The Blender team has released a new video to share what's new in Blender 2.92 in less than 5 minutes. Watch it on YouTube. 

It is with sadness that we report that Cinefex magazine, that great stalwart of the VFX industry, is closing its doors after 41 years of publishing. The announcement cites the Corona virus as a major contributing factor for the closure, depriving the magazine of subject matter, retail outlets, and advertisers. Issue 172 will be the last, though several back issues are still available. 

NVIDIA has announced that an Omnivers Connector plugin is now available for 3ds Max. Get it from NVIDIA's website. 

CGarchitect has published the results of a survey that asked the industry to evaluate the impact of the COVID pandemic on business. Read it on CGarchitect. 

Chaos Group has updated its online documentation to reveal the features of V-Ray 5 update 1. Headline features include: (more...)

Chaos Group Czech has announced the launch of Corona Academy online. Formally the only way to get training directly from the Corona team was to attend in person. According to the announcement, this arrangement was designed to create a network of certified instructors that could run their own courses and train other teachers and students but was prohibitively expensive for end-users. With over 100 instructors now certified, the announcement claims the course had served its purpose and that COVID pandemic had only accelerated plans that were already in place. (more...)