Cebas Visual Technology has released an open beta of finalRender for Maya. Find our more and download the free version for Cebas' website and see a getting started video on Vimeo.

Maxon has announced the latest release of its benchmarking tool Cinebench. R20 updates the render core to match the latest Cinema4D release and uses a more sophisticated scene to keep pace with modern CPUs. Find out more and download the update for free from the Maxon website.

Pixologic has announced the release of ZBrush 2019, a significant update that adds several new features including: (more...)

Solid Angle has released a new update to MaxToArnold that adds some handy features for creating complex scenes. This update adds a new PFlow operator called Arnold Shape that replaces each particle with an instance of a chosen object at render time. As well as geometry, this also makes it possible to instance Arnold Specific primitive like Procedural, Alembic and even lights. This update also adds the ability to export particle systems as native Arnold points primitives. Find out more in the release notes.

Samuel Enslin has posted a trailer for his personal project The Journey of the Water Bear, a CG animated short film that follows the adventures of a microscopic tardigrade.  The trailer is released as a teaser with the intention of launching a crowdfunding campaign for full production. Watch it on YouTube and read more about the project on the film's website.

An interview has been posted with ILM's Chief Creative Officer John Knoll, recorded at the Paris Digital Images Summit.  John Knoll has worked on some of the best known films and franchises including Star Wars, Willow, Abyss, Star Trek, Mission Impossible, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ready Player One, and many many more. He is also known as the original developer of Photoshop along with his brother Thomas Knoll. Watch the interview on YouTube. 

Jesse Pitela now has 50 detailed tutorials including free project files for Phoenix FD and 3DS Max. Get them on Gumroad. 

We're pleased to publish our latest article in which F10 Studio's Nick Homer asks the thorny question: “what the hell is it that Architectural Visualisers actually do?”

By definition, rendering is an automated process by a computer program, so this must be an automated art form? Maybe, do we just hit render?

Read the full article here.