Maxon has announced details of Cinema 4D R20, now with a node-based material editor, Mograph Fields, CAD data import, Volume modelling, improvements to Pro Render and much more.  (more...)

Fianna Wong has posted an informal interview with Igor Zanic, a well known and respected Serbian TA specialising in fluids, particle and dynamic effects. Watch it on YouTube.

Amazon has released Lumberyard Beta 1.15 adding new River and Road components, Cloud Gems for Cloud Canvas, Blend nodes for the Animation Editor, Shader Compiler support for MacOS, support for the latest Audiokinect Wwise SDK and authoring tool, support for Visual Studio 2017 and much more.  (more...)

Mir Vadim has posted a video demonstrating a stress test for an interactive Demolition mode in Rayfire that uses a new object/modifier based dynamic simulation workflow. In this video a single object splits into 37 fragments with a depth level of 3, resulting in 63,700 pieces by the end of the simulation.  Watch it on YouTube.

Lightmap has released HDR Light Studio Carbon Drop 3, a new update to its HDR environment painting tool with an expanded preset system, new preset content, the ability to save presets, a new Octane standalone Connection, and improvement to the Houdini Connection so that it now supports Area lights and the Redshift renderer. Read more about the latest features on Lightmap's website. 

New features in the latest version of the painting and VFX software includes (more...)

Marvel has posted two video interviews with VFX Supervisor Stephane Ceretti in which they discuss scenes from Ant-Man and the Wasp.  (more...)

Cebas has announced a new season of webinars is to start next month and stretch into 2019, all hosted by established FX experts. The first of the new run is with Augusto Lombardi and takes place on 24 August at 12 pm Pacific time.  (more...)