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Monica Eggert’s demo reel

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One of the most creative and entertaining reels that have surfaced in a long time. Spanish animator Monica Eggert has [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3t9xnTF

Maverick Renderer updated with a new Ambience Composer

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Random Control has announced the release of Maverick Renderer 2021.1. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/39pS5ab

World Machine updated with speed boosts and a new UI

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World Machine 4015 ‘Mt Rainier’ has been released with an entirely new user interface based on QT.  Other new features [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3oma5GR

Introduction to PolyCloth

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Well known Youtube 3ds Max educator Arrimus 3D takes the PolyCloth modifier for a spin. Watch it on YouTube.  Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3cmQGTF

NUBIGON point cloud visualisation and animation software released

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NUBIGON is a new reality capture application aimed at the AEC and Digital Heritage industries that allows users to visualise [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2NzSzSy

HDR Light Studio – Xenon Drop 2 released

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Lightmap has announced the release of HDR Light Studio – Xenon Drop 2, the latest version of its live HDRI map [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2NKc8YD

Tilt Brush now open source

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Google has announced that the source code for Tilt Brush is now available under an open source Apache 2.0 license.  [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3iYQmMb

Shutterstock to acquire Turbosquid

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Stock photography, video and music behemoth Shutterstock has announced it is to acquire the well-known 3D asset marketplace Turbosquid. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2YtrT8x

DrawGroomGuides Tool for Maya

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UnPLUG Tools has released DrawGroomGuides, a new art directable hair and fur guides creation tool for Maya. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3a6eXur

Minsar Studio 2

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Minsar has announced the release of Minsar Studio 2, the latest version of its code-free tool for creating AR and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3pjsAgp

5 free seamless looping steam VDB assets

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Between Two Pines has released a pack of 5 animated steam jet OpenVDB volumes. You can get them for free or [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2LUKBTT

Light Tracer – Windows, Mac and browser-based GPU rendering

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Light Tracer has been updated with a new standalone MaxOS app to add to the existing Windows and browser-based versions. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3ocDOlv

Image Comp Helper for 3ds Max updated

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The Faction CGI has updated the Image Comp Helper script for 3ds Max with permission from its original author Christoph [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2YegVna

Spline Checker – free 3ds Max modifier

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Simpolium has released a  free diagnostic modifier for 3ds Max that can return the number of open splines, the total number [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3pa0aFh

Shell Pro modifier for 3ds Max

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Marius Silaghi continues his busy start to 2021 with another modifier plugin for 3ds Max. This time the Shell modifier [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Y41f5P

UMBRELLA

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Stratostorm has released their short film UMBRELLA. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3p9B9tZ

Auto Character Setup Free for Modo released

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Lukasz Pazera has released a free edition of Auto Character Setup for Modo.  (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3o4hgmR

Sketchup 2021 released

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Trimble has announced that the latest version of Sketchup is out now. New features include better tagging with the ability [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3sHiSqa

WiNDUP – animated short made with Unity

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Unity Technologies has released a new short film made with its real-time engine. This film was created using Unity 2019.2 on [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3o5T03E

LWCAD 2020 for Cinema 4D released

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Viktor Veličko has released a new version of his parametric architecture modelling tool for Cinema 4D. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/38XKn6P

ENSI shorts The Last Match and A Peaceful Rest

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A number of highly creative animated shorts have been made by students from Avignon-based ENSI with “cemetery” as proposed theme. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/35UUIyB

V-Ray sneak peeks

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Vladimir Koylazov (Vlado) has released 3 videos on youtube that show some of the R&D work being done for V-Ray. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2LZnJ5h

Adobe hires Pixar veteran Guido Quaroni

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Adobe has announced that Guido Quaroni will join its team as senior director of engineering on the 3D and immersive team. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3nWvIxd

After Effects January 2021 update

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Adobe has announced an update to After Effects. The main changes are a more accurate Content-Aware fill that is able to [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2LNJgO3

Axiom for Houdini updated

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Matt Puchala has announced the release of a new build of Axiom, his GPU accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver for [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Lx9KDN

Theia Interactive awarded Epic Megagrant

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Theia Interactive has announced they are the latest company to receive an Epic MegaGrant. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3snTyoL

70 free HDRIs

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Elvis Posa has released 70 high-resolution 32-bit HDRIs in 4,096 x 2,048 px and 16,384 x 8,192 px resolutions. Both [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2XvHNi6

Relax Pro for 3ds Max

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Marius Silaghi has released Relax Pro, a new modifier for 3ds Max that smooths meshes while preserving their volume unlike [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/39tS5oi

Big Projects for Blender in 2021

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The Blender Foundation recently wrote a blog post outlining the major targets it plans to tackle in 2021. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2KdYP1e

Epic Gamers acquires RAD Game Tools

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Epic Games has announced the acquisition of RAD Game Tools, creators of compression and video technology. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/35uzZl3

FiberShop – real time hair card texture maker

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FiberShop is a new standalone application that allows the user to create hair cards and see their edits in real-time. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3oA6LIN

SOA CloudMaker for Unreal Engine

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SOA Academy has release CloudMaker, a project for Unreal that allows users to create photorealistic skies using a fully customizable material in [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3pXPs4L

StyleFlow, a new StyleGAN-based AI approach

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Two Minute Papers has released a new video titled This AI Gave Elon Musk a Majestic Beard, a much snappier name [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3biU9lx

Terragen 4.5 released

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Planetside Software has announced the release of Terragen 2.5. Changes in this release include an updated default shader for better [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3oumyJu

Metashape 1.7 released

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Agisoft has announced the release of Metashape 1.7, the latest version of its photogrammetry software. New features include:  (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3hTkIPu

Mesh Contrast plugin for 3ds Max

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Marius Silaghi has released Mesh Contrast, a new modifier for 3ds Max that is designed to enhance the details of [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/38e5xNU

Actorcore mocap library launched

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Reallusion has announced the release of ActorCore. a new cloud-based service that allows users to download motion capture clips and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3nkx9Fc

Animcraft 1.1 released

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Animcraft has announced the release of version 1.1 of its collaborative animation library and editor. Animcraft allows users to retarget and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3nlmqu5

KeenTools 2021.1 for Blender and Nuke released

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KeenTools has announced a new version of KeenTools for Blender and Nuke. Some of the changes in 2021.1 include: (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3nbodSA

Deep FX Studio released

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Deep FX World has announced that Deep FX Studio is now out of beta and available to purchase. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2TbR1yR

AWS joins the Blender development fund

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Last month The Blender Foundation announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3ndvnG3

Push Pro for 3ds Max

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Marius Silaghi has released Push Pro, a new plugin that significantly improves on the standard Push modifier that ships with [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3pYLCIX