Photoshop Training Channel's Jesus Ramirez has published a new 50 minute tutorial in which he explains the new features found in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019. Watch it on YouTube. 

Sini Software has released a new beta plugin for 3DS Max that checks and prepares models before export to Unreal Engine. Preflight is aimed at archviz artists who are exporting directly to Unreal or using Epic's own Unreal Studio Datasmith tool to convert scenes. The tool is part of SiNi's Ignite toolset, an expanding suite of utilities that costs £12.50 a month, or as part of their All Access suite that includes SiClone, ProxSi, Scatter, and DiSperse for £15 a month. Find out more on the SiNi Software website.

Parallaxter has announced the public launch of Presenz, a virtual reality tool that can be used to create pre-rendered, still or animated volumetric VR. This technology will allow artists to render spaces with the illusion of free movement and parallax, without the need for a game engine. (more...)

iToo Software has released a detailed tutorial explaining how to create rugs and carpets using Forest Pack and RailClone for interior visualisation. Text and video versions of the tutorial are available on the iToo Software website. 

Autodesk's Zap Andersson has released the second part of his ongoing tutorial series about writing shaders using OSL. Watch it on YouTube. 

In 2014 Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys, and Pat Hanrahan won an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement for the first and second editions of their book Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation. (more...)

Triple Squid Software has announced a new beta for version 4 of MoI. The landmark feature included in this release is a new polygonal Sub-D surface to NURBS conversion tool that can create NURBs objects from .obj files containing poly objects.  The beta is available for download now for version 3 users via the Moi3D website.

Cebas has announced the latest version of Thinking Particles is now available. Drop 7 include several new features including an enhanced fluid solver with improvements to stability, predictability and speed. (more...)