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25 best picture books for children

Brilliant picture books with art by famous illustrators that your children will love for Christmas – and which you'll appreciate too. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/34sYjBf

25 best picture books for children

Brilliant picture books with art by famous illustrators that your children will love for Christmas – and which you'll appreciate too. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/37SPhjg

These are the best badges of 2019

See the winners of this year's Stereohype's Button Badge Design Competition – now in its 15th year. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2DvAmNG

Black Friday Wacom deals 2019

We've found the most wondrous Black Friday deals currently out there for Wacom drawing tablets. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2L3RXAE

The Best Art and Design Conferences of 2019/2020

Find inspiration, fun, skills and the chance to meet some like-minded people at these festivals across subjects from concept art and illustration to branding, and from graphic and UX design to animation and VFX. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2qK9ZB9

3DS Max 2020.3 released

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Autodesk has released 3DS Max 2020.3. The latest update adds improvements to the ATF Imported for improved Skethcup importing, further [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37GMFVt

TyFlow as a scattering tool

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RealtimeUK artist Danilo Lombardo has written a making-of for his recent experiments using TyFlow as a scattering tool. Read it [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/33pUYBr

Storm 0.3 released

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EffectiveTDs has released an update to Storm, its standalone simulation tool. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Dks4rT

GrowFX 2.0 beta released

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Exlevel has released a beta version of GrowFX 2.0, an eagerly anticipated update to the respected parametric tree and plant modelling [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Olu9u9

Creating a simple scattering tool with Unreal Blueprints

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State Of Art Academy has released a tutorial explaining how to use Unreal’s Blueprints system to create a simple scattering [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2OAZWGh

An infographic wins the Designs Museum's Designs of the Year award 2019

The winners of 2019's Designs of the Year also include work for Adidas, a low-cost HIV detector, a next-generation crutch and graphic design by Pentagram. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2reSOYg

Blue Zoo’s Unreal short animation “Ada”

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Epic has published a case study exploring how UK studio Blue Zoo used Unreal to create the distinctive natural media [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2D3KoWl

Blender 2.81 released

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The Blender Foundation has announced the release of version 2.81. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2XBo4N4

V-Ray for Unreal – Lightmaps and Light Baking

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Chaos Group has released a new tutorial that explains Lightmaps and Light Baking options when using V-Ray for Unreal. Watch it [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2OdTTst

USD for Maya Overview

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Autodesk has published a blog outlining an Overview of USD for Maya including future plans. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37sxkrs

Phoenix FD 4 for 3DS Max and Maya released

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Chaos Group has released Phoenix FD4 for Max and Maya. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37r5KL6

Reader Survey 2019: Win a Samsung Galaxy Note 10 & Amazon Vouchers

We need your help: tell us what you think of Digital Arts in our 2019 Reader Survey, and in return we're offering the chance to win a Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and one of 40 £20 Amazon vouchers! from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2OKQgJB

Vexus 3.12 released

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Boomer Labs and JokerMartini have announced an update to Vexus, their standalone node-based editor for scene assembly and render pass Management [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/334ANco

Easy Clones for After Effects

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MW Motion has released Easy Clones, an After effects plugin for cloning and distributing 2D artwork, including Bitmap Layers, Vector [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/338jnLG

Scanline VFX’s Spider-Man: Far From Home breakdown reel

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ScanlineVFX has released a reel for their work on Spider-Man: Far From Home. Watch it on Vimeo. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2pCG39k

Neon Noir: Crytek raytracing benchmark

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Crytek has announced a new real-time 3D benchmark tool that is base on its raytracing demo Neon Noir. Find out [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2XqSZM4

V-Ray GPU adds support for NVIDIA RTX

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Chaos Group has announced that from the November updates onwards, V-Ray GPU will have support for NVIDIA RTX’s RT cores [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/34298Kn

Free course on creating a VR game with Unity

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Unity Technologies has partnered with Oculus to release a free 20+ hours course to guide the viewer through all aspects of [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2OuD2QG

Lumion 10 teaser

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Lumion 10 was recently released adding a new high-quality preview mode, 62 high-quality foliage models, displacement mapping, 5 night skies, an [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2rRU5Vh

Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2019 CG sales

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A number of companies will be offering discounts during this year’s Black Friday (November 29) and Cyber Monday (December 2) [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2O3PmbY

Adobe is offering almost 40% off Creative Cloud for Black Friday

If you took advantage of this offer last year, you'll be pleased to know it's back again just in time before the price rises. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/32VSo6i

EmberGen alpha released

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JangaFX has released the alpha version of EmberGen, its realtime fluid-sim tool. It is able to instantly simulate, render, and export [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32UgLB1

Q-Proxies

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Spline Dynamics has released Q-Proxies for 3DS Max. The plugin is designed to quickly create multiple proxy objects to replace [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2QDJNCP

Epic acquires Shave and a Haircut

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Update Epic Games has announced that Shave and a Haircut is now free and availability under the Unreal Engine EULA license. In [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2XpxwTu

Photoshop for iPad is finally out – but what do designers think?

Adobe Photoshop for iPad is finally here; find our honest reactions here. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/32JfXPD

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

The first Windows version of Adobe's new digital painting app is out on Microsoft Surface devices - and we can now share what artists thought while getting hands-on with the app on the Surface and Wacom. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2Oqi0TF

Datasmith to remain free

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Epic games has announced that Unreal Studio, including Datasmith its importer from popular CAD and DCC applications, is to remain [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/33KCcGe

High Quality Cloud VDBs

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Edgeofthedesk used their experience in TV and Feature film to create several high quality cloud VDB assets.  Two sets are currently [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2NHQeCL

Epic Games acquires Quixel

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Epic Games has announced the acquisition of Quixel, creators of the Megascans library of photoscanned assets, the Mixer and the [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2rx3lhp

Best Black Friday deals for designers and artists 2019

Black Friday and Cyber Monday aren't just for squares, and deals are already here on Adobe, Wacom and Huion for all you free-spirited creatives. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2KepW8V

The Berlin Wall inspires a new font for the 30th anniversary of its fall

Words can stop walls when written in this free font. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/33MRUkd

Unreal Engine 4.24 Preview 1 now available

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Epic Games has released a preview build of Unreal Engine 4.24 with a  new project creation workflow that provides tailored [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32BqFr2

Blender Conference 2019 videos

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The Blender Foundation has made the videos from its 2019 conference available online. Watch them on this YouTube playlist.  Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2CvJSA1

Bifcmd, Bifrost Engine and Bifrost Compute Jobs explained

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Autodesk has published a short post explaining how Bifrost can be used in standalone applications using the Bifrost Arnold procedural which [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/36T0Ki9

Matcaps in 3DS Max

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Eloi Andaluz Fullà has released a short tutorial explaining how to create Matcaps using OSL in 3DS Max. Watch it [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2qFLzIr

Scene Creation Workflow in UE4

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Quixel’s Jonathan Holmes shares some workflow tips and trick for working with Quixel tools and assets in UE4. Watch it [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/34PZhr8

Keyshot 9 sneak peek

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Keyshot 9 is out now. New features include Fuzz, GPU rendering, RealCloth, denoising, a 3D model library and more. Find [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2rr8PKJ

Mari 4.6 released

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Foundry has announced the release of Mari 4.6. New features include several improvements to the recently-introduced Material System. The new Geo-Channels feature [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2WU31Fj

Adobe Sneaks 2019 reveals magical prototypes of new art and design tools

At the Adobe MAX 2019 conference in LA, the company gave us a peek into what its R&D teams are working on for next year's Creative Cloud releases; videos and reactions here. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2Cs1QDC

CG Cinematography – free online book

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Christophe Brejon has released a free book about CG Cinematography. The online publication is the result of two years work [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2NIcdbm

ZBrush 2020 released

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Pixologic has announced the release of ZBrush 2020. New features include the ability to sculpt and paint in Morph UV, [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2WQ30SP

Ftrack acquires Cospective

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Ftrack has announced the acquisition of Cospective, the creators of cineSync. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/33nJv6j

Corona 5 released

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Chaos Czech has released the latest version of Corona renderer. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/33nbpQ5

Adobe Sneaks 2019 reveals magical prototypes of new art and design tools

At the Adobe MAX 2019 conference in LA, the company gave a peek into what its R&D teams are working on. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2Nm0IHJ

Magical Adobe prototypes get unveiled for the first time – which are the best for visual creatives?

Adobe MAX 2019: The best of this year’s Sneaks. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2reH089

The Royal Mail's 2019 Christmas stamps feature papercut nativity scenes

Traditional scenes and crafts have been brought together by Charlie Smith Design and papercut artists Hari and Deepti. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2WM0WLj

Iliad demo shows 2D painting directly in Unreal Engine

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Praxinos has released a recording showing Iliad, its upcoming plugin for Unreal Engine that adds 2D painting and much more directly [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32c9DzS

Facebook has a new logo

The Facebook you use keeps the same logo, but the Facebook that owns it is changing. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/33eCq81

Dell has launched its first 4K monitor with built-in colour calibration and Thunderbolt 3

The Dell UltraSharp 27 4K PremierColor monitor could be everything a designer or artist needs from a display. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/34usl7m

Adobe Creative Cloud is here with new Photoshop and Illustrator for both desktop and iPad - plus updates to InDesign, XD and more

Everything you need to know about the Adobe CC, including Photoshop 2020 and Illustrator 2020. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2WH1p1j

Adobe Illustrator for iPad has been officially announced

Illustrator for iPad will include many more features than the previously released Illustrator Draw. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2CmNW5L

Houdini 18 sneak peek

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Side FX has released a sneak peek video for Houdini 18. Major features include a Sparse Pyro Solver Solaris and the new USD-based [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2PKriMv

Photoshop for iPad is out now

Adobe has snuck Photoshop for the iPad out ahead of its Max conference in LA tomorrow. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/33eKqGe

Photoshop for iPad is out now

Adobe has snuck Photoshop for the iPad out ahead of its Max conference in LA tomorrow. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2Ca8M84

Protocole Sandwich

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New great short from Gobelins with a Sci-Fi theme and unusual aesthetic work. Watch Protocole Sandwich short film on Filmnosis. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2WKLFKY

Rodeo FX’s Crawl breakdown

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Rodeo FX has released a breakdown for the CG alligators it created for Crawl. Watch it on YouTube.  Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3273GnJ

Maxwell 5 released

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Next Limit has announced the release of Maxwell Render 5. New features include a completely rewritten GPU engine that promises [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2WAdPZ5

Changes to substance licensing

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Adobe has announced changes to licensing of its Substance products. From November 2019 perpetual licenses will no longer be sold through [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2WvTFiA

Using Flow Maps with TyFlow

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Clovis Gay has released a short tutorial explaining how to use his VecMap painting script for 3DS Max in combination [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2JEzJFe