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SideFX has announced that Houdini Engine for UE4 and Unity are now available for commercial customers for free. Previously the engines [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3ktcyi5

The Blender team has released a new video to share what’s new in Blender 2.92 in less than 5 minutes. Watch [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3stTzqt

It is with sadness that we report that Cinefex magazine, that great stalwart of the VFX industry, is closing its [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2MwZ0Wy

NVIDIA has announced that an Omnivers Connector plugin is now available for 3ds Max. Get it from NVIDIA’s website.  Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3sss6Wd

CGarchitect has published the results of a survey that asked the industry to evaluate the impact of the COVID pandemic on [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37NqEpr

Chaos Group has updated its online documentation to reveal the features of V-Ray 5 update 1. Headline features include: (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2NPT9Mn

Chaos Group Czech has announced the launch of Corona Academy online. Formally the only way to get training directly from the [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3aJ9gEg

A great animated short about addiction to mobile phones by Japan-based artists Brent Forrest and Tobias Schlage. Watch Like And [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3umMgmv

Check out two great spots created for the SYFY Channel’s Late Night Animation Block by Sam Stephens and Christopher Mauch [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3btqhSc

Following the announcement last week of Metahuman Creator, a new human creation tool, Epic has now released a 40 minute tutorial [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3k5OiTc

Goodbye Kansas Studio has released a short breakdown reel of its work for A Discovery of Witches season 2. Watch [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3py8sGt

Not content with the usual annual showreel, the Corona team have released a total of seven over the last few [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2OTzkUR

MX Tools has released a new Decal Placer tool for 3ds Max. Find out more on Gumroad.   Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37xoURk

Poly Design has released PolySnow Plus. a new C++ version of its plugin for 3ds Max dedicated to adding snow [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3u82UWU

Neil Blevins has released a new tutorial explaining how to use Wiremaker, a script that allows users to create and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37k3bfg

Mihail Lupu has released a new HairCards Tool for 3ds Max. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3bfHdLG

Pixomondo has released a making-of video for its work on Sprite Sisters, a German film for kids. Watch it on [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37mBimZ

Godot has announced they have received a $120,000 grant from Kefir to contribute toward the development of its open-source games [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3b9HZtD

IMesh has published a video explaining how the new features of E-Cycles for Blender can benefit archviz renders along with [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3akcvSv

SideFX has released a new tutorial series that goes over the process of simulating a full wine glass being shot [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3rZSeYa

ESRI has announced a new plugin for Unreal Engine called Vitruvio that brings CityEngine’s procedural modeling technology to Unreal Engine. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3qmhmbv

NVIDIA has announced the availability of a plugin for Unreal Engine that brings its DLSS technology to the popular real-time [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3d8i3RW

FXGuide has published an interesting article on how ILM’s StageCraft 2.0 virtual production system was used for the new LED [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37bsFLQ

Quixel has published a 9 part tutorial demonstrating how to create a medieval game environment in Unreal Engine using Megascans [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3aVMAzB

Arrimus3D has released a new tutorial explaining what he describes as Max’s most underrated feature – Splines. Watch it on [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3aWVKM5

Adobe has released a new 7 part tutorial series focused on using Substance for Fashion design. Watch it on YouTube.  Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/370V4Eo

E-On Software has announced the release of VUE & PlantFactory 2021.1. New features include: (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3jFBp1S

Epic has announced they are working on a new tool for creating high-fidelity digital humans slated for release later this [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3q7mTlW

Wysilab has released two videos demonstrating new animation and rendering features in Instant Terra 2.0. Two videos are available, one [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Z3pJwr

Kinematic Lab has announced the release of PhysXpainter 2.0, its instance painting tool for 3ds Max that runs a simulation [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Z3dL5T

Serif has announced the release of Affinity suite 1.9 with updates to Publisher, Designer and Photo. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3cR5eeD

Adobe has announced that Rhinoceros 7.0 now includes PBR material including support for Substance materials.  The Substance Importer plug-in for Rhino [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2YXGKrW

Unity Technologies has released a video outlining the new features available in Shader Graph implemented in version 2020.2. This includes the changes [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3cQINWR

GRisk has announced FlowBlur-App, an open source windows application that uses AI to apply motion blur to existing footage (and renders) using [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2LiSSAD

U-Render 2021.1.3 for Cinema 4D has been released with an improved UI, smart material presets, and several more fixes and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3oMjveI

SideFX has released a short film called The Dawning made by 17 artists using Houdini. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3pXKllq

Rodeo FX has made available a VFX breakdown of the work the studio did for Coyote, the border patrol drama [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3pKzn2J

The Animation Workshop, known for remarkable films such as The Saga of Biorn, The Shepherd and Interview, will be hosting [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/36y55Jc

Autodesk has announced the release of Arnold 6.2. New features include new lightmix, bloom and denoise post-processing nodes; several GPU [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3aDiEZ5

Digital Domain has posted a video of their experiments in digital mask removal using Charlatan, their proprietary neural renderer. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3cwuW84

Bondware has announced the release of Poser 12, its standalone tool for modelling and manipulating assets of human and animal [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3rgT7LT

Adobe has announced several updates to its Substance product line, including several interesting sneak peeks at R&D for future releases.  [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/39B08Ry

Cebas Visual Technology has announced the latest update to thinkingParticles. Features of Subscription Drop 10 include the addition of a [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3oCdP71