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Milks 2021 VFX reel

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Milk has published its 2021 VFX reel. Watch it on Vimeo.  Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3lrx8Cn

Hiero Player now free with Nuke

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Foundry has announced that Hiero Player is now available for free to users of Nuke. Find out more on the [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3BZOjRh

Ragdoll Dynamics plugin for Maya

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Ragdoll Dynamis is a plugin for Maya that is designed to enable character animators to work faster and with more [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3C0UjZK

Reality Capture 1.2 released

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Epic Games has announced an update to Reality Capture. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/37eE3WQ

Chaos Cosmos updated with 200 new assets

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Chaos has announced the Chaos Cosmos, its library of free assets included with V-Ray, has been updated with over 200 [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2V5wgZ3

Maya 2022.1 released

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Autodesk has announced the release of Maya 2022.1.  New features include: (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2VmF9gw

Cascadeur 2021.2 released

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Nekki has announced Cascadeur Early Acess version 2. The latest version of its physics powered character animation tool. Features include [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3l96VrP

ActionVFX launches

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ActionVFX has announced that it now offers a subscription plan, in fact, 12 subscription plans with 6 each for individuals [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2UVQW5Y

Polygonflow announces GraphN beta now available

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Former TD and Content Evangelism Lead at Quixel and Epic Games Adnan Chaumette recently launched Polygonflow, a new software development [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2ZtfiSQ

Metasounds for Unreal Engine 5

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Epic Games has released a webinar recording focused on MetaSounds, the new audio system for Unreal Engine. Watch it on [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2WhssnL

Product Visualisation with 3ds Max

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Autodesk has released a new series of 15 tutorials that goes through a complete product visualisation pipeline in 3ds Max. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3y5VG77

FreeMoCap – a free open source markerless motion capture project

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Jon Matthis has released FreeMoCap, a free markerless motion capture software tool that promises to create a “streamlined one-click pipeline [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2TzlTfk

Modo 15.1 released

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Foundry has announced the release of Modo 15.1. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3rC65oL

Unity acquires SpeedTree

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Unity has announced the acquisition of IDV, the makers of the SpeedTree tree and plant modelling tools. According to the [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3iJFsKD

Creature modelling for film with Maya and ZBrush

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Autodesk has released a new 15 part course called Creature modelling for film with Maya and ZBrush. Watch it on [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2TrWXqf

Epic Games acquire Sketchfab

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Epic has announced the acquisition of Sketchfab, a web-based service for viewing, discovering, editing, buying, and selling 3D content. At [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3eG5XPT

Corona Render 7 for 3ds Max released

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Chaos Czech has announced the release of Corona Render 7 for 3ds Max. New features include: (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/36ULBOB

Adobe joins the Blender development fund and announces two new Blender plugins

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The Blender Foundation has announced that Adobe has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Gold Member which contributes to [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2Tn6X3U

Sigershaders XS Material Presets 3 released

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Siger has announced the released of Sigershaders XS Material Presets 3, its collection of plugins and materials for 3ds Max. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3eCeJ1s

Virtucamera app review

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AskNK has reviewed VirtuCamera, an iOS app that allows the user to animate a camera by moving their device. The [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3iyaYLx

Redshift switches to rental only licensing

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Maxon has announced that from August 30 2021,  Redshift will cease the sale of perpetual licenses and only be available [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3eAzaeQ

Scanline VFX’s The Nevers breakdown

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Scanline VFX has released a breakdown reel for its work on The Nevers. Watch it on Vimeo. Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3Bi8r0y

PolyDamage 1.5 for 3ds Max released

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PolyDesign has released a new version of PolyDamage, its plugin for 3ds Max designed to add damage, wear and tear [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3Bi1M6y

Creating a Procedural Coffered Ceiling with 3ds Max and RailClone

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iToo Software has published a tutorial demonstrating how to create procedural objects using 2D arrays in RailClone. Watch or read [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2VXnVXE

Gunpowder short from Supinfocom-Rubika

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After touring film festivals and being awarded Best Student Project at SIGGRAPH, the short film Gunpowder is now available online. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3ewLlJX

Artlist Acquires Software Company FXhome

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Artlist has announced the acquisition of software company FXhome, the developers responsible for HitFilm Pro and other VFX and imaging [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3eoZs3T

Connector adds Unreal support

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Design Connected has announced the its Connecter asset management tool now has Unreal Engine 4 integration. (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3z2zxHa

glTF specification updated to include refraction, colour attenuation, and volumetric properties

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The Khronos Group has announced the public release of the latest set of PBR material extensions for the glTF 3D [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3egi3ig

Howler 2022.1 released

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Daniel Ritchie has released the latest version of Howler, his natural media painting, video, animation, 3D, and visual effects tool. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3xERsTL

Multimax 3ds Max character rig

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Yuri Muzyrya has released MultiMax, an adjustable 3ds Max character rig, that can be set up with minimal rigging skills [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2UF9Jlw

Modeler 2021 released

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Alexey Vanzhula has released a new update to Modeler,  his plugin package for direct modelling in Houdini. New features of [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3i5KX69

Marmoset Toolbag 4.03 released

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Marmoset Toolbag 4.03 has been released. New features include: (more…) Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3wvczqd

Instant Terra 2.3

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Instant Terra 2.3 has been released with new thermal erosion, multi-scale erosion, and mountain ageing erosion nodes. Find out more [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2TST2ms

Nevercenter updated Unreal-powered real-time renderer and VR viewer Milo.

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

Blender Guru’s renderer comparison

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Blender Guru has published a video comparing the main render engines including Cycles, V-Ray, Redshift, Luxcore, Arnold, Corona, Octane, E-Cycles [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2UyDGDB

Rookies finalists announced

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The finalists have been announced for this year’s Rookies, a series of industry-specific awards aimed at up and coming artists [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2VhxU9K

Amazon’s Lumberyard in now open source

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Amazon has announced that Lumberyard, its 3D Game engine originally licensed from Crytek, is now open source under an Apache [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/2TD1WEI

Getting started with USD and Hydra in V-Ray

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Chaos has published a blog plot explaining what USD is, how it works, and how it can be used in [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3yyBR8w

Silverwing’s “Loveletter Animation”

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Talented Germany-based artist Raphael Rau (Silverwing) has made available a great video as part of his “任天堂ホ Loveletter” project dedicated [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3dRlaNt

Summer of Unreal – applications now open

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Epic Games is running a month-long Unreal Engine training bootcamp aimed the animation or 3D CGI industry in Europe. [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/36dS1Il

Penzil – web-based 3D sketching

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Jacopo Colò has released Penzil, a free 3D sketching app that works in the browser but is capable of exporting [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3jNhr7m

Smooth Bridge modifier for 3ds Max

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KM-3D has updated its Smooth Bridge modifier for 3ds Max. The handy plugin is able to smoothly bridge two open [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3Arw3PQ

GitHub announces Copilot – an AI powered programming tool

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GitHub and OpenAI has announced Copilot, an AI pair programmer that helps developers to write code faster and with less [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3qJAaCr

RenderMan for Blender 24.0 released

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Pixar has released a completely rewritten version RenderMan for Blender that takes advantage of the features in the latest version [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3ybjt5g

Catch up with 3ds Max – Autodesk Webinar

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Autodesk has published the recording of a recent webinar with some of the 3ds Max development team to explain some [...] Read more from CGPress news https://ift.tt/3qFWblJ