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The Mill has posted a video giving us a glimpse of how created a digital avatar of Einstein. Watch it on YouTube. 

Milk VFX has published its breakdown reel for season 1 of Intergalactic. Watch it on Vimeo.

Evermotion has announced a new subscription for buying its assets for archviz. Evermotion Pass gives users access to the entire library through one of 5 monthly or annual subscription plans. All plans are based on purchasing credits which can also be topped up through one-off credit packs. Find out more on Evermotion's website. 

Adobe has announced a minor update to Photoshop adding a new option to save a copy to the file menu, an improved interface for the neural filters and support for ARM devices on Windows. Find out more in the documentation. 

OTOY has announced the release of Sculptron 1.1, the latest version of its tool for sculpting animated meshes using GPU acceleration. New features include Alembic support, improved, accurate viewport item selection, the ability to use procedural and texture images directly as an alpha, and windows opacity options. Find out more on the OTOY forum.

Thinkinetic has announced a new release of its destruction plugin Pulldownit for Maya. (more...)

Insydium, the creators of XParticles for Cinema4D, has announced the acquisition of Terraform4D, a "versatile, art-directable terrain generation system". Read more on Insydium's website. 

Autodesk has announced the public beta of a USD plugin for 3ds Max 2022. (more...)

Pixamoon has released Library Track/Relink, a new script for 3ds Max that is able to organise, collect or relink multiple .max, .mat, and xref files without needing to open them.  Features include (more...)

Ben McEwan has released a free short course titled "The Maths of Comp" that aims to expand users' technical understanding of Nuke.  Spread over 3 concise lessons, topics include math of how the Grade Node works, followed by a demonstration of how different methods of matching black levels affect your images differently; a look at how transforming an image filters its pixels,; and finally, a look at how data on a pixel level can provide greater flexibility when manipulating images. Watch it on Ben McEwan's website.