Adobe has announced that its software services will no longer be available in Venezuela in compliance with US sanctions implemented by President Donald Trump in August. Existing users have until 28 October to download any cloud-based content, after which time accounts will be deactivated. According to Adobe's help pages, there is no date at present for reinstating the services but they "will continue to monitor developments closely and will make every effort to restore services to Venezuela as soon as it is legally permissible to do so". Due to its subscription model, this means users will not be able to continue to use the software, nor can they buy a standalone version. Behance is not affected by this sanction. Read more on Adobe's help site.

Berlin-based XOIO has released a two-part tutorial explaining how to cut roads into a terrain. In the first video they create a continuous terrain that features realistic roads cut through steep terrains that maintains edge loops to make the roads easier to texture. In the second video they go over texturing the terrain, animating objects, placing fencing more. Watch the tutorial on YouTube: Part 1 | Part 2.

NVIDIA has announced it has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron level sponsor. The 120,000 € per year donation is said to keep two full-time developers working on Blenders core and ensure NVIDIAs GPU technology is supported. The only other company funding at Patron level is Epic Games who recently awarded the Blender Foundation a $1.2 million mega grant. To see the list of sponsors, visit Blender.org

Catch up with last week's CG news in a vlog by Juan Gea from Bone Studio. Watch now on YouTube (English | Spanish).

Esri has released the latest version of its parametric tool CityEngine. (more...)

Rodeo FX has released 3 new breakdowns of their work for Stranger Things Series 3, including  (more...)

Adobe has released a sneak peek video for the next release of its 2D Character Animator tool. The video shows the ability to add keyframes and manipulate their tangents with a graph, similar to the timeline tools found in After Effects. Watch the video on YouTube. 

Autodesk Technical Specialist Steven Roselle has published a webinar recording in which he demonstrates recent performance improvements to Maya's file management and interactivity. Watch it on Youtube.