Outpost VFX | Showreel 2022
The VFX house Outpost VFX shines with moving image bombast for series and film highlights - including: Wheel of Time, Star Trek: Picard and The Orville.
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Three days of Devcom-Online? Also relevant for VFXers!
Nvidia? Unreal Engine? CD Project? Yes, they're all at the Devcom Summit - from today until Wednesday. A free online event.
Fire & Flame for Fusion?
Danasa Arsad, VFX artist and alumnus of the SAE Institute, explains how a real-looking fire can be staged - with fusion in DaVinci Resolve.
Rodeo FX blows up the Madrigal Tower!
A colossal start to the series for the Master Chief from the Halo series: VFX Supervisor Patrick David and VFX Producer Nancy Heller make the Madrigal Tower explode.
The Night of the Living Dead | Raffle
The milestone of the zombie film genre by cult director George A. Romero is being released as a lavish Collectors Edition. We're giving away a copy of the collector's item!
New version of the retopology software CozyBlanket!
CozyBlanket 2.0 has three levels: Retopology, Unwrapping and Baking. An app for the iPad.
What can iClone 8 from Reallusion do that the competition can’t?
Plask, Radical, DeepMotion, Pixcap and iClone 8 - these are the names of the mocap tools! Blender expert Russell Midfield pits the motion capture programmes against each other.
Get started with Phoenix thanks to this two-part guide!
Cory Holm, Team Lead at Chaos Group, publishes a detailed guide suitable for newcomers. How the Phoenix fluid simulation software works ..
USD for 3ds Max 0.3 released!
Autodesk is expanding its USD implementation for 3ds Max with new core functions. Will the Universal Scene Description become more user-friendly thanks to this public beta?
Vesper Chronicles | VFX Breakdown
Visual effects house MPC provides the visual power for the dystopian science fiction film in which bio-hacking ensures survival.
Draw the sky with Terragen Sky!
Planetside Software expands its software portfolio with Terragen Sky - allowing 360-degree HDRIs of the horizon to be pulled up. The sky is the limit?
Maxon presents two beta builds of ZBrush 2023!
At the ZBrush Summit 2022, Senior Creative Director Louie Tucci and ZBrush Trainer Ian Robinson demonstrated the features that are currently being developed, including: revised ZRemesher retopology, Redshift integration and more.
How did the Moon of Shame scene from Thor come about?
Method Studios do it in monochrome: visual effects on the moon - and with ridiculously low gravity. How did visual effects supervisor Pete Dionne & team manage that?
Adam Savage visits the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701!
In this half-hour video, Mythbuster slash full-time geek Adam Savage and astronaut Cady Coleman meet the original Starship Enterprise.
CityEngine User Meeting 2022 as video stream!
What took place at this year's CEUM is now available as a five-part video series with a running time of around 100 minutes.
With the Omniverse Create 2022.3 Beta comes PhysX 5.1!
Nvidia releases the latest version of the real-time physics system - one of the technological pillars of Nvidia's Omniverse creative platform.
The material authoring tool Mixer 2022.1 is released!
Support for emissive and opacity maps, transparent and double-sided rendered materials - and other innovations are now available. But how will Mixer's development continue?
Gaea 1.3.2 simplifies terrain generation?
Software developer Quad Spinner releases a new version of the terrain tool - and with it new functions such as rock noise, object-to-heightfield and supersampling screenshots.
New version of the 3D clothing software Marvelous Designer released!
The company CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 12 - and expands the scope with many convenient functions. A release note.
This script simplifies hard-surface modelling in Maya!
ModIt 3.0, a script for Autodesk Maya, automates many tasks. Cost: 40 US dollars and upwards.
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 5.1!
Version 5.1 improves many of the features that Unreal Engine 5.0 established - including: Nanites and Lumen. A dedicated in-camera VFX editor appeals to visual effects artists.
Simulationssoftware finalFluid als Full Release!
Cebas Visual Technology lifts its sim tool finalFluid out of the beta phase. Fire, smoke, dust & co. are created in 3ds Max!
Switch several AI models in parallel: with this moving image software!
Video AI 3.0 from software developer Topaz Labs can now accommodate several AI models in one task at the same time! Plus AI-supported video stabilisation - and other improvements. A product announcement.
Valley of the Dead | VFX Breakdown
With this zombie film, VFX studio El Ranchito shows what the scary slash action location of Spain is capable of. Brains à la carte for the undead!