VRayGuide has released a tutorial for Phoenix FD that demonstrates how to simulate a ship sailing on a large body of water. Scene files are available. Watch it on YouTube. 

CLO Virtual Fashion has announced the release of Marvelous Designer 9. (more...)

CG Channel has posted a detailed group test of Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX graphics cards. Read it in full on CG Channel.

This tutorial by Southernshotty demonstrates how to create, texture, and paint a character from scratch. Watch it on YouTube.

Greg Zaal, the creator of HDRO Haven and Texture Haven,  has announced that thanks to a $10000 grant from Epic Games he and Cameron Casey will soon launch a new project called 3D Model Haven. Similar to the other sites, this will offer high-quality free 3D assets. According to Zaal, "The Epic grant will cover the work required to get the site up and running with some decent initial content, but after that, we'll be relying on Patreon support just like HDRI and Texture Haven to keep it going." The 3D Model Haven site is already live. but at present features just a coming soon message. We'll report more information as it becomes available. 

Exoside has announced the release of Quad Remesher for Blender. The plugin is an auto-retopology tool created by Maxime Rouca, the developer of ZRemesher, capable of working on hard-surface as well as organic objects. To learn more, visit the Quadremesher website. 

EA has announced an open-source library called Dem Bones. The library implements the state-of-the-art skinning decomposition solution that was first introduced in a SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 technical paper called “Smooth Skinning Decomposition with Rigid Bones” by Binh Le and Zhigang Deng. (more...)

Adobe has announced that its software services will no longer be available in Venezuela in compliance with US sanctions implemented by President Donald Trump in August. Existing users have until 28 October to download any cloud-based content, after which time accounts will be deactivated. According to Adobe's help pages, there is no date at present for reinstating the services but they "will continue to monitor developments closely and will make every effort to restore services to Venezuela as soon as it is legally permissible to do so". Due to its subscription model, this means users will not be able to continue to use the software, nor can they buy a standalone version. Behance is not affected by this sanction. Read more on Adobe's help site.