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.

Weta Digital has released a new demo reel showcasing their 25-year history from recent projects like Avengers: Endgame, Alita: Battle Angel, Game of Thrones and The Umbrella Academy through to older successes like Lord of the Rings and Avatar. Watch it on YouTube. 

During a workshop at State Of Art Academy, AXYZ Design previewed their upcoming line of 4D photoscanned character assets that not only capture the textured model, but also realistic animations including clothing and facial expressions. No information is available yet on the AXYZ Website, but you can see some of the characters in a trailer for the workshop on Vimeo. 

Allegorithmic has released a new signature collection of Substances by Don Arceta themed around the ocean floor, paradise islands and coral reefs. Find out more on the Substance blog. 

Version 2.2 of LuxCoreRenderer has been released. The new version adds PhotonGI indirect light cache, integrated Intel Open Image Denoiser v1.0, new improved Random/Sobol sampler adaptive code, front and back material transparency (aka light invisible object), New textures (Power, Less Than, Greater Than, Dot Product, Position, Shading Normal, etc.), Shadow catcher is now easier to use with multiple light sources of any type, support for Disney BRDF materials, Hybrid Back/Forward path-tracing support and much more (more...)

A new teaser for real-time archviz renderer Lumion 10 has been released. The video is light on details about what is actually new, but it's possible that support for RTX raytracing has been included along with new vegetation models. We'll publish more concrete details once they become available, meanwhile you can see the teaser on YouTube.