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Rise has released a reel for its VFX work on Stowaway. Watch it on Vimeo. 

Chaos Czech has announced the release of Chaos Corona 8 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4d. New features include: (more...)

Matt Puchala has announced the release of Axiom 2.2 for Houdini, the latest version of his volumetric fluid simulator that can run true sparse simulations fully on a GPU for the fast creation of fire, smoke, and other pyrotechnic effects. (more...)

Unity Technologies has announced the release of Unity 2021 LTS, the latest version of its annually released branch or the popular real time engine. The release incorporates the features released in the Unity 2021.1 and Unity 2021.2 Tech Stream releases with an additional six months of refinement. Details of what's new can be found on the Unity blog. 

Epic Games has published two detailed videos discussing the Matrix Awakens tech demo created with Unreal Engine 5. Watch them on YouTube Creating a World | Generating a world.

MPC has released a new showreel of VFX work. Watch it on YouTube. 

AXYZ Design has released a sneak peek video showing a real-time preview made using UE5 and Anima 5  due out in beta soon. The characters in the foreground are Metropoly 4D digital humans, and in the background, Anima's new neural crowds feature can be seen. Watch it on YouTube. 

Bluebolt has released a VFX reel for its work on The final series of The Last Kingdom. Watch it on Vimeo. 

3D Scan Store has released Oldify, a new toolset that allows users to quickly age characters. (more...)

Design Connected has announced the release of Connector 4, the latest version of its asset management tool for 3DS Max. New features of the paid Server edition include a version control toolkit, pipeline management using Workflows, support for many cloud storage providers, plus improved security. (more...)