Vine FX's has released a reel for its work on War of the Worlds. Watch it on Vimeo.

Epic has announced the release of Unreal Engine 4.25 adding initial support for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Also in this release also include improvements to the Unreal Insights standalone profiling application, new features for Niagara VFX and Chaos physics thanks to their development for Fortnite, a brand new media output pipeline for studios that are producing high-quality movies and stills for uses like cinematics, marketing materials, or linear entertainment. (more...)

3DS London is due to host it's 2nd online event this Wednesday featuring a number of well-known names from the CG Industry including presentations by Assembly Studios, Bottleship VFX, and ArteFactoryLAB . (more...)

Chaos Group has released a tutorial that explains how to use the V-Ray shaders in Substance Painter 2020.1 to ensure you get the same results when working between Substance tools and V-Ray in 3ds Max and Maya. Read the tutorial on Chaos Group's blog. 

Epic has released the recording of a live webinar in which they explain how to work collaboratively in Unreal Engine.  Specifically it demonstrates two collaboration workflows: the first focuses on the Multi-User Editor —a tool that enables multiple artists to make changes simultaneously to the same Unreal Engine project; the second demonstrates how to use the Collab Viewer Template to create a runtime experience of design data to conduct collaborative design review sessions. Watch them both on Unreal's blog. 

Chaos Group Czech has released a sneak peek video for a new sky model coming soon to Corona Render. Watch it on YouTube and see a full list of what's expected for Corona Renderer 6 in the online roadmap.

Jérôme Oliveras has released Jop TailorToolkit, a collection of Houdini Digital Assets designed for tailoring animations. Vimeo  (more...)

Chaos Group has announced a public beta of V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max. Many significant new features are added, including some that will be familiar to users of Corona. Perhaps most notably V-Ray now has Lightmix features, allowing the user to adjust the colour and intensity of lighting directly in the framebuffer without any need to re-render. (more...)