3DS Max Plugins
Tyson Ibele has released another sneak peek at tyFlow, this time though it's a more substantial look at the setup used for his recent car crash demo in which we can see some of the tools and interface in action. If you've yet to hear about tyFLow, take a look at our original article outlining some of what we can expect, but in a nutshell, according to Tyson it's a replacement for PFlow currently under development with the aim to “bring Max back to the 21st century and create what PFlow could have been if development didn’t stop 10 years ago”. (more...)
Unreal
Epic Games has released a webinar recording in which they introduce Unreal Studio’s look-development tools and explain how they can be used to light, texture, and render an automotive asset in combination with Substance, and X-Rite. Scene files are provided should you want to follow along. Watch the tutorial on Epic's blog.
After Effects Plugins
RE:Vision Effects has announced RE:Grade a new plugin for After Effects and Premiere Pro that adds tools to "manipulate contrast, saturation, and exposure to create super sharp imagery even from video that might be considered unusable". RE:Grade costs $99.95 per license that works with both Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro. Find out more on RE:Vision Effect's website.
Jobs
Here are the latest entries posted on CGPress' free jobs board. As a service to our readers, our jobs board is free. We will also periodically summarise the latest additions and share them on social media and in the main news feed. (more...)
Breakdowns
Pixomondo has released a new reel for its VFX work on the film Goosebumps 2. Watch it on YouTube.
Renderers
KeyShot 8.2 has been released adding the ability to pause offline renders, Interior mode speed and performance improvements, vertical orientation for Presentation Mode, the ability to use the shift-key with drag-and-drop to add sub-materials, the addition of network Rendering for Linux, support for Alembic Vertex Color/Deformable Curves, Autodesk Revit 2019 Import and updated integrations for Solidworks, PTC Creo, Fusion 360 and Cinema 4D. Find out more on the Keyshot blog.
Renderers
Vlado has posted a short video preview of V-Ray Next Update 2 to his YouTube channel. The video shows improvements for scenes with many lights sources, up to thousands. According to the description, Update 2 will feature up to 2x faster light cache for scenes with many lights, an improved algorithm for discovering important light sources to reduce flickering when using adaptive lights, and faster BF+BF rendering when adaptive lights are not available. Watch the clip on YouTube.
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