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Download Kaiserbold’s 10 free photographic cutout trees
Get free cutouts of broadleaved and coniferous trees for use in archviz images. Commercial use.
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Adobe changes licensing for Substance products
Subcriptions include Substance Alchemist 1.0, but perpetual licences cut to Steam editions of Painter and Designer.
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SideFX unveils Houdini 18
Major update to the 3D software to add the Solaris look dev and layout toolset, and update the Vellum, FEM, Pyro and FLIP fluid solvers.
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Adobe ships After Effects 17.0
Compositing software gets more fluid playback of cached previews, faster Content-Aware fill, better EXR import, Cryptomatte support.
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Adobe ships Dimension 3.0
Designer-focused 3D tool gets support for multiple directional lights, improved render preview, early support for GPU rendering.
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Adobe ships Photoshop for iPad 1.0
New app 'reimagines' Photoshop for mobile workflows, but it's still very much a work in progress.
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Adobe ships Photoshop 21.0
Image-editing and painting tool gets neat AI-driven object selection tool; improved Content-Aware Fill, image warping and HDR editing.
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Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2019.1
Next-gen material authoring tool now out of beta. First official release adds new delighter filter.
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Next Limit ships Maxwell 5.0
Physically based renderer gets support for multi-GPU rendering, built-in access to cloud rendering, plus new V-Ray scene importer.
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Foundry ships Mari 4.6
Update extends the 3D texturing app's procedural materials system, adds V-Ray and 3Delight shaders, and streamlines the node graph.
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Pixologic unveils ZBrush 2020
Free update to the sculpting app to add interesting new history-aware brushes, option to paint or sculpt on the UV unwrap of a model.
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Chaos Czech ships Corona Renderer 5 for 3ds Max
Performance-focused update adds new 2.5D displacement system and new hair materials to the renderer.
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Luxion ships KeyShot 9.0
Renderer gets new RealCloth procedural fabric material, support for GPU rendering on Nvidia cards, denoising on both CPU and GPU.
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Real-time ray tracing, Havok physics due in Unity this year
Updated: Havok Physics now out as a preview package. DXR ray tracing also available in preview.
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ftrack acquires Cospective
Production tracking firm buys Academy Award-winning creator of shot review tools. What does the deal do for cineSync and Frankie?
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Foundry closes Athera
All-in-one production platform pitched as a complete visual effects studio in the cloud shuts just 18 months after its commercial launch.
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SideFX unveils Houdini 18
Updated: check out the features announced at the Houdini 18 launch event, including several not shown in the original teaser video.
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Sneak peek: Adobe’s Project Sweet Talk and Go Figure
New AI-based tools automatically animate 2D characters to match source audio or video footage.
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Uppercut releases U-Render 2019.11 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer for Cinema 4D now out of early access - and now supports volumetrics.
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Download 500 free 4K texture sets from Share Textures
Updated: website provides sets of 4,096 x 4,096px textures of real-world materials via a CC0 licence.
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