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Creatives in China won't find this flag on Adobe, Getty or Shutterstock

Certain stock images can't be seen in the People's Republic – and Shutterstock talent aren't happy. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2uC4Qgc

ArmorPaint awarded $25,000 megagrant

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ArmorPaint has announced that its open-source PBR texture painting tool is the recipient of a $25,000 Epic Megagrant. Find out more [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2uwHZmd

Unity introduces student plans

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Unity Technologies has announced new Student plans (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3a0zXkC

Algorithmic Design Workbook with Houdini

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Junichiro Horikawa has published an algorithmic design workbook for Houdini with 21 exercises each of which includes two sample answers. According [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2TeFBc8

Animate a tree in 3DS Max – 3 techniques

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Eloi Andaluz Fullà has released a roundup of 3 techniques to animate trees in 3DS Max when you don’t have [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2VoPRBa

Multiscatter 1.5 released

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iCube has announced the release of  MultiScatter 1.524 (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3a5w1z5

Wholesome animations remind commuters not to be animals

It's Everyone's Journey, remember? from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2v8YVjf

Autodesk to end Maintenance Plans

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A post on Autodesk’s forum has announced the end of subscriptions with multi-user access and maintenance plans from May 7 [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2wMS92X

Blender-OSM base version free add-on

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The Blender-OSM base version is a free add-on that allows the user to download and import OpenStreetMap and terrain data [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2VhItaJ

The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian, Season One

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ILM has released an interesting behind the scenes video showing an overview of the virtual production technology used on The [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3a1e98B

FuseFX opens new Atlanta studio

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FuseFX has announced the launch of a new office in Atlanta. Read the full press release on the FuseFX Website. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2SSnqtO

Easy Mess – physics based scattering for Unreal Engine

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Kemal Gunel has released Easy Mess, a tool for Unreal engine that uses randomised placement and physics to quickly set [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2vaTzUt

New Ivy Generator plugin for 3DS Max 2020 in development

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Guillermo Leal has announced that he is developing a new Ivy Generator plugin for 3DS Max. This will be good [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/39ZEcNh

Photoshop 21.1 released

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Adobe has announced the release of Photoshop 21.1 with an improved Content-Aware Fill tool that allows you to fill multiple [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2vPBfjR

DNEGs Chernobyl VFX breakdown

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DNEG has released a narrated breakdown of its VFX work for Chernobyl. Watch it on Vimeo. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2HPhBa5

Megascans Bridge 2020 released

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Quixel has announced the release of Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/38LDnYs

Gaea updated with new render engine

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Quadspinner has announced a new release of Gaea, its procedural landscape modelling tool. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2TgJDRx

Phoenix FD 4 new features webinar

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Chaos Group has released a recording of a webinar in which product Specialist Georgi Zhekov explains the newest features in [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2V9WiIl

Crazy Talk Animator 3 free for Mac

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Realillusion has announced that Crazy Talk Animator 3 is now free for Mac until 1 April 2020. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2uml1yc

Motiva release Layama pseudo-VR creation tool

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Motiva has announced the release of Layama, a new tool that creates 360-degree tours in just a few clicks. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2SHzyh7

SoMuchZBrush

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So Much Monsters has released an update to SoMuchZBrush, a set of tools to (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32aCnuv

Big Projects for Blender in 2020

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The Blender Foundation recently wrote a blog post outlining the major targets it plans to tackle in 2020. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2SEilFk

Joe Scarr on the naval battles in Midway

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Cebas Visual Technology has published an interview with Joes Scarr of ScanlineVFX on the VFX of Midway. Watch it on [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/39RSKOT

Celebrate all those times brands took a stand (for good PR)

A new exhibition is chock-full of virtue signals. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2SGk6lt

Photoshop hits 30 with updates for both desktop and its iPad baby

Did you know today is Photoshop's 30th birthday? from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2SGSj4A

Can you see the bottle in this Coke ad?

Invisible branding: Another big name joins McDonald's in playing hide and seek. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2P5kGai

Important Looking Pirate’s waterfall breakdown

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Important Looking Pirates has released a breakdown video for the rather splendid water simulations seen in Lost In Space.  Watch [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2u4SCfO

Ty Loar Du – node-based Maxscripting and Python

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Hong Kong-based Creawind Limited has released Ty Loar Du, a node-based tool that promises to allow the user to write scripts without [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2vCRJvA

Twinmotion materials now available for Unreal Engine

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Epic Games has announced that 500 PBR materials previously only available in Twinmotion are now available free for Unreal users. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2SxCk8F

Blender 2.82 release

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The Blender Foundation has announced the release of Blender 2.82. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3bMALvl

You've watched Parasite, now read the storyboards in comic book form

Meticulous illustrations made the Oscar-winner ultra infectious. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2SMvECn

Digital watercolours and anime spellbind for Haven, the latest game to mix rhythm and romance

Japanese animation shows Nintendo hot on the heels of swooning games like Sayonara Wild Hearts. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/2vsgxq3

Introduction to Houdini Solaris

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SideFX intern Yuqing Chen has posted an introduction to Solaris in Houdini 18, including several examples showing the process of [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2UOhZgU

E-on releases PlantCatalog procedural foliage library

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E-on has announced the release of PlantCatalog, a new procedural library and plants and trees. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2ORng3z

Pixomondo’s Carnival Row season one breakdown reel

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Pixomondo has released a breakdown reel for its work on Carnival Row season 1. Watch it on YouTube. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/39shHAs

Keyshot 9.1 beta released with automatic UV unfolding

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Luxion has announced the release of a public beta for KeyShot 9.1. New features include a UV unfolding tool that [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3bwtVcZ

Project Manager version 3.08.25 released

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3D-KStudio has updated Project Manager, its asset manager for 3DS Max. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2UN71Zc

Procedural drool and saliva in Houdini

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Sharan Vaswani has released a new 2 part tutorial on creating procedural drool and saliva in Houdini. Watch it on [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/38nGBAX

Rigging a spring in 3DS Max

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Stefan Haehnlein has released a tutorial explaining how to rig a spring in 3DS Max using expressions. Watch it on YouTube.   Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2HhMRhV

Advanced Rigging course for 3DS Max

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João Victor Ferreira has released a new course that teaches advanced Rigging techniques in 3Ds Max. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/39xclnI

Enjoy groundbreaking dance music visuals in this club-like exhibition

Design Museum celebrates the electronic history of Kraftwerk, Chemical Brothers and Aphex Twin. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/38lYDUp

Blender’s new physics driven cloth brush

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Pablo Dobarro released an interesting looking new cloth simulator brush (in alpha) for his blender sculpting tools. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/31M2LdQ

ILM’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker breakdown

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ILM has released a VFX breakdown for its work on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.  Watch it on YouTube. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2ShPer9

Chaos Group’s Project Lavina available to test

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Chaos Group has announced that Project Lavina is now available to test. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2OIID7e

Should designers code? A new Wix tool may solve an age-old dilemma

Editor X aims to make CSS less of a stress for creatives. from Latest News Articles from Digital Arts https://ift.tt/31JMK82

PostProduction Master for Photoshop

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Bogdan Bogdanović has released PostProduction Master, a Photoshop extension aimed at architectural visualisation artists to quickly set up a project [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3bwJdPh

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti review

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Jason Lewis has published a detailed review of Nvidia’s RTX 2080 Ti graphics card using real-world 3D and GPU rendering [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3bo54bj

ZBrush 2020.1 released

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Pixologic recently released ZBrush 2020.1 with several minor improvements, plugin updates, bug fixes and a diagnostic tool to send information [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/38dMIry

Instant Terra 1.9

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Wysilab has announced the release of Instant Terra 1.9, its real-time terrain creation tool. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2UuUSrz

Texture Box offer free CC0 PBR materials

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Texture Box is a new repository for free PBR materials under a CC0 license. At the time of writing over [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3bgm2bv

Cityscape Pro for 3DS Max released

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Simpolium has released Cityscape Pro, a new parametric site modelling plugin for 3ds Max. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/31ypvh6

Sketchup 2020 released

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Trimble has released the latest version of Sketchup. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37W9yUx

Maya Bonus Tool 2019/2020 released

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Autodesk has released the latest version of its free collection of Maya scripts and plugins. New tools in this release [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2tvMo8u

UV Set Editor for 3DS Max

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UV Set Editor is a script that brings similar features to Maya’s UV Set Editor to 3DS Max.  Features include the [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2v9S605

CGI Vault makes textures and panoramas free

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CGI Vault has announced that its textures and panoramas are now free for download under a Creative Commons Attribution license. The [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2S1axgP

Octopus 2 for 3DS Max released

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Rapid Tools has releasedOctopus 2, a new version of its octal menu system for 3DS Max that offers a fully scriptable and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2uiBcwe

Cavalry – new motion design software

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London-based motion design and VFX Studio Mainframe has announced a free public beta of its new motion design software Cavalry. Cavalry [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37UGXyP

Simple Scatter for Unreal Engine 4

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Army of One Games has released a new scattering plugin for Unreal Engine 4. Simple Scatter has been designed to bring [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2GSd86m