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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 on the Wysilab website.

Nevercenter has announced a new update to Milo, its real-time renderer and VR viewer powered by Epic Games' Unreal Engine. This version adds real-time raytracing support as well as a night option to the Sky background, improved colour choosers, and more. (more...)

Blender Guru has published a video comparing the main render engines including Cycles, V-Ray, Redshift, Luxcore, Arnold, Corona, Octane, E-Cycles and Cycles X. (more...)

The finalists have been announced for this year's Rookies, a series of industry-specific awards aimed at up and coming artists trying to break into the CG Industry. Read more and vote for contestants on the Rookies website. 

Amazon has announced that Lumberyard, its 3D Game engine originally licensed from Crytek, is now open source under an Apache 2.0 license. Read more on the new Open 3d Engine website. 

Chaos has published a blog plot explaining what USD is, how it works, and how it can be used in V-Ray 5. Read in on the Chaos blog. 

Epic Games is running a month-long Unreal Engine training bootcamp aimed the animation or 3D CGI industry in Europe. (more...)

Jacopo Colò has released Penzil, a free 3D sketching app that works in the browser but is capable of exporting to Blender. It can be used on desktop, but it has been particularly designed with the intention of using it on touch devices like tablets. See a short demo on YouTube and try it for yourself at www.penzil.app.

KM-3D has updated its Smooth Bridge modifier for 3ds Max. The handy plugin is able to smoothly bridge two open edge loops, even with unequal edge counts. (more...)

GitHub and OpenAI has announced Copilot, an AI pair programmer that helps developers to write code faster and with less work by suggesting autocompletion based on context drawn from comments and code. (more...)