State of Art Academy has released a new tutorial that explores how to render VDB clouds using Corona Renderer. Read it on the SOA blog. 

Netflix has posted a featurette about the VFX on Army of the Dead, including an interesting section about how the team scanned huge areas of Las Vegas to create the apocalyptic sets required by the show.  Watch it on YouTube.

Esri has announced a new version of ArcGIS CityEngine, its procedural city creation tool. (more...)

Luxion has announced the release of Keyshot 10.2. New features include improved caustics, a revamped materials library, a new touch-friendly configurator style, and a new mesh simplification tool, along with new import options and many other improvements across materials, user interface, and workflow capabilities. For more details, visit the Keyshot blog. 

Kinetix has announced a beta of its cloud service that generates a 3D animated character from a single video source. Find out more on Kintex.tech.

A recording of June's 3ds Meetup TV instalment is now available to watch on YouTube. (more...)

Chaos Group has published a webinar recording that explores the latest features of Chaos Vantage using a real-world example by Urban VFX who use Chaos Vantage to collaborate on a huge 30gb file of Wembley Park's 84-acre site. Watch it on YouTube. 

Graphics Programmer Code Corsair has published an interesting post in which he attempts to understand how UE5's Nanite technology works using renderdoc capture to deconstruct a frame from the recently released demo. Read it on The Code Corsair.