Weta Digital has release a breakdown reel for its work on Black Widow including the mountain range and gulag environment, as well as the avalanche effects. Watch it on YouTube. 

Jamie Cardoso has published a short tutorial explaining how to use the VrayNormals render element in photoshop to add additional lighting effects to a scene. Watch it on YouTube. 

KeenTools has released a new upgrade with several improvements and three new nodes that bring blendshapes to Nuke. Using these nodes it’s possible to create new geometry out of objects with similar topology and then animate it, without switching to another software. (more...)

Digital Domain has released a VFX breakdown reel for its work on Marvel's Black Widow. Watch it on YouTube. 

Animal Logic has released a free abandoned workshop scene in USD format that aims to replicate real-world production and pipeline concepts for use in education, training, and demonstration by students, studios, and vendors. Find out more on Animal Logic's website. 

Serif has announced the release of Affinity 1.10, including Photo, Designer and Publisher.  (more...)

Ftrack has announced it will soon be releasing cineSync Play, a new desktop application for frame sequence playback that will come to Ftrack Studio in 2021. A beta will start soon, if any user are interested they can register on the Ftrack website. 

Nevercenter has released Silo 2021.2, the latest version of its inexpensive modelling tool. New features include: (more...)