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The Blender Foundation has revealed its roadmap for 2021, Read it here.

Praxinos has releaesed a video of EPOS, its Unreal Engine plugin for Unreal Engine that aims to combine 2D drawing with Unreal Engine's 3D capabilities to speed up storyboard creation. Watch the video on YouTube and find out more about the plugin, including an option to become a tester, on Praxinos' website. 

Crea3D has released Camera Studio, a commercial script for 3ds Max that aims to simplify and speed up the creation of camera animations. The script costs $19.  Find out more on ScriptSpot. 

UPDATED The Rural Australia nature pack used to create Andrew Hamilton's impressive real-time project based on his time living and working in Australia has been added to the permanently free collection on Unreal Marketplace. (more...)

Ben Wilson has published a 3 part blog post the explores how to use Substance Designer's Pixel Processor to create a "Flood Fill To Corners" node. Read it on ArtStation.

In this GTC talk, Autodesk's Henrik Edstrom and Mauricio Vives discuss the architecture and implementation of their next-generation viewport system and how they leverage DXR and Vulkan Ray Tracing to improve the visual quality and performance over our previous viewport experience. The system is used in 3DS Max, Inventor, Fusion 360, Revit, AutoCAD, and more. The video is available free on the GTC website, but registration is required. 

Toolchefs has announced the release of Atoms VFX 4. New features include a new behaviour tree module, the ability to import Mixamo characters, a new debugger window, Houdini crowd converters, Atoms UI improvements and much more. See a full list in the release notes. 

NVIDIA has released two new RTX demo videos showcasing the latest technology. (more...)

Chaos has announced an update to Chaos Vantage, its real-time raytracing standalone rendering tool. New features and improvements include: (more...)

Chaos has announced an update to Phoenix, its fluid and dynamics simulation plugin for 3ds Max and Maya. New features include: (more...)