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Artlist acquires FXhome
HitFilm and Imerge Pro developer will become the rapidly expanding stock music and video content firm's in-house software division.
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Academy Software Foundation adopts MaterialX
Movie industry standards body to oversee future development of the open format for rich material data.
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NIM Labs launches NIM 5.0
Sizeable update to the CG studio management platform reworks artists' timecards, and introduces a new rules-based payroll system.
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See After Effects’ new multi-frame rendering features
Render previews or final frames faster on multi-core CPUs with the latest beta of the compositing app.
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Adobe backs Blender Development Fund
Software giant's Gold sponsorship provides €30,000/year to help develop the open-source 3D app.
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Epic Games buys Sketchfab
Unreal Engine dev acquires the leading 3D model portfolio service and library of AR-ready content. Fees cut on the Sketchfab store.
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Redshift goes subscription-only
Perpetual licences of the GPU renderer to be dropped after 30 August 2021. Cost of new annual subs 'comparable' to maintenance.
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Get Adobe’s Substance and Mixamo plugins for Blender
New free plugins let users edit SBSAR materials inside Blender, and auto-rig biped characters.
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Unity Technologies acquires SpeedTree developer IDV
Buyout to 'deepen integration' of IDV's tree-authoring technology with Unity, starting in Unity 2021.2.
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Foundry ships Modo 15.1
Modelling and rendering app gets new Curve Booleans system, plus updates to scene testing, the mPath renderer, and USD support.
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Adobe releases Fresco 2.7
Digital painting app gets Photoshop-style Adjustment layers, improved layer masking, plus image alignment guides and grids.
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Chaos Czech ships Corona Renderer 7 for 3ds Max
Max edition of the renderer gets new physical material, improved sky model, speed improvements.
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Master character look dev in Maya and Arnold
Discover how to light and shade a photorealistic human character with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.
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The FreeMoCap Project: markerless mocap for $100?
Promising open-source project aims to track bodies, fingers and faces on two consumer webcams.
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Insydium launches Fused
New $1,000 product bundle includes all of Insydium's Cinema 4D plugins and asset packs, plus new modelling add-on MeshTools.
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HieroPlayer is now free to Nuke and NukeX users
Free subscriptions to the VFX shot review tool available to Nuke users with active maintenance contracts.
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Autodesk ships Maya 2022.1
3D animation software gets new global search feature, tools for authoring interactive tutorials, and updates to the deformer system.
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Nekki ships Cascadeur 2021.2
Unusual physics-based animation software gets a new Graph Editor, new tools for tweening character poses, and new spline IK system.
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Epic Games Slovakia releases RealityCapture 1.2
Photogrammetry app gets new orthomosaic toolset, plus options to map contours and cross sections on 3D terrain.
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Eye candy: Epic Games’ new UE4 in-camera VFX demo
Check out this three-minute short with environments rendered in real time inside Unreal Engine 4.27.
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