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ToolChefs has announced a new beta version of AtomsUnreal, its plugin for importing animated 3d characters to Unreal. (more...)

UPPERCUT visual technology has announced a new release of U-RENDER, its renderer for Cinema 4D that promises to "bring the latest advancements of realtime rendering to your established rendering pipeline". (more...)

RISE has released a reel of VFX work it completed for Doctor Sleep. Watch it on Vimeo.

Weta Digital has published a video explaining its PhysLight techology, a toolset that enables its Manuka renderer to use physically-accurate parameters such as light temperature, and details of the actual physical cameras used on set. Watch it on YouTube. 

Autodesk has announced an update to the Arnold Core, introducing several new features including: (more...)

Three times Emmy nominated VFX TD/Supervisor and  CG Lead at Muse VFX Stefan Brederick has released his latest reel of fire, smoke and explosion effects plus a few magical fluid simulations. Watch it on YouTube.

Capsule Studio recently completed a great cinematic trailer for the RTS game Iron Harvest by Deep Silver / KING Art Game. Watch it on Vimeo.

VFX Assets has released a free high altitude cloud VDB in 3 voxel sizes tested with Houdini, 3DS Max and Maya. The asset can be downloaded from Gumroad. This is a sample of a larger commercial collection of 60 high altitude clouds, also available from Gumroad.

Chaos Group has announced the release of V-Ray 5 for Maya. New features include:  (more...)

Developer of Dust3D Jeremy Hu announced a new standalone open source remeshing tool called AutoRemesher. (more...)