Reels
Digic Picture’s 2019 – 2019 reel
Budapest-based Digic pictures has released their latest reel of animation and VFX work. Watch it on YouTube.
Reels
Budapest-based Digic pictures has released their latest reel of animation and VFX work. Watch it on YouTube.
Short Films
Ruairi Robinson's latest short film Corporate Monster is now available to watch free online. All the FX in this sci-fi horror short were created by a small team using 3DS Max, V-Ray and SynthEyes for all the tracking. Watch it on YouTube.
Tutorials
Rusty Hazelden has published a free 4 part tutorial that explains the fundamentals of V-Ray in Maya. Instead of using an abstract collection of exercises, he explains how to create a fake paint advertisement that features several fluids. The videos are free to view on YouTube, but you can support Rusty by purchasing the project files from Gumroad.
Tutorials - 3DS Max
Ben Cloward, the co-author of ShaderFX, has made an old training set called HLSL shader fundamentals available to download online. The lessons appear to be released one per day on YouTube, but you can download the entire DVD including all the shaders and content from a link in the video's description.
Software
Apseren Industries has released a terrain generator that uses a neural network trained on handmade 3D models. (more...)
Software
Adobe has announced a new feature coming soon to Premiere Pro that "intelligently reframes and reformats video content for different aspect ratios, from square to vertical to cinematic 16:9 versions". See a sneak peek on YouTube.
Software - 3DS Max
Chaos Group has released a new Beta for Phoenix FD4, codenamed 3.99. (more...)
Software - 3DS Max
A new version of Appleseed, the open-source renderer aimed at animation and VFX, is out now. Version 2.1 includes support for Cryptomatte AOVs, render checkpointing for resuming mult-pass renders, support for OSL shaders, a fisheye camera, the ability to control samples using a black and white mask, filter importance sampling, and more. Appleseed plugins are available for Blender, 3DS Max and Maya. For more information and to download visit GitHub, to find out more about the project you can visit the Appleseed website.
Resources
Quixel has announced that the points cost of assets in its Megascans library of 3D scanned textures and models have been reduced. All surfaces now cost 2 points, 3d asset 4 points, and everything else is 1 point. Existing subscribers have also been given an additional 100 points. to give you an idea of a dollar-cost for those points, the lowest subscription tier starts at $19 a month for 60 points. At this level, a 3D asset costs $1.27, a surface $0.63 and everything else is $0.32. Find out more on the Quixel blog.
Houdini
Kamil Wacławiak has released GroomBear, a toolkit for Houdini that allows you to create and modify guides or cards. It comprises a Groom node that contains a number of grooming tools for short and long hair. Designed to use with a radial menu for faster workflow, several brushes, and a cards node that allows you to convert guides to template geometry. The Tool is available from Gumroad for $59.
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