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ILM has released a VFX reel for its work on Red Notice. Watch it on YouTube. 

Joker Martini has released a new plugin that can create a variety of different arrow-shaped splines. It costs $4 and is compatible with Max 2016 and above. Find out more on Joker Martini's website. 

Matt Puchala has announced the release of Axiom 2.1 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...)

Entagma has released a tutorial explaining how to render Houdini particles with Blender CyclesX via Geometry Nodes. Watch it on the Entagma website. 

RISE has released its 2021 VFX reel. Watch it on Vimeo. 

Reallusion has announced that it has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Corporate Silver partner pledging €12K per year. (more...)

Pixologic has updated its licensing pages to reflect changes to perpetual licensing offers. According to its upgrade policy, perpetual licenses purchased after December 29 2021 will no longer get free upgrades except for critical bug fixes. (more...)

NVIDIA has announced the latest version of Canvas, its AI-powered painting tool. Version 1.1 includes an AI model with higher definition, higher quality, and fewer artifacts;  the ability to output 4x higher resolution; plus 5 new materials: straw, mud, bush, dirt, and flowers. Find out more about Canvas on the NVIDIA website. 

DNEG has released a breakdown reel for its work on Last Night in Soho. Watch it on YouTube. 

Oday Abuzaeed has released a nice Substance that can procedurally add animatable seamless water drips with several parameters for the number of drips, their scale, normal intensity, the number and the speed of the falling drops, the deformation of shapes, and more. See it in action on Artstation.