Breakdowns
Scanline VFX’s Ant Man and the Wasp VFX breakdown
Scanline VFX has released a breakdown for its work on Ant Man and the Wasp. Watch it on Vimeo.
Breakdowns
Scanline VFX has released a breakdown for its work on Ant Man and the Wasp. Watch it on Vimeo.
Industry News
Epic Games, the publishers of many well-known games franchises including Fortnite and the developer of Unreal Engine has received an investment of approximately $1.25 billion from a handful of investment firms and companies in the technology, entertainment, professional sports, esports, and live events industries. Read the full press release on BusinessWire.
Software
FXhome has released Imerge Pro, a new image compositing application that promises a fully non-destructive workflow working with RAW images, with no need to compress an image to 8-bit just to apply an effect, and the ability to edit the effect at any time. (more...)
Maya
Sitni Sati has announced the latest release or FumeFX for Maya. Version 5 includes improved integration with Maya, a redesigned simulation core, GPU accelerated display that's integrated with Viewport 2.0, improved CPU usage for the QCG Solver, improved Arnold support and more. Find out more about the release on Sitni Sati's website.
Software
Update: Since this story was reported, Bounding Box Software has made the Materialize app open source under a GPL 3 license. The source code, which is built on the Unity game engine, can now be forked on Github here.
Materialize, a free texture generating tool we featured last week has just been open sourced under the GPL 3 license. Materialize enables you to quickly create texture maps such as Normal, Edge, Ambient Occlusion and Height from a single Diffuse map. It was built using the Unity game engine and the author is hoping to see Mac and Linux ports as a result of the open sourcing. The source code is available on Github right here. Simply clone the repository and import into a recent version of Unity game engine to run. (more...)
Maya
Chaos Group has released a teaser video showcasing some of the features expected in the soon-to-be-released V-Ray Next for Maya. Watch it on YouTube.
Houdini
SideFX Lead Instructor Ari Danesh has recorded a 2-hour masterclass on the workflow for creating terrains in Houdini 17, including an in-depth description of the new erosion model. Watch it on Vimeo.
Software
Alexander Shatalov has released version 2 of All Right Rig, a plugin for creating character rigs and animations in Unreal Engine 4. (more...)
Resources
Unity Technologies has released a free sample project that demonstrates layout tips from recent projects like Adam 2: The Mirror and Baymax Dreams. It is intended to be used as a starting point for users to explore and create their own cinematic project. (more...)
Software
Effective TDs has announced an update to Storm, its standalone granular simulation tool created by Sebastian Schäfer. (more...)
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