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Parametric modelling plugin gets new banking controls for splines; can now distribute lights and VDBs.

Compositing software gets Universal Text Engine for titling and motion graphics. New Extended Viewport for 3D work now in beta.

Update: free app can now create 3D scans of objects in Cinema 4D, as well as capturing mocap data.

Free tool for streaming animation between Maya and UE4 now supports facial blendshape data.

Lighting and look dev software gets new Nuke Bridge for live linking to Nuke comps, updates to the Hydra Viewer and Foresight+ rendering.

COO and co-founder of DI4D, Douglas Green, discusses performance capture and digi doubles in the making of video games.

VFX image viewer and playback system gets support for new open standard OpenTimelineIO. Sales of perpetual licences discontinued.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial shows how to go from empty scene to complete destruction simulation.

New Alembic procedural speeds up viewport rendering of animation caches by up to 12x in Blender 3.0.

Updated: cut-down edition of popular auto-rigging system ACS2 now also works with Modo Indie.

Check out the new features in the popular plugin for generating 3D heads from source photographs.

Update to the Houdini edition of the renderer extends V-Ray for Solaris, improves the hair material.

For a year that’s gone by in a flash, we’ve managed to cram in an enormous amount of work, haven’t we?

Together, with Edelman and UNFPA, the United Nations agency dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights and ending gender-based violence, we just launched bodyright, a new copyright symbol for the human body.

Digital nature tools get new Omniverse connector, support for Redshift and RenderMan materials.