FXGuide has published an article exploring how VFX Legion recreated well know Washington DC locations for CBS's Madam Secretary. Read it on FXGuide.

As the Blender Code Quest crosses the halfway point, the development team share a video summarising the current status of Blender 2.8. Watch it on YouTube. 

Clo Virtual Fashion has released an update to its cloth modelling and simulation tool Marvelous Designer. (more...)

Brick Visual has released a video on its Vimeo channel that shows a new Scene Manager tool for 3DS Max. Very few details beyond the video are known at this point. From the demonstration, it would appear to be focused on archviz and include features to support multi-camera scenes, animation, look dev, notes, tasks and more. No details have been released yet about pricing and release date. Watch the preview on Vimeo. We'll share more news as it becomes available. 

Norway-based Storm Studios has released a breakdown reel of their work on Black Panther. Watch it on Vimeo.

Quixel has released a new tutorial to help users get up to speed with its revamped Mixer application. Watch it on YouTube

We Suck Less has released Reactor 2.0, a new open source package manager for Fusion and Divinci Resolve. The free application is designed to streamline the installation, distribution and management of 3rd party content for Fusion through the use of packages that are synced with an online Git repository. It allows users to install 3rd part scripts, plugins and other content with just a few clicks, and because it it synced to an online repository, it's easy to keep plugins up to date. (more...)

Madrid-based Next Limit has released RealFlow for Maya, a native integration of the popular fluid simulation software.

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