DNEG has released a featurette on creating the VFX for Damien Chazelle's Neil Armstrong biopic First Man. Watch it on Vimeo.

Pascal Ackermann has released a free video tutorial demonstrating his pipeline for Marvelous Designer assets using Z Brush and Substance Designer. You can watch the video on Youtube and purchase the assets shown in the video from Gumroad.

Tyson Ibele has posted a new demo of Tyflow, a replacement for PFlow in 3DS Max currently in development. The latest video shows TyFlow's granular solver with fast OpenCL GPU acceleration that, according to Tyson, can handle a huge number of particles; (more...)

Agisoft has released a new version of Photoscan and renamed the popular photogrammetry application Metashape.  Version 1.5 includes a new mesh generation technique that uses depth maps. According to Agisoft the new algorithm provides more accurate results in less time thanks to GPU acceleration (that's not an option in the older dense cloud technique). To avoid overloading limited GPU memory, the method employs an "out of core" implementation. (more...)

Render Legion has announced the commercial release of Corona Renderer 3 for Cinema 4D. This version features the core features found in its 3DS Max counterpart including Interactive Rendering, LightMix to adjust colour and intensity of light sources during or after rendering, Denoising and more. (more...)

Digital District has released a breakdown video for its environment, weather and animal VFX on Rémi Sans Famille. Watch it on Vimeo.

January 2nd marked the 25th birthday of Blender, which was first conceived by Ton Roosendaal during the Christmas holidays of 1993.   (more...)

ILM has published a short video on how they created Lando's Falcon for Solo: A Star Wars Story. Watch it on YouTube.