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Adobe releases Substance Painter 2019.3
Big update to the 3D painting app adds support for Photoshop .abr brushes, automatic UV unwrapping.
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New updates to Substance Designer and Alchemist
Check out the new features in the December 2019 updates to Adobe's material authoring tools.
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Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 5.0 for Cinema 4D
Popular smoke and fire simulation software now available for Cinema 4D as well as 3ds Max and Maya.
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Krita wins Epic MegaGrant
Digital painting tool becomes the latest open-source CG app to be backed by Epic Games, winning $25,000 to improve QA testing.
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Pixologic releases ZBrushCore 2020
Cut-down edition of ZBrush gets long-awaited new features like SubTool folders and Sculptris Pro.
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Bleank ships Black Ink 2020
GPU-accelerated painting app gets interesting new node-based workflow for creating images, plus support for unlimited 64K layers.
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KeenTools releases free beta of FaceBuilder for Blender
New edition of the neat VFX tool creates 3D head models from source photos directly in Blender.
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Radeon ProRender for Blender gets ‘full spectrum rendering’
Updated: Free GPU renderer's new hybrid rasterised/ray traced mode now works on AMD Polaris GPUs on Windows.
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Quixel ships Bridge 2019.5
Use the entire Megascans library for free in Unreal Engine via the newly rewritten, C++ based UE4 plugin for Quixel's asset manager.
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Check out Muhammad Etman’s Maya/Clarisse Bridge Tool 2.0
FX TD's handy app exports Maya models, shaders, lights, cameras - and now animation - to Clarisse.
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Happy holidays to all CG Channel readers!
Updates may be sporadic over the next week, but normal service should resume on 2 January 2020.
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Isotropix releases Clarisse iFX 4.0 SP5
Shot layout and look dev tool gets new firefly filtering system, better handling of Light Path Expressions.
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Aartform ships Curvy3D 4.0
First update to the unusual sketch-based modelling tool in six years adds new mesh deformation and Boolean features, plus SVG import.
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Michael Christophersson ships Ramma 1.25
Neat tool auto-detects bad frames in rendered sequences. Now on Linux as well as Windows, macOS.
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Sneak peek: Octane X
Otoy's new Metal-based version of OctaneRender to run on the Intel chips in MacBook Pros as well as the AMD GPUs in Mac desktops.
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Check out promising open-source 2D animation tool enve
Free app provides an interesting range of features, particularly for vector and motion design work.
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Master new 3D and VR workflows for mech design
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial Designing a Piloted Combat Mech provides over 10 hours of training.
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Check out Point Render 1.1 for Nuke
Updated: Create, shade and render particle effects via higx's versatile BlinkScript-based point renderer.
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Download version 2.0 of Spin VFX’s free Nuke Gizmos
Get the VFX studio's popular - and newly updated - open-source collection of compositing tools.
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Eye candy: Foundry’s 2019 APAC showreel
Watch an eye-catching two-minute round-up of the best animation and VFX from China, Japan and Korea.
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