Lightwave 3D
Lightwave 2019.1 released
Newtek has announced the release of Lightwave 2019.1. (more...)
Lightwave 3D
Newtek has announced the release of Lightwave 2019.1. (more...)
Nuke
Foundry has teased a new tool called Inpaint, due for inclusion in Nuke 12.0. According to the company, it allows the user to create contextual paint strokes, similar to Photoshop’s Healing Brush tool. Inpaint is GPU accelerated, includes "Stretch knobs" to control the direction of the stroke for finer adjustments, has the ability to adjust the level of detail, as well as the ability to pull detail from another part of the source image or a separate image. Read more in the Nuke newsletter.
Blender
The Blender Foundation has announced it has been awarded a $1.2 million MegaGrant from Epic Games to "further the success of Blender". (more...)
Breakdowns
Australia-based Rising Sun Pictures has released a breakdown reel for their work on Dumbo. Watch it on YouTube.
Breakdowns
DNEG has released a VFX breakdown for Catch 22, Hulu's adaptation of Joseph Heller's modern classic of the same name. The reel includes several shot breakdowns of aerial shots including CG planes, environments, explosions, flak, smoke, engine fire, and digital clouds. Watch it on YouTube.
3DS Max Plugins
Kinematic Lab has released Chaos, a new parametric Spline object for 3DS Max that creates spline using what are called “strange attractor” equations. 29 different equations are available, each one with their own variables. Find out more on the Kinematic Lab website.
Blender
The Blender Foundation has released a release candidate for Blender 2.80, meaning the final release is imminent. Assuming all things go well, this should be the final shipping version, or certainly close to it, You can download it from here and see the most recent Blender Today live stream on YouTube.
Software
Epic Games has announced a preview release of Unreal Engine 4.23 is now available. Preview 1 includes several new features including, the Chaos physics and destruction system, the Skin Weight Profile system, a new Unreal Insights Tool and several improvements to the virtual production tools. This release also includes several major changes to the Niagara workflow, editor updates, HoloLens 2 support, and more. To see what's included, visit the Unreal Forum.
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