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La Traversée short film from ESMA

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French school ESMA keeps raising the quality of its films. La Traversée (The Journey) is one of the best to [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2PHQhT0

Epic Games acquires ArtStation

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Epic Games has announced the acquisition of ArtStation, the popular portfolio, jobs, training and marketplace for digital artists.  According to [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3aU8TX9

3ds Max Indie is now available in Latin America

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3ds Max’s Indie pricing has been extended to Latin America. Artists in these countries who earn less than $100,000 can [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3t4jc1e

Amazon announces Nimble Studio

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Amazon Web Services has announced that Nimble Studio is now available. Nimble Studio is a new managed service designed to [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3aOm8IZ

Select Similar Pro for 3ds Max

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Select Similar Pro is a new commercial script by Crea3D that selects not just objects of the same type, but [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3e2QB87

Evermotion compares the speed of Cycles X for archviz

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Evermotion has published a video comparing the speed of Cycles X to the current version using some of its archviz [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2PzUGY7

Post Production using the V-Ray 5 VFB

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State of Art academy has publishes two posts exploring how you can use V-Ray 5’s VFB for post-production. In part [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2RdICvO

Using MetaHuman Characters with Golaem

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The Golaem team has released a new tutorial explaining how to use Metahuman characters with its crowd simulation plugin for [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3vuQBn8

Layama 1.5 released

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Motiva has announced Layama 1.5, the latest version of its tool Unreal, 3ds Max and Blender tool for creating 360-degree [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32Uu3zU

Grooming for real-time realism: hair and fur with Unreal Engine

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Epic Games has published a free white paper that describes how you can use Unreal Engine to generate real-time hair and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3gKnnww

Godot 3.3 now available

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A new version of the open-source game engine Godot is now available. Version 3.3 was originally intended as a minor [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3xEUZCf

Deadline now supports 10 workers in license free mode

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AWS Thinkbox has announced the release of Deadline 10.1.15.2, a minor update in many ways with the exception of the [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32SmjOZ

Quixel teases Mixer 2021

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Quixel has posted a teaser for Mixer 2021 that announces (very briefly) multiple texture sets, UDIMs, painting across texture sets, [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32RNvxh

Evermotion’s interior lighting tutorial

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Evermotion has launched a new series of free tutorials aimed at archviz artists. In the first episode they tackle how [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Ps6ifz

Chaos Garage podcast’s new series on NFTs

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Chaos has announced that its Chaos Garage Podcast has started a new 4 part series focused on NFTs. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3nnuT1K

Maxon’s 2021 showreel

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Maxon has released its 2021 showreel featuring customer work created using Cinema 4D, Red Giant and Redshift. Watch it on [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3aEPd9C

MaxCopyPaste

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The latest commercial script by Crea3D adds some interesting extras to the other copy and paste Scripts currently on the [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3aFQsp5

CineSync gets 360° video review

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Ftrack has announced the release of CineSync 4.2.3. New features include support full support for equirectangular 360 video content, animation [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3ev5dwa

Cycles X announced

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The Blender Foundation has taken the opportunity to use Cycle’s 10th anniversary to announce Cycles X, a new project that [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3aF7Ryc

Unigine 2.14 released with clouds, a new landscape generator, and upgraded water system and much more

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Real-time engine Unigine 2.14 has been released with a host of new features including a full set of cloud types, [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3gucsqK

Blender 2021 roadmap revealed

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The Blender Foundation has revealed its roadmap for 2021, Read it here. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3gtOVpU

EPOS storyboarding plugin for Unreal Engine

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Praxinos has releaesed a video of EPOS, its Unreal Engine plugin for Unreal Engine that aims to combine 2D drawing [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3tNT3Vk

Camera Studio plugin for 3ds Max

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Crea3D has released Camera Studio, a commercial script for 3ds Max that aims to simplify and speed up the creation [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3v7LKs3

Memories of Australia

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UPDATED The Rural Australia nature pack used to create Andrew Hamilton’s impressive real-time project based on his time living and [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2V0PQ5B

Learning Substance’s Pixel Processor node

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Ben Wilson has published a 3 part blog post the explores how to use Substance Designer’s Pixel Processor to create [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Pb1F9y

Incorporating real-time ray tracing in Autodesk’s next-generation viewport system

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In this GTC talk, Autodesk’s Henrik Edstrom and Mauricio Vives discuss the architecture and implementation of their next-generation viewport system and how [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3vhXwjN

NVIDIA’s RTX demos

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NVIDIA has released two new RTX demo videos showcasing the latest technology. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3ahOpaC

Nevercenter launches Unreal-powered real-time renderer and VR viewer Milo, alongside major Silo update

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Nevercenter has announced the release of Milo, a new standalone real-time renderer and VR viewer powered by Epic Games’ Unreal [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32m76W8

Chaos Vantage 1.2 released

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Chaos has announced an update to Chaos Vantage, its real-time raytracing standalone rendering tool. New features and improvements include: [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3sppXdE

Phoenix 4 update 4 for 3ds Max and Maya

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Chaos has announced an update to Phoenix, its fluid and dynamics simulation plugin for 3ds Max and Maya. New features [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/32oPxVi

Epic’s Metahuman Creator early access now available

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Updated. Epic has announced an early access version of MetaHuman Creator is now available. Readers can apply to gain early access, [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3q7mTlW

Redshift for MacOS now available

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Maxon has announced the release of Redshift renderer for macOS including support for M1-powered Macs as well as Apple’s Metal [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3sib90i

Cascadeur early access version now available

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Nekki has announced the release of an early access version of Cascadeur, its new character animation software that promises to [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3sfT7eX

Cinema 4D S24 released with new placement tools and more

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Maxon has announced Cinema 4D S24, the latest subscription-only release of Maxon’s 3D application. Headline features include: (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2OLJ0kq

LuxCoreRenderer 2.5 released

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Version 2.5 of LuxCoreRenderer has been released. The new version adds OptiX/RTX acceleration, non-uniform camera bokeh, new AOVs, randomised texture [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2RkVvEu

3DCoat 2021 beta announced

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Pilgway has announced a new beta of 3dCoat 2021. New features include (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3255HmM

VR-Plugin 6.0 for Maya 2022 released

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VR-Plugin for Maya allows artists to work with Maya in Virtual Reality. According to the developers, using the plugin users [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3dT0rIA

IFL Turbo for 3ds Max

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Boomer Labs has announced a public beta for IFL Turbo, a new plugin IFL file loader, cache and resizer for [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Rjg0kX

Instant Terra 2.1 released

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Wysilab has announced the release of Instant Terra 2.1. This version adds the ability to use additional data sources in [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3unwnvc

Virtual Production Field Guide volume 2

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Epic Games has released the second volume of its field guide for virtual production. Find out more and download it [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3fREYlM

Virtual Museums of Malopolska makes 1000 model public domain

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The Virtual Museums of Malopolska project’s new website makes over 1000 scanned assets from its collections available to download via [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2RfNn8p

Modelling interiors with 3ds Max 2022’s Smart Extrude feature

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ArchViz Artist has released a new tutorial that explore how 3ds Max 2022’s improved Smart Extrude feature can save time [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2PYWNEz

The virtual production of The Mandalorian, season two

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ILM has released a 7-minute featurette that explores Stagecraft 2.0, their virtual production tool used on The Mandalorian, season two. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3dGwV8C

MagicTints 2.0 gains ability to export LUTs

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Anastasiy has announced the release of MagicTints 2.0, the latest version of its machine learning plugin for Adobe applications that [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3umGe4c

How to use Forest Pack’s Custom Edit mode

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iToo Software has release a back to basics tutorial that explains how to use Forest Pack’s Custom Edit mode that [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2OccjMO

Golaem announces a free crowd TD training course

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Golaem has announced a free live training academy to help users become crowd artists. It comprises 4 sessions each of [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3cJkVUN

Pulze Scene Manager 2.1 released

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Pulze has announced the latest version of its Scene Manager plugin for 3ds Max. New features in version 2.1 include: [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/31DfL6f

Cesium for Unreal released

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Cesium has announced an open-source plugin for Unreal Engine that brings its 3D geospatial data to the popular real-time engine. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3cH3Vyr