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Karlay Souza has released an upgrade to MeshMolder Professional, his low-cost sculpting application for Windows. (more...)

SideFX has announced that Houdini Engine for UE4 and Unity are now available for commercial customers for free. Previously the engines were free Houdini Indie customers, but this announcement gives commercial artists and studios the same ability to deploy procedural assets created in Houdini to UE4 and Unity at no additional cost. Read the announcement in full on . 

The Blender team has released a new video to share what's new in Blender 2.92 in less than 5 minutes. Watch it on YouTube. 

It is with sadness that we report that Cinefex magazine, that great stalwart of the VFX industry, is closing its doors after 41 years of publishing. The announcement cites the Corona virus as a major contributing factor for the closure, depriving the magazine of subject matter, retail outlets, and advertisers. Issue 172 will be the last, though several back issues are still available. 

NVIDIA has announced that an Omnivers Connector plugin is now available for 3ds Max. Get it from NVIDIA's website. 

CGarchitect has published the results of a survey that asked the industry to evaluate the impact of the COVID pandemic on business. Read it on CGarchitect. 

Chaos Group has updated its online documentation to reveal the features of V-Ray 5 update 1. Headline features include: (more...)

Chaos Group Czech has announced the launch of Corona Academy online. Formally the only way to get training directly from the Corona team was to attend in person. According to the announcement, this arrangement was designed to create a network of certified instructors that could run their own courses and train other teachers and students but was prohibitively expensive for end-users. With over 100 instructors now certified, the announcement claims the course had served its purpose and that COVID pandemic had only accelerated plans that were already in place. (more...)

Goodbye Kansas Studio has released a short breakdown reel of its work for A Discovery of Witches season 2. Watch it on Vimeo.

Not content with the usual annual showreel, the Corona team have released a total of seven over the last few months. You can watch them all on YouTube.