Renderers
V-Ray for Houdini beta released
Chaos Group has released a beta of V-Ray for Houdini. Features available in this first beta include: (more...)
Renderers
Chaos Group has released a beta of V-Ray for Houdini. Features available in this first beta include: (more...)
Making Of
Pixar Graphics has uploaded an impressive video showcasing the hair workflows developed for Incredibles 2. The video is intended to accompany a talk by Andrew Butts and Ben Porter at SIGGRAPH 2018. Watch it on Vimeo.
Resources
The stock footage website dedicated to VFX artists has released its first collection of over 100 weather effects including falling snow, windy snow, and cold breath. The collections were shot in 6K at 60fps on the RED Weapon Helium 8K Camera. Find out more on the ActionVFX website.
Also of note, the company has been releasing a regular series of compositing tutorials. You can see them all here.
Software - 3DS Max
Grant Warwick has released a new commercial script aimed at helping assembly artists to preview their scenes in the viewport by temporarily swapping out high-resolution assets for optimised textured proxies. (more...)
Maya
Ziva Dynamics has announced the latest release of Ziva VFX, its Maya plug-in with an offline FEM anatomy simulator for the physical simulation of anatomical elements like muscles and skin. New features in Version 1.4 includes the ability to use external forces to affect the simulation. For example, it is possible to simulate the way that wind or rain interacts with a characters skin and tissue. (more...)
Books
Allan McKay has released a new ebook with tips and advice for creating demo reels. Find out more on his website (an email address is required)
Tutorials - 3DS Max
iToo Software has released a new tutorial for RailClone based on a scene created by archviz artist Bertrand Benoit. (more...)
Software
Toolchefs has released a sneak peek video for version 2 of its crowd simulation software Atoms Crowd. (more...)
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