ArmorPaint has announced that its open-source PBR texture painting tool is the recipient of a $25,000 Epic Megagrant. Find out more about ArmorPaint and download from its website. 

Unity Technologies has announced new Student plans (more...)

Junichiro Horikawa has published an algorithmic design workbook for Houdini with 21 exercises each of which includes two sample answers. According to the author it is aimed at beginner to intermediate users. The e-book costs $15 and is available in English and Japanese.  Find out more on Gumroad.

Eloi Andaluz Fullà has released a roundup of 3 techniques to animate trees in 3DS Max when you don't have access to a procedural modeller like Speedtree or GrowFX. Watch it on YouTube. 

iCube has announced the release of  MultiScatter 1.524 (more...)

Autodesk's has announced the end of subscriptions with multi-user access and maintenance plans from May 7 2021 from which date they can no longer be renewed. Replacing these plans are new rental plans that do away with serial numbers and are instead based named individuals.  (more...)

The Blender-OSM base version is a free add-on that allows the user to download and import OpenStreetMap and terrain data for Blender including buildings with height and number of floors to create the final scene. (more...)

ILM has released an interesting behind the scenes video showing an overview of the virtual production technology used on The Mandalorian, Season One. (more...)