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. 

Version 2.6 of LuxCoreRenderer has been released. The new version adds support for OpenColourIO 2 and improves the performance of rendering mesh lights by up to 3 times. Other improvements include updates to Embree and OIDN, the UVRandomMapping2D and LocalRandomMapping3D gain the ability to use step values, plus many more improvements. LucCoreRender 2.5 is open source under the Apache License Version 2.0. Find out more on the LuxCoreRenderer website and read the list of new features in the release notes.