Epic Games has released a webinar recording in which they introduce Unreal Studio’s look-development tools and explain how they can be used to light, texture, and render an automotive asset in combination with Substance, and X-Rite. Scene files are provided should you want to follow along. Watch the tutorial on Epic's blog.

RE:Vision Effects has announced RE:Grade a new plugin for  After Effects and Premiere Pro that adds tools to "manipulate contrast, saturation, and exposure to create super sharp imagery even from video that might be considered unusable".  RE:Grade costs $99.95 per license that works with both Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro. Find out more on RE:Vision Effect's website.

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Pixomondo has released a new reel for its VFX work on the film Goosebumps 2. Watch it on YouTube.

KeyShot 8.2 has been released adding the ability to pause offline renders, Interior mode speed and performance improvements, vertical orientation for Presentation Mode, the ability to use the shift-key with drag-and-drop to add sub-materials, the addition of network Rendering for Linux, support for Alembic Vertex Color/Deformable Curves, Autodesk Revit 2019 Import and updated integrations for Solidworks, PTC Creo, Fusion 360 and Cinema 4D.  Find out more on the Keyshot blog.

Vlado has posted a short video preview of V-Ray Next Update 2 to his YouTube channel. The video shows improvements for scenes with many lights sources, up to thousands. According to the description, Update 2 will feature up to 2x faster light cache for scenes with many lights, an improved algorithm for discovering important light sources to reduce flickering when using adaptive lights, and faster BF+BF rendering when adaptive lights are not available. Watch the clip on YouTube. 

France-based Hocus Pocus Studios has released their latest reel of 3D animation and VFX work. Watch it on Vimeo.

Epic Games has announced a preview release of Unreal Engine 4.22 bringing support for real-time ray tracing, Editor Utility Widgets, Blueprint indexing optimizations, virtual production updates, Oculus Quest support the Unreal Audio Engine and more. See the announcement on Epic's blog and a full list of changes on the forum.