform that will be revealed at SIGGRAPH [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Y7h1PW

New features in 3DCoat v4.9 include a new CutOff tool, improvements to the Paint, Sculpt, UV/Retopo room, New curves and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2y6s6kE

Foundry has announced the latest version of Flix, its collaborative story development tool. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2YqVvop

Golaem has released version 7 of its crowd simulation tool for Maya introducing a new layout tool. The Golaem Layout [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Gq2OCy

Pixel Forest has released an update to FlowScape, its simple to use sketching app for drawing natural environments. Until now [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2McFFHl

Exoside has released QuadRemesher, a new auto-retopology tool that produces clean quads compatible with Max, Maya and Cinema 4D. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Y40bRS

There are a couple of recent entries on CGPress’ jobs board. As a service to our readers, our jobs board [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Gohpi0

Allan McKay’s latest tutorial explains how to create a portal effect using TyFlow and 3DS Max that’s similar to those seen [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Yntw98

SitniSati has released an update to FumeFX, its fluid dynamics plugin-in for 3DS Max, designed for creating realistic fire, smoke, explosions [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/30SUrai

JangaFX is working on a real-time volumetric fluid simulation tool called EmberGen. According to the developers, it is able to [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2OenOCF

Epic Games has announced that Unreal Engine 4.23 will add support for Cinema 4D. The ability to import .c4d files [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Z6dRbu

Ubisoft has announced they have joined the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund as a corporate Gold member – listed on the [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Ob79jz

How Marvel won hearts at Comic Con with not one but two logos for Thor: Love and Thunder – plus a whole load of Desert Chrome. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2O9kNDG

Quixel has released an update for Mixer, its procedural material blending and creation tool.  (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2JZAibN

Adobe has announced the updated of its Substance plugin for Maya. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Svtre0

Epic has released a webinar recording demonstrating how to create real-time architectural, construction, urban planning, and landscaping visualizations using Twinmotion. Watch it [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2LZX7yJ

Witold Jaworski released an updated version of his free book about coding add-ons for Blender, bringing it up to date with Blender 2.80. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2YfcVEy

Disney Research has published a new paper that describes a technique to improve the control of interpolations in animation by [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2JPgNmv

Rising Star Pictures has released a VFX breakdown for their work on Captain Marvel. Watch it on YouTube. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2JEEq2d

Researchers from UC San Diego and Google have published a paper demonstrating an approach to relighting portraits using a neural [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Z1bLK2

Osaka-based MARUI-PlugIn has updated their plugin for Maya that allows the user to model and animating in VR.  The developers claim [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2JMxsqB

Bigger than the Cintiq 16 and cheaper than the Cintiq Pro, the Cintiq 22 is Wacom's new tablet aiming to be best for beginners. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2xOtqZp

iToo Software has released a two-part tutorial that demonstrates how to combine the 3ds Max plugins Forest Pack and RailClone to [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2XPgpOw

Gnomon Workshop has released a new training course by VFX Art Director Alex Nice about his process for creating both [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2LqGflj

Foundry – the publisher of Modo, Nuke, Mari, katana and others – has announced the appointment of Jody Madden as new [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2JRsmcW

Ivan Maximov has released a new version of his MCG modifier for 3DS Max that creates topology-based weaving patterns. It costs [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/30FqUAP

Adobe has released Dimension CC 2.3, its 3D rendering and compositing software for graphic designers. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2xPKcXZ

PostPerspective has published a review of the Hitfilm Pro 12 editing, compositing and visual effects application published by FXHome. “[…] HitFilm 12 [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Y5ZsPj

Union VFX has released a reel of their invisible VFX for Stan and Ollie for which they helped anchor the [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2YWrEBn

Disney Research presents a method for tracking the invisible jaw bone of an actor based solely on footage of the head, [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2JCaDXZ

Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Tim Ledbury has published a breakdown reel for Wes Anderson’s stop motion feature Isle of Dogs. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2XVm01b

Newtek has announced the release of Lightwave 2019.1.  (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2XOcDjz

Foundry has teased a new tool called Inpaint, due for inclusion in Nuke 12.0. According to the company, it allows [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2LpB84M

The Blender Foundation has announced it has been awarded a $1.2 million MegaGrant from Epic Games to “further the success [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2lE5zc2

DNEG has released a VFX breakdown for Catch 22, Hulu’s adaptation of Joseph Heller’s modern classic of the same name. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2xUUR3T

Australia-based Rising Sun Pictures has released a breakdown reel for their work on Dumbo. Watch it on YouTube. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2LivOjH

Kinematic Lab has released Chaos, a new parametric Spline object for 3DS Max that creates spline using what are called [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2YLSMTj

The Blender Foundation has released a release candidate for Blender 2.80, meaning the final release is imminent. Assuming all things [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2G5xPvq

Epic Games has announced a preview release of Unreal Engine 4.23 is now available. Preview 1 includes several new features including, [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2YOwVuv

3DFlow has announced that an update to its photogrammetry software 3DF Zephyr is now available. Version 4.5  improves the “mesh enhancement [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2G8q3ky

Design Connected has released a new version of Connector, its standalone asset manager. Version 1.7 adds support for Substance materials including [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2YLSAn3

Anastasiy has released MagicTints, a new plugin for Photoshop, Lightroom and Affinity Photo that uses a machine learning engine to apply [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32o9jPB

Quixel has announced the release of Bridge 1019.2 with a focus on some of the most recent industry formats and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2NXD2fo

João Victor Ferreira has released a new tool for 3DS Max called Jaylids designed to close the eyelids of characters in [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2XCDP9D

Autodesk has published an article explaining two uses for round-tripping between 3DS Max or Maya and Unity. In the first [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2XDNvkr

Hocus Pocus Studio has released a breakdown of the dragon produced for the short file The Food Chain. It features some [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2LcW1Aj

Secret Weapons has released a free standalone tool called EbSynth that renders video in the style portrayed in one or [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2xJ7U85

According to a thread on CGTalk, MagicPictures Software will soon release two new commercial plugins – a Mesher called AQ Mesher, [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2YFrwG7

Michael Stark has released an interesting tutorial for Houdini that demonstrates a technique for stylising pyro animations so that they [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2XBoDol

Insydium has released the latest update for XParticles for Cinema 4D. New features include an xpDynamics Tag that is fully [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Jmh6WM

Meshmen Studio has released a tutorial explaining a technique for capturing HDR environment domes for scene lighting. Watch it on YouTube.  Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2LDFRzn

Agisoft has released De-Lighter, a new free stand-alone tool designed to remove shadows from model textures. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2XouG4u

Renderpeople has made four new models of 3D people available for free, bringing the total of free samples available to [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2JvhPnt

Scanning company Holocreators has released a tutorial explaining how to create free 3D scans of objects using a phone camera [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Xq89o2

SitniSati has released a new tutorial demonstrating tyFlow’s PhysX operators and how to use the FumeFX velocity field to carry maple [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/30bzN59

Effective TDs has posted a short tutorial on importing Alembic sequences (ABC) without any mesh assigned to 3DS Max using [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2XPHNeu

KinematicLab has released an update to TopoLogiK, its retopology tool for 3DS Max that promises a “more procedural, parametric and efficient approach”. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2LCNUfD

Paris based Immersive Ways has released a beta version of Inside, a new tool to edit immersive, hybrid and interactive [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2RURq6s

EffectiveTDs has released Storm, its standalone granular simulation tool. Version 0.2.5 adds Expressions for all float and boolean parameters, a Linux version, floating [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/30ajANr

Allan McKay has started a new tutorial series that explains in detail a 5 shot sequence of Thanos from Avengers turning [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2XRakAe

A new tutorial on using Cached Shadows has been released for Unigine. This feature allows the user to replace dynamic shadows [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2YvyRIg

Bogdan Sasu has announced a new book called Great Talks about Photo Realism, which features a behind the scenes look at [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/309lHRJ

Gnomon Workshop has released a new training set by Toni Bratincevic, a Senior Environment Modeler at Blizzard Entertainment. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2xrwYAs

Justen Lazzaro has released Ultimate Trim UV a script for 3DS Max that can be used to speed up the process of [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/304Z94A

Pixar had updated its API for creating Sub-D surfaces with the addition of triangular patches for loop subdivision, sparse patch tables, [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2LxhaVk

Rowbyte has released Fast Bokeh a free plugin for After Effects for generating DOF and bokeh effects using a depth [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2xq4J5q