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Using Cryptomattes in Blender 2.8

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Flipped Normals has released a tutorial explaining how Cryptomattes can speed up your work when compositing and lighting with Blender [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Nq4m1Y

RailClone 4 for 3DS Max released

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Itoo Software has announced the latest version of its parametric modelling and layout tool for 3DS Max. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/348klss

Create World of Warcraft in UE4

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In Quixel’s latest livestream Wiktor Öhman takes an in-depth look at creating World Of Warcraft’s Orgrimmar environment (of course, using [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2WlzfsB

Material Creation and Texturing Basics

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Pedro and Lukasz from Arqui 9 demonstrate how to create base materials and the basics of texturing in this 20-minute [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2NiAcOd

Project Manager 3 for 3DS Max released

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KStudio has released Project Manager 3 for 3ds Max. New features include the ability to assign custom previews to materials, associate files [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2JtuxUi

UV Tools 3 for 3DS Max

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HQ Details has released UV Tools 3, a scripted tool for 3DS Max that simplifies many processes for UV mapping [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2BRnfWi

Eloi Andaluz Fullà’s October news roundup

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Eloi Andaluz Fullà has released the October edition of his monthly CG news roundup. Watch it on YouTube.  Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2qRFuJ5

ITV rips up TV listings in the name of mental health

A new campaign sees the station get Britain talking through a canny use of print media. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2MG0vPj

Look Development And Lighting Techniques For Film

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The Gnomon Workshop has released a new training course by Miguel Ortega that breaks down the creation of two shots featured [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Wc1IRx

The Process

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Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen has released a short animation that captures how he feels when trying to accomplish a creative goal. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2N4YICl

Automatic scanning of small objects

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Digital Archive of Natural History (DiNArDa) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the digitization of natural history collections, particularly insects. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/31Bz8Kp

Animation Mentor’s 2019 reel

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Online school Animation Mentor has published it’s latest showreel of student work. Watch it on YouTube. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2BAE9IJ

Clone Modifier pack for 3DS Max

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John Martini has released a modifier pack that contains 3 plugins for creating linear, radial and grid clones. They work [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2W23nt1

Unity

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Unity Technologies has published an article explaining the changes coming to Unity’s PhysX integration in version 2019.3. Read it on [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2MBPdvj

The Grove release 8

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F12 has released a new version of The Grove, its parametric tree modelling tool for Blender. New features include the [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2WbutxW

Aerialod – height map renderer

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Ephtracy has released a free tool for visualising heightmaps. Aerialod is an interactive path tracer that allows you to import and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2p64Z8P

Arnold Scene Converter

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Mads Drøschler has released a free tool for converting V-Ray and Corona scenes to Arnold. Supported materials include V-Ray material, V-Ray 2 [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32BsMfm

Modifier Stack tips and tricks

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Eloi Andaluz Fullà has released a tutorial explaining several handy tips for getting the most from 3DS Max’s modifier stack including [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2BsFxgi

BlackRay – real-time engine for 3DS Max

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BlackRay is a new real-time renderer and game engine for 3DS Max in development by Hamid Memar. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2J2FYSL

Unity price increase

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Unity Technologies has announced that its prices will rise in 2020. Currently, a Plus license costs $35 per month and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/33IsaoC

Out of Range

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Gobelins has released a new great animated short about a lawyer who needs to get to the most important meeting [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2VOsM9q

Google to discontinue its Daydream VR platform

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Google has announced that it is to discontinue its Daydream View VR headset and that VR support will not be [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2VTQ5Pe

Adidas joins the Blender Development Fund

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Adidas is the latest company to join the Blender Development fund according to a recent tweet by the Blender Foundation. Adidas [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2OSvJo0

Controlling robots with Maya

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Befores and Afters has published an article on how industrial robots can be controlled directly from within Maya using a [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/35BdSYJ

Pulldownit 4.7 for Maya released

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Kinetic Thoughts has released Pulldownit 4.7 for Maya. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32oIESk

Universal Scene Description: open source at Autodesk

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Autodesk has released a recording from SIGGRAPH 2019 in which they discuss the how the company is working with leading [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2OT9Epd

Allan McKay’s Mummy (1999) VFX Breakdown

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Allan McKay has published a video in which he deconstructs ILM’s VFX on the 1999 version of The Mummy. Watch it [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2oJtXe7

Blender’s Eevee and Megascans

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Quixel’s Adnan Chaumette has released a live stream recording that breaks down Blender’s render engine Eevee, and offers tips and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2ITtwoB

Copy and paste models between different apps

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Origami Digital Software has released a set of plugins that allow the user to copy and paste geometry between different [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/33xtPgv

Best Wacom deals 2019

We've found the best deals currently out there for drawing tablets from Wacom – along with interesting alternatives from lesser known brands. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2MeGOxU

Best Wacom deals 2019

We've found the best deals currently out there for drawing tablets from Wacom – along with interesting alternatives from lesser known brands. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2MEDzin

Kristina Bold is a font based on a stroke survivor's handwriting

A new font is designed to over websites and newspapers for World Stroke Day 2019. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2oxsB60

Boat wake simulation with Phoenix FD

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VRayGuide has released a tutorial for Phoenix FD that demonstrates how to simulate a ship sailing on a large body [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2B0gtx4

Marvelous Designer 9 released

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CLO Virtual Fashion has announced the release of Marvelous Designer 9. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/35q3GSG

Graphics Card group test

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CG Channel has posted a detailed group test of Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX graphics cards. Read it in full [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2M6vV0R

Apple has updated Final Cut Pro X ready for the new Mac Pro

The update features performance enhancements, a new Metal engine and more. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2OEXXCC

Texture painting for beginners in Blender 2.80

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This tutorial by Southernshotty demonstrates how to create, texture, and paint a character from scratch. Watch it on YouTube. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/326lgZD

3D Model Haven announced

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Greg Zaal, the creator of HDRO Haven and Texture Haven,  has announced that thanks to a $10000 grant from Epic [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2oiOPsB

Quad Remesher now available for Blender

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Exoside has announced the release of Quad Remesher for Blender. The plugin is an auto-retopology tool created by Maxime Rouca, the [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2MsXcd9

Dem Bones – open source library for skinning decomposition

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EA has announced an open-source library called Dem Bones. The library implements the state-of-the-art skinning decomposition solution that was first introduced in [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32fIBbm

Adobe software cut off in Venezuela

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Adobe has announced that its software services will no longer be available in Venezuela in compliance with US sanctions implemented [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2oiIYUc

Cutting roads into terrain

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Berlin-based XOIO has released a two-part tutorial explaining how to cut roads into a terrain. In the first video they create [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/31YHnRP

NVIDIA joins Blender Development Fund at highest Patron level

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NVIDIA has announced it has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron level sponsor. The 120,000 € per year donation [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2oXhLWV

Our Weekly Render Bread – 3 October

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Catch up with last week’s CG news in a vlog by Juan Gea from Bone Studio. Watch now on YouTube (English [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/33eP7Q4

CityEngine 2019.1 released with a new Maya plugin

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Esri has released the latest version of its parametric tool CityEngine. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/31ZcOLR

Rodeo FX’s Stranger Things Series 3 breakdowns

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Rodeo FX has released 3 new breakdowns of their work for Stranger Things Series 3, including  (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2VpjxvW

Adobe Character Animator sneak peek

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Adobe has released a sneak peek video for the next release of its 2D Character Animator tool. The video shows [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2VnC7od

Maya performance improvements webinar

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Autodesk Technical Specialist Steven Roselle has published a webinar recording in which he demonstrates recent performance improvements to Maya’s file [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2LRRJgC

Weta Digital’s 2019 reel

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Weta Digital has released a new demo reel showcasing their 25-year history from recent projects like Avengers: Endgame, Alita: Battle [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2MfAgxO

AXYZ Design preview 4D characters with realistic animated faces and clothing

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During a workshop at State Of Art Academy, AXYZ Design previewed their upcoming line of 4D photoscanned character assets that [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2LQH7yK

Substance Oceanic Exploration collection released

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Allegorithmic has released a new signature collection of Substances by Don Arceta themed around the ocean floor, paradise islands and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/31WyqIE

Microsoft's Surface Pro 7 adds faster chips, USB-C – and Adobe Fresco

The first Windows version of Adobe's new digital painting app will be released for Microsoft Surface devices. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2oa3dmL

LuxCoreRenderer 2.2 released

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Version 2.2 of LuxCoreRenderer has been released. The new version adds PhotonGI indirect light cache, integrated Intel Open Image Denoiser [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2oAcXGC

Lumion 10 teaser

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A new teaser for real-time archviz renderer Lumion 10 has been released. The video is light on details about what [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2pkE0Gl

Eloi Andaluz Fullà’s September news roundup

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Eloi Andaluz Fullà has released the September edition of his monthly CG news roundup. Watch it on YouTube.  Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2n2bdWu

Keyshot 9 sneak peek

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Keyshot has released a sneak peek for Keyshot 9. Some of the showcased features include Fuzz, GPU rendering, RealCloth, denoising, [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2nIQ8AO

MPC’s mission: Ad Astra

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Mike Seymour has published an article about MPCs VFX work on Ad Astra. Read it on FXGuide. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2phzJU7

Photoshop Content Aware Fill sneak peek

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Adobe has released a sneak peek of changes coming soon to Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill tool. The update gives users more [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2oxyjER

Nuke 12 released

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Foundry has announced the release of Nuke 12.  (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2nRgWPe

Emb3D – web and app based model viewer updated

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Transform and Lighting has released a new version of Emb3D Visual Reality, a 3D platform for high-performance 3D rendering in [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2ovOcLS

Our Weekly Render Bread – 26 September

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Here’s this week’s news roundup vlog by Juan Gea from Bone Studio  Each Friday we will share a recording of Juan’s [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2nQRCJ2

Adobe Character Animator finally gets keyframes, making live performance a cinch

A sneak peek of Adobe Character Animator 'CC 2020' is here. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2oc6wcV

Blender 2.81 what to expect

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The Blender Foundation has published information about what to expect in Blender 2.81, due for release in November 2019. New features [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2oeDetT

ZBrush sneak peek

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Pixologic has released a recording from the 2019 ZBrush Summit that offers a sneak peek of what we can expect [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2o7ZJks