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Chaos Group has posted an interview with Ingenuity Studios' Grant Miller on how they used V-Ray for Houdini to render pile of 9,000 zombies for The Walking Dead. Read it on the Chaos Group blog.

iToo Software has released an in-depth interview with Christian Haas about Manou the Swift. The film is a feature-length animated film for families conceived and created entirely in-house using 3DS Max using LUXX's custom pipeline tools and rendered with V-Ray. You can find out more about this and more on iToo Software's website (Expect content aimed at promoting Forest Pack and RailClone). Also of note, a new trailer has been released for Manou the Swift on YouTube. 

Epic Games has released a new reel showcasing work done by its enterprise clients with Unreal Engine in the automotive, aviation, architecture, big data, consumer electronics, film, live performance industries and more.  Watch it on YouTube.

We're pleased to announce that CGPress now features a free jobs listing service. Anyone can list relevant vacancies on the dedicated jobs page free for 30 days and reach tens of thousands of professionals in the 3D industry. You'll find the new jobs board from the menu at the top of the main page, and a list of the most recent jobs on the right-hand sidebar. 

We're just getting started, but you can visit the new jobs page now, or advertise a vacancy simply by filling out this form (posts are moderated). 

Alexey Vanzhula has released Z, a set of tools that allows the user to model simultaneously in Houdini and ZBrush. Essentially it allows you to open the same geometry in both packages and exporting changes occurs automatically when you switch between the windows.  (more...)

NVIDIA has released a video and blog post based on a scene of a ship flying through asteroids to demo new optimisation techniques in the Turing GPU architecture. (more...)

Eloi Andaluz Fullà has published a video showing how 3DS Max's Nitrous viewport can be tweaked to achieve some of the raster effects seen in Blender 2.8's new EEVEE viewport. The video is careful not to suggest there is parity, but instead demonstrates parameters that are available to improve Max's viewport and discusses the differences between Nitrous and EEVEE. Watch it on YouTube. (more...)