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Software
Google has announced Google Earth Studio, a new browser-based animation tool that allows the user to keyframe the position and field of view of cameras, the sun's position and more in Google Earth. Camera data can then be exported for post-work in After Effects. A Google account and Chrome is required to sign up for the beta. Find out more on the new Studio website and watch sample output on YouTube.
Blender
Grant Wilk from Remington Graphics has released D-NOISE, an implementation of NVIDIA's the Optix denoiser for Blender. It isn't limited to Cycles, the denoise operation can run on any image loaded into the UV/Image Editor including texture bakes and even photos. At present it is compatible with Blender 2.79 or 2.79.6 on Windows but support for 2.8 and other platforms is expected soon. Find out more on Remington's website.
Blender
Chocofur has released a collection of tutorials to help new users get up and running with Blender 2.8. See the playlist on YouTube.
Resources
Simon Thommes has released B'rn, a free animatable volumetric fire shader for Blender that allows the user to create fully volumetric fire with several options without having to do any kind of simulation. Find out more and download from Gumroad.
Resources
Quixel has announced several changes to its Megascans subscription plans that give users access to a library of photoscanned assets and material creation software. (more...)
Software
Though it's been around a while, we hadn't covered Prague-based Ivan Kutskir's Photopea, a free online browser-based image editor with a more than passing resemblance to Photoshop. It supports several file formats including PSD, JPG, PNG, SVG, XCF, Sketch, XD and CDR formats. You can try it on photopea.com and find out more about the application on product's blog.
Software - 3DS Max
Spline Dynamics has released Spline Refiner, a plugin for 3DS Max that subdivides splines without changing their fundamental shape. (more...)
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