Chaos has published a blog plot explaining what USD is, how it works, and how it can be used in V-Ray 5. Read in on the Chaos blog. 

Epic Games is running a month-long Unreal Engine training bootcamp aimed the animation or 3D CGI industry in Europe. (more...)

Jacopo Colò has released Penzil, a free 3D sketching app that works in the browser but is capable of exporting to Blender. It can be used on desktop, but it has been particularly designed with the intention of using it on touch devices like tablets. See a short demo on YouTube and try it for yourself at www.penzil.app.

KM-3D has updated its Smooth Bridge modifier for 3ds Max. The handy plugin is able to smoothly bridge two open edge loops, even with unequal edge counts. (more...)

GitHub and OpenAI has announced Copilot, an AI pair programmer that helps developers to write code faster and with less work by suggesting autocompletion based on context drawn from comments and code. (more...)

Pixar has released a completely rewritten version RenderMan for Blender that takes advantage of the features in the latest version of its production-proven renderer. Find out more in the RenderMan documentation or watch a video overview by askNK.

Autodesk has published the recording of a recent webinar with some of the 3ds Max development team to explain some of the recent improvements to the modelling tools and the work on the recent USD updates. There's also a section with Thomas Berg who explains some of his work for Olav, a Norwegian Viking documentary.  Watch it on YouTube.