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Game AI Pro 3 book released free

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Steve Rabin has released his book Game AI Pro 3 free online. Formerly published by CRC Press , who still [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2uMZajp

Animation and anagrams combine for a very special music video

Cat Bermuda Dissection, anyone? from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2uPzKla

Sans Gravité

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Sans Gravité by Charline Parisot, Jérémy Cissé, Fioretta Caterina Cosmidis, Flore Allier-Estrada, Maud Lemaître-Blanchart and Ludovic Abraham is now available [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/36Ghms6

Godot 3.2 now available

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A new version of the open-source game engine Godot is now available. Version 3.2 includes  Android and Web Assembly support in Mono/C#,  Oculus [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37Sa85u

RailClone 4.1.2 released

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IToo Software has announced an update to RailClone, its parametric modelling and layout system for 3DS Max. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2tgPddC

Atari's video game hotel is another example of our immersive future

And digital creatives need to be ready. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2ObAjfQ

Watch Tokyo turn to AR hell in new Squarepusher promo

You won't want to try these augmented glasses. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2uMy8Za

DNEG’s new film reel

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DNEG has released a new reel of film work including Avengers: Endgame, Hobbs and Shaw, Alita: Battle Angel, Godzilla: King [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/314HKdR

Getty to kill rights-managed images next month

It's not just Meghan & Harry going royalty-free. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2GxqhkT

These ads make you think of McDonald's with just 5 words and 5 colours

Leo Burnett's campaign doesn't feature the 'Golden Arches' or even the word McDonald's – but you instantly know who it's for. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2GKjNiZ

RenderMan 23.1 released

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Pixar has announced the release of Renderman 23.1, introducing the ability to separate roughness for refractions and reflections in the [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3aLYNpz

nCloth for production

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The Gnomon Workshop has released nCloth for Production, a new commercial training set by Lead Creature FX TD Rohit Jain the [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2GxmDaU

Blending assets in Unreal Engine 4

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Quixel has released a recording of a live stream with Jonathan Holmes, Jack McKelvie and Joseph Downer in which they [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2O6g43k

A Wikipedia for Chinese type launches with over 230 Chinese fonts

China's forgotten typefaces find a home. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2GHADyZ

Organic sculpting in ZBrush

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Isaac Oster has published a series of videos demonstrating how to sculpt realistic organic shapes in ZBrush using hands as [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2U4OU0u

Unity 2019.3 is out now

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Unity Technologies has announced the release of Unity 2019.3. New features include a new editor interface, a new input System, faster [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2GxFmTv

Maya 2020’s animation and rigging tools overview

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Autodesk has released a video with the Maya team and Blue Sky studios in which they discuss the Maya 2020 [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2RzRoCe

Material Maker 0.8 released

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RodZilla has released an update for Material Maker, the open-source procedural material generation tool that’s built on top of the Godot engine. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/36EyfDH

Aquifer – facial motion capture using a mobile phone

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Aquifer Inventions has released Aquifer, an app that allows the user to use their smartphone for facial motion capture. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3aODe7Y

Creating animated thunder and lightning in 3DS Max

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Senior environment generalist at ILM Damien Peinoit has posted a short tutorial for creating animated thunder and lightning in 3DS [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2TTjTwh

Adobe previews Productions feature for Premiere Pro

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Adobe has shared a preview of the new Productions features coming soon to Premiere Pro including several new tools to help [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2RnEaZ3

Epic’s mobile support updates

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Epic Games has shared a post detailing their update and plans for mobile support in Unreal Engine. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37rHc4f

Premiere Pro gains new project tools

Productions is a new panel designed to make managing larger projects easier. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2sQRM5L

E-Cycles and E-Cycles RTX announced

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Mathieu Menuet has announced the latest version of E-Cycles and E-Cycles RTX, his accelerated version of Blender’s rendering engine. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/38utk9m

Starburst's Opal Fruit rebrand is designed literally by memory

A lost archive required nostalgia to the nth degree. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/37mzUPg

Unity’s The Heretic short film released

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Unity Technologies has released the full version of its short film The Heretic. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2v8HTB9

Debris Maker 2 and several other useful scripts now open source

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Aaron Dabelow has released the source code to his popular 3DS Max plugin Debris Maker as well as several other [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/36lxbUI

Autodesk to increase price of multi-user subscriptions

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According to a post by reseller ToolFarm, Autodesk is increasing its prices for new multi-user subscriptions from February 2020. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37miW3w

TopoLogiK v1.12 released – retopo tool for 3DS Max

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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/30Nejgl

Rendering interiors with V-Ray and 3DS Max

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Jamie Cardoso has released nearly an hour-long training video that takes the viewer through the process of lighting and rendering [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3aB1BpC

Aviz Studio release Roof Tile and Floor digital assets

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Aviz Studio has released two free parametric objects for 3DS Max. Smart Floors and Smart Roof Tiles both appear in [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2RhiwWm

Wordlwide FX’s Angel Has Fallen breakdown

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Worldwide FX has released a new breakdown video for its work on Angel Has Fallen.  Watch it on YouTube. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2RgsZRT

A Hayao Miyazaki art book is more good news for Studio Ghibli fans

Netflix? Chill with My Neighbor Hayao instead. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2TLZkln

New Substance Source assets – Architectural Worlds by Jonathan Benainous

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Adobe has announced a new collection of Substance assets in its signature series range. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2RIfJEC

IClone Unreal live link now free for indie users

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Reallusion has made its iClone Unreal Live Link plug-in free for Indie users. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2uqFh12

Ptolemee – PBR texture organiser

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21 12 Games has released Ptolemee, a commercial tool that allows the user to list and organise PBR textures with [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2NmFpHf

Shape

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Frederic Colin has released Shape, a new science fiction short film that mixes live action and 3D. Watch it on Vimeo and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2uhspup

RizomUV for 3DS Max users

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Stefan Haehnlein has released a tutorial that briefly explains the principles of RizomUV aimed at 3DS Max users. Watch it [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3av5Dj1

KeyShot Fuzz Tutorial

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Keyshot has released a new short tutorial explaining how to use the new Fuzz features of KeyShot 9. Watch it [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2R9fJhY

800 free LUTs

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Q-DDL has released over 800 free LUTs in 4 categories: cinematic packs, colour grading, film simulation, and colour moods. The files are [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Rzfcov

UE4 real-time hair advances

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FXGuide has published an interesting article that looks at recent developments in rendering and simulating real-time hair in Unreal Engine. Read [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/38mJK3I

Charlotte Arene on the making of The Sea Is Too Much To Drink

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French artist Charlotte Arene, director of the highly creative short The Sea Is Too Much To Drink, shares her experiences [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2swktom

Latest Jobs on CGPress – 17 January 2020

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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/2tvwZF4

Modeler 1 for Houdini released (formerly Direct Modeling)

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Alexey Vanzhula has released Modeler 1.0, formerly known as Direct Modeling for Houdini. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/30v03bW

Coral Generation with MaxScript

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Lucas Milner recently posted a video of his experiments in Maxscript to create parametric coral assets for The Living Reef,  an [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2R40irx

Coiffure for Maya

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Florian Croquet has released Coiffure, a new plugin for Maya designed to speed up the creation of real-time hair with XGen. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2R3QIoq

ZBrush Composition

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Pixologic has released ZBrush Compositor, a new plugin that allows you to send ZBrush render passes to Marmoset Toolbag 3 or Adobe’s [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3amrx83

Substance Painter texturing competition

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Adobe has announced its latest Substance Painter texturing competition. Find out more on the Substance website.   Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2FZDOSg

These are the best album covers of 2019

Every January, Art Vinyl reveals the winners of its best album art poll – which this year has been won by covers for Klone, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Efterklang. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/372W2xV

Scatter for Blender 2.8

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BD3D has released Scatter, a new add-on for Blender for parametrically distributing instanced geometry . (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/30tQ5aP

Arqui9 portfolio review with Mattew Bannister

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Arqui9 Visualiation has published an image analysis and paint-over portfolio review with Mattew Bannister, co-founder of DBox. You can watch it [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Ri1NRD

ArmorPaint 0.7 released

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Armory has released ArmorPaint 0.7, an update to its open-source PBR texture painting tool. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3ad4cWr

Character Animation and Video Reference

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The Gnomon Workshop has released a new training set by Senior Character Animator and Key Artist Sarah Arduini that explore the tools [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2QXBvoV

Reality Converter converts 3D formats to USDZ

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Apple has released Reality Converter, a new beta app that allows the user to convert, view, and customize USDZ 3D objects [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2NwCAlA

Make it Soho: Piccadilly Circus rebrands as PICARDilly Space Station

Set phasers to pun. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2FRLx4M

Secret 7" returns for a final hurrah in 2020

Create a 7-inch single cover artwork and see it sold to raise money for refugees in the last ever Secret 7" from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/36VTTnF

Watch a Nintendo game come to life in this advert/music video hybrid

Now we want to visit Nintendo World. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/3a8DqP3

Framestore’s The Witcher VFX breakdown

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Framestore has released a VFX breakdown for its work on The Witcher. Watch it on YouTube. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2QP2pPP

RenderStacks Preview Render for 3DS Max

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New developer quasiKrysta has announced its first tool called rsPrvRender  (short for renderStacks Preview Render). The script offers a simplified interface from [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2NjpI1W

Oscars 2020: Where to watch this year's Best Animated nominees

Enjoy this year's Academy Awards nominees for Best Animated Feature and Short Film for free and paid online. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2NmaUj8

QuickLight for 3DS Max

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Krzysztof Dawlud has released QuickLight, a new tool for 3DS Max that automates the task of setting up and tweaking [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2RcEvwz

The Arch-viz Job Application Guide

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Recent Spaces has published some handy tips for 3D Artists applying for jobs in Architectural Visualisation. Read it on the [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2RfpXMv

Capsule’s 2019 reel

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Paris-based Capsule has released its 2019 reel.  The studio was founded nearly four years ago by a team of veterans from [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Tb1lHr

DNEG’s The King breakdown

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DNEG has released a breakdown reel its VFX work on Netflix’s The King, featuring set extensions, digi doubles, crowds and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2R3oVDw

Katana 3.5 released

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Foundry has released Katana 3.5 with a rewritten core that promises speed improvements of up to 30 times for many operations. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37VyoU9

Rise’s 2019 VFX Reel

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Rise has released a new VFX reel of its work on big-budget film and TV projects. Watch it on Vimeo. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Tii0ZA

Deep FX updates

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Since we last reported, Deep FX World has released several development videos showcasing the progress of its standalone physics and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2TbR1yR

TerreSculptor 2 released and now completely free

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Demenzun Media has announced the released of TerreSculptor 2, the latest version of its procedural terrain creation software. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2QJZoAp

Best art and design exhibitions in 2020

Everything from political graphic design to Andy Warhol, make sure you pop along to these exhibitions for inspiration, education and reflection. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/309Y3pB

Owning Syd Mead's Blade Runner concept art isn't so out of this world

The design legend lives on in Blade Runner 2019. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2NerYrb

Intel teases faster processors for the next gen of pro laptops like the 16-inch MacBook Pro

Offering speeds at 5GHz and above, it's likely we'll see these new chips in laptops that already offer 9th-gen Coffee Lake processors such as Apple's MacBook Pro, Dell's XPS 15 and others. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2QDXNfc

Tiger Lake? The upcoming 'Thunderbolt 4' seems more like Kitty Puddle

Intel's new 'Thunderbolt 4' spec quickly turns into a confusing mess. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2T65YTe

Overnight Batch Render

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Spline Dynamics has released Overnight Batch Render a new tool for 3DS Max that promises the user a simplified way [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2T5aEZF

PolySlicer for 3ds Max

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Poly Design has released PolySlicer, a new scripted tool for 3DS Max that creates evenly spaced cross-sections. The developer describes [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37RdANl

This iPad stand saves artists from the aches of drawing

The Sketchboard Pro could be the best thing to come out of CES. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/36AzWTh

Carry around Harley Quinn and super friends with DC branded credit cards

Ever wanted a Bruce Wayne Visa card? from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2sPgWSu

The Sea Is Too Much To Drink

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A very creative short by French artist Charlotte Arene, made with stop motion animation. Watch The Sea Is Too Much [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/36w0F3e

3Disciple – new Architectural Visualisation magazine

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SiNi Software has announced the launch of a new magazine aimed at the architectural visualisation industry. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/35zV9eG

Free advanced terrain shader for UE4

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Auke Huys, visual storyteller and lead environment artist at Sooii has released an advanced modular landscape material for Unreal Engine 4. You can read [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2N3SlAi

Using VEX to procedurally art direct copy stamps

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Sharan Vaswani has posted a two-part tutorial that explains how to use VEX to procedurally art direct copy stamps in [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2N4PZky

3DS Max to Lumion exporter

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3DSMaxScript has released Lime Exporter, a new scripted tool that can be used to export a Max scene including materials [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2N3xblQ

3Dbuzz closes making all content available for free

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3Dbuzz has announced it is closing, in a final gesture it has made all its content available for free, including [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2N4SN0X

New stamps honour classic British computer games

Tomb Raider and Designers Republic-branded gem Wipeout come included in the set. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2QPDVEO

New stamps honour classic British computer games

Tomb Raider and 90s Designers Republic-branded gem Wipeout come included in the set. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2ZZNs00

Real-time projection mapping with 3DS Max

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Eloi Andaluz Fullà has released a video demonstrating 3DS Max being used for 3D real-time projection mapping. This is made [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2QujpKW

Unigine 2.10 released with a new terrain system

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Unigine has announced the release of version 2.10 bringing several significant new features to the real-time engine including a brand [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2twseuK

D5 Render Engine

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Singapore-based Dimension 5 has announced D5 Render, a new realtime engine that combines ray-tracing and rasterisation techniques. Find out more on [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/35tM0V0

Foundry’s APAC reel

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Foundry has released a reel of work created by its customers based in the APAC region. Watch it on YouTube. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2sFVUpj

Tokyo 2020 Olympics Art Posters from Chiris Ofili and manga masters unveiled

Naoki Urasawa, Tomoko Konoike, Philippe Weisbecker and more have contributed to the Olympics and Paralympics campaign. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/35tKtOP

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

We need your help: tell us what you think of Digital Arts in our 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/2ZPoqB2

Free ebook – Compile Plugins for Maya

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Rigging Dojo has released a free ebook called Making Plugins for Maya. The book explains how to build two plugins [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2tvdhsF

Microsoft Flight Simulator New Year trailer

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Microsoft has released a new trailer for it’s upcoming Flight Simulator that uses Bing map data to represent nearly anywhere [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2tuLr00

Volkswagen Beetle: A classic car gets a classy send-off in this animated ad

Beatles and hand-drawn techniques help bid farewell to the Volkswagen Beetle. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2tqOR3P

Maya to Clarisse bridge tool updated

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Muhammad Etman has released an updated version of his tool for exchanging scenes between Maya and Clarisse IFX. New features [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37C1He3