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State of Art Academy has announced that it's annual Archviz conference will be taking place online between December 3rd and 4th, 2020. (more...)

The Blender Foundation has announced that it is now an official Associate Member of The Khronos Group, an open industry consortium of over 150 hardware and software companies creating advanced, royalty-free, acceleration standards for 3D graphics, Augmented and Virtual Reality, vision and machine learning. (more...)

NDunes, the 3D real-time platform that's designed for assembling large scale worlds, has been updated with several new features including a new real-time 3D clouds rendering system, landscape sculpting brushes, camera tracks and more.  (more...)

A new update has been released for Voxel Plugin, the add on for Unreal that allows users to use voxels to create fully volumetric, infinite landscapes.  (more...)

Updated Houdini 18.5 has been officially released. New features include:  (more...)

A new sneak peek video of Keyshot 10 has been released. Watch it on YouTube. 

Adobe has announced an update to Photoshop that adds several new filters powered by "AI". Several Machine Learning filters ship with this release although some are still considered at the beta stage. Of particular interest are the new Neural Filters, a new Sky Replacement tool, a discover tab that trys to help you work faster and offers tips, and Object Aware Refine Edge and Refine Hair tools. Read more about it on Adobe's blog. 

Ftrack, has announced the official availability of the Unreal Engine and Unity plugins for ftrack Studio, its production tracking, asset management and media review applications.  (more...)

Quixel has announced an update to it Megascans plugin for unreal that adds several improvements. The headline feature is the completely revamped Verted Blend material (more...)

Erik Lehmann, a Senior 3D artist at Cinesite, has released Build Kit 1.0, a handy collection of tools that features mesh, selection, layout and import & export operations to speed up everyday tasks inside of Autodesk Maya. Watch a trailer on YouTube, see a list of all the tools in the documentation, and purchase from Gumroad.