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Solid Angle has posted a video showing the new features in the recently released v5 of its Arnold renderer. Watch it on Vimeo.

Foundry has released Modo 11.0, the first installment of the Modo 11 series. The latest version of the Foundry's flagship 3D software brings performance improvements, OpenSubdiv 3 support, new MeshFusion modeling features, enhancements to Auto Retopology, improvements to procedural modeling workflows, a new customizable Tool HUD for faster access to frequently used tools, and more. The company now also offers rental licensing options ($59/month, $599/year) in addition to permanent licenses ($1799), as well as a maintenance plan for the later, which provides updates and technical support over the one-year maintenance term ($399/year). More on the Foundry's website.

A short directed by Canadian artist DaCosta Bayley, created with Blender with the support of Nimble Collective’s Virtual Studio Service Platform. Watch the film on Vimeo and find out more on the film's website.

New features in the open source, cross-platform video editor include: transform tool allows real-time transformations in the video preview window, improvements to zooming in and out of the timeline, enhanced Title Editor and Animated Title Editor, previewing files now has its own dedicated video player, significant performance improvements for real-time previews, razor tool brought back due to users' requests, etc. More on OpenShot's website.

Autodesk's Martin Ashton has posted an article detailing the Max Creation Graph improvements brought by the latest release of 3DS Max. More on Autodesk's Area and Changsoo Eun's website.

Check out the examples and featured projects made with the open source Three.js JavaScript library for creating GPU-accelerated 3D graphics in the browser using WebGL: programming examples, featured projects.

Adobe has updated video and audio applications from its Creative Cloud suite of tools. Premiere Pro gains titling and motion graphics workflow tools through an Essential Graphics panel, After Effects adds a Camera Shake Deblur effect and Lumetri Scopes for accurate color adjustments, Character Animator now animates multiple puppets and offers full body animation with new Walk Cycles, Audition adds multichannel audio workflows, among other enhancements. Creative Cloud is available through rental-only licensing. More on Adobe's website.

Sprytile is an open source Blender add-on by Jeiel Aranal that helps turn 2D tile sets into 3D scenes. Features include: build your mesh directly with tiles skipping tedious UV mapping, pixel grid tools allow to keep your mesh aligned to the grid with pixel translation and move vertices around with confidence. More on the author's website.

CG Studio Map, the open-data center that gathers and shares information about the computer graphics industry, is launching a fundraising campaign to help keep the project alive. "Save a project, buy a t-shirt." You can find CG Studio Map t-shirts on Bonfire.

New features in the open source Blender add-on for creating rigged 3D human and anime models include: support for motion capture, new shaders, improvements to the mesh topologies, anatomy enhancements, new textures, better expressions and rest poses selector. More on Manuel Bastioni's website.