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Smooth Boolean 2 for 3ds Max released

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KM-3D has announced the release of Smooth Boolean 2, its commercial plugin for 3ds Max that enables the user to [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3l0u10K

Blender to Maya bridge

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TRACE studio environment artist Peter Gubinhas released a new add-on for Maya that allows the user to export models in [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Gp1HFZ

Unreal Engine 4.26 Preview 1 now available

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Epic Games has announced the latest preview release of its real-time engine. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3kVxI7I

Instant Terra 1.13 released

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Wysilab has released a new version of Instant Terra, its landscape creation tool. Version 1.13 adds a new world browser [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3kR69we

Pixomondo’s Perry Mason VFX breakdown

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Pixomondo has released a breakdown reel for its work on Perry Mason. Watch it on YouTube. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/33WnxJj

Nuke Indie 12.2v3 released adding support for 3rd party plugins

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Foundry has announced a new version of Nuke Indie, the cut-price version of its compositing tool. The big news in this release [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/368ZdXo

Phoenix FD 4.3 release

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Chaos Group has announced a new update to Phoenix FD, its fluid dynamics tool for 3ds Max and Maya. Version [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3i4CBta

DNEG’s Away VFX breakdown

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DNEG has released a VFX breakdown reel for its work on Away, including the creation of a futuristic moon-base and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/33Vk2mj

Cinema 4d, Arnold Renderer and Fusion workflow for compositing 3d Renders

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MographPlus has posted a tutorial explaining how to Composite Arnold AOVs in Fusion using an ACES colour-managed workflow to create a [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2RRIBem

Autodesk joins the the Open Design Alliance (ODA)

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Autodesk has joined the Open Design Alliance, a nonprofit consortium that’s dedicated to providing support and access to open design [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2EAaK6I

Raphael Wahl on X short film

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German artist Raphael Wahl talks to Filmnosis about the making of his great SciFi comedy short X, which was made [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2HppNRG

Important Looking Pirates’ Lost In Space S2 breakdown

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Important Looking Pirates has released a VFX breakdown for its work on Lost In Space season 2. Watch it on Vimeo. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3i0t3Qc

Wysilab selected for Epic Megagrant

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Wysilab is the latest software company to have received an Epic Megagrant, this time to create a plugin to use [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2FIarHC

CGarchitect’s 2020 archviz render engine survey

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CGarchitect has published the latest results of its illuminating annual render engine survey focused on trends in the archviz industry. Read [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32QbkGy

Creating Glass shaders in Blender’s EEVEE

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CG Cookie has released a tutorial that demonstrates several techniques for improving the quality of glass real-time rendered with Blender’s [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32QeXws

Hybride’s Star wars: The Rise of Skywalker VFX breakdown

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Hybride has released a VFX breakdown for its work on Star wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Watch it on Vimeo. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/33MLylV

Marmoset Toolbag 4 beta now available

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Marmoset has announced that a beta of its realtime rendering, lookdev and texture baking tool Toolbag is now available to [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3iRRQqP

ActionVFX announces new service – CreatorVault

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ActionVFX’s CEO and founder Rodolphe Pierre-Louis has announced a new website called CreatorVault.com (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3iMbSTm

Akeytsu getting started tutorials

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Nukeygara has released several tutorials to help users get started with Akeytsu, its software that aims to take a new [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Ee3Vrh

Rokoko releases Smartgloves for hand and finger mocap

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Rokoko has announced the release of Smartgloves, its affordable hand and finger tracking solution.  (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/33DV5M5

ZBrushCore 2021 released with many new features

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Pixologic has announced the release of ZBrushCore 2021, its cut down version of ZBrush. This release sees the addition of [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2FFiPaE

After Effects beta gains new 3D tools

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Adobe has released a new After Effects public beta with revamped 3D transform gizmos and 3D camera navigation tools. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32GTMwq

RenderStacks 1.06 released

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QuasiKrystal has announced an update to RenderStacks, its recently released render pass and generic task manager for 3ds Max. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2FCob69

Image Engine’s Mulan VFX breakdown

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Image Engine has released a VFX breakdown reel for its work on Disney’s Mulan. Watch it on Vimeo. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/33z9pFB

Digital Domain’s Twilight Zone breakdown

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Digital Domain has released a breakdown video for its work on Twilight Zone season 2. Watch it on YouTube. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3c462u7

MAXON receives Epic Megagrant

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MAXON has announced that it has received an Epic Megagrant of $200,000 to strengthen integration between Unreal Engine and Cinema 4D. Read [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2DZ1MiW

Infinitely randomised tiles using OSL

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Changsoo Eun has published a tutorial demonstrating how to create an infinitely randomised tiles materials using OSL using only the [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3hrWHgD

ArchitiTextures

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Architextures is a collection of seamless textures for architectural design but also a web-based tool that allows the user to [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32qgXv0

Decal Machine 2 for Blender now available

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Machin3 has announced the released of Decal Machine 2, the latest version of its Blender Add-on for detailing surfaces using [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32r1ue2

Project Manager updated

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KStudio has announced a new update to Project Manager, its asset and scene management tool for 3ds Max. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32cEW0q

Cinema 4D R23 released

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Maxon has announced the release of Cinema 4D Release 23. The release gains improvements to animation and UV workflows, character [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2DI7B48

Procedural ecosystem scattering in Clarisse

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Isotropix has released a short tutorial demonstrating how to build a scattering system designed to generate ecosystems. Watch it on [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32aY5js

Lightmap Studio gains Blender Connectino

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Lightmap has announced the release of a new Blender connection for HDR Light Studio. As with its other connections, for [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/35gd6T2

Omniverse Machinima

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Nvidia has announced Omniverse Machinima, a new application designed to render real-time animations using game assets and stock content. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/333LmhO

Getting started with Unity’s Universal rendering Pipeline

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Unity Technologies has released several tutorials to help users understand the Universal Render Pipeline, plus some examples of how its [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2R1yaEH

RigNet: Neural Rigging for Articulated Characters

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RigNet: Neural Rigging for Articulated Characters is a new research project that proposes a method to predict and generate ready-to-use [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3jYLXYL

Cycles for Houdini

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Tangent Animation has released an open-source plugin that enables Blender’s Cycles renderer to run inside Houdini. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2R4tUE8

Blender 2.90 released

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The Blender Foundation has announced the release of Blender 2.90 (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3hUPwPn

Material Manager and Image Resizer

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Joker Martini has released two new scripts for 3ds Max: Image Texture Resizer and Material Manager. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/31VBdoc

Pepe-School-Land student reel 2020

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The school headed by Daniel Martínez Lara (Alike, Changes, etc.) has made available its latest reel featuring work from students, [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32Qz7VQ