This tutorial by Southernshotty demonstrates how to create, texture, and paint a character from scratch. Watch it on YouTube.

Exoside has announced the release of Quad Remesher for Blender. The plugin is an auto-retopology tool created by Maxime Rouca, the developer of ZRemesher, capable of working on hard-surface as well as organic objects. To learn more, visit the Quadremesher website. 

NVIDIA has announced it has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron level sponsor. The 120,000 € per year donation is said to keep two full-time developers working on Blenders core and ensure NVIDIAs GPU technology is supported. The only other company funding at Patron level is Epic Games who recently awarded the Blender Foundation a $1.2 million mega grant. To see the list of sponsors, visit Blender.org

Catch up with last week's CG news in a vlog by Juan Gea from Bone Studio. Watch now on YouTube (English | Spanish).

Version 2.2 of LuxCoreRenderer has been released. The new version adds PhotonGI indirect light cache, integrated Intel Open Image Denoiser v1.0, new improved Random/Sobol sampler adaptive code, front and back material transparency (aka light invisible object), New textures (Power, Less Than, Greater Than, Dot Product, Position, Shading Normal, etc.), Shadow catcher is now easier to use with multiple light sources of any type, support for Disney BRDF materials, Hybrid Back/Forward path-tracing support and much more (more...)

Here's this week's news roundup vlog by Juan Gea from Bone Studio  Each Friday we will share a recording of Juan's livestream in which he summarises relevant events from the previous week, many of which have been featured on CGPress but you may have missed. You can also tune in live every Thursday at 16:00 CEST for English and 22:00 for Spanish on the Bone Studio YouTube channel.  The new recording covers Rocket 3F, Unity Copenhagen, Speedtree for Blender, Luxion VR 9.0 and much more. Watch now on YouTube (English | Spanish).

Here's this week's news roundup vlog by Juan Gea from Bone Studio  Each Friday we will share a recording of Juan's livestream in which he summarises relevant events from the previous week, many of which have been featured on CGPress but you may have missed. You can also tune in live every Thursday at 16:00 CEST for English and 22:00 for Spanish on the Bone Studio YouTube channel.  The new recording covers the the end of Adobe Fuse, Applessed 2.1, Quixels new licensing and more. Watch now on YouTube (English | Spanish).

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.

The Blender Foundation has announced the results of this year's Google Summer of Code. This year 7 projects were completed including Outliner improvements, the improvement of Cycles and EEVEE for Procedural Content Creation, Core support of VR headsets through OpenXR, Bevel Custom Profiles, Intel Embree BVH for GPU, Cloth Simulator improvements, and continued Development on the LANPR Engine. Read more about these on the Blender Developer blog.

We are pleased to announce a new collaboration with Juan Gea from Bone Studio to bring you a weekly vlog summarising the latest news. (more...)