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Reels

V-Ray 2021 reel

Chaos has released its 2021 V-Ray showreel. Watch it on YouTube.

Comments (1) | Posted Tue Sep 21, 2021

Software

NVIDIA Canvas adds support for custom styles

NVIDIA's AI powered painting tool, Canvas, has added the ability to use custom style transfer presets alongside the existing built-in options. Find out more on the NVIDIA blog.

| Posted Tue Sep 21, 2021

Software - 3DS Max

UV Ultimate Trim script for 3ds Max

InuTools has announced a new free script called UV Ultimate Trim that facilitates the use of trim sheets in 3ds Max. (more...)

Comments (2) | Posted Tue Sep 21, 2021

Houdini

Matt Puchala has announced the release of Axiom 2 for Houdini, the latest version of his volumetric fluid simulator that can run true sparse simulations fully on a GPU for the fast creation of fire, smoke, and other pyrotechnic effects. (more...)

| Posted Mon Sep 20, 2021

Software

Clarifying Houdini and 3ds Max indie pricing

Eloi Andaluz Fullà has published a new video that attempts to clarify the indie licensing schemes for 3ds Max, Maya, and Houdini. Watch it on YouTube.

Comments (2) | Posted Mon Sep 20, 2021

Houdini

HdRstr – real time lighting with thousands of lights in Houdini

Stefan Krake has released hdRstr, a Houdini tool that allows for direct lighting from tens of thousands of lights with real-time frame rates directly inside the viewport. Learn more on Stefan Krake's website.

| Posted Fri Sep 17, 2021

Tutorials

Using the Ecotype world building tool created using GraphN

A new tutorial has been release that explains how to use Ecotope, the first in a series of world-building tools that have been created with visual coding tool GraphN. The Ecotope tool is free to use and compatible with Maya and Unreal Engine. Watch it on YouTube.

Comments (2) | Posted Fri Sep 17, 2021

Films

Dead End short from New3dge

Paris-based school New3dge has been raising the quality of its student films for a while, Dead End is one of the best to come from the school. The SciFi short was created by David Bruyère, Leia Peron, Romain Euvrard, Robin André-Bourguignon, Antoine Perrier-Cornet and Maxime Recuyer. Software used includes 3DS Max, ZBrush, Substance Painter, V-Ray, Marvelous Designer, Maya, DaVinci Resolve and After Affects. Watch Dead End short film on Filmnosis.

| Posted Fri Sep 17, 2021