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"‘Migrants’ was a graduation project for five students from PÔLE 3D in France. It encapsulated three subjects close to my heart: our problems with climate change, immigration, and the treatment of refugees."

New GPUOpen MaterialX library provides free PBR materials in the new open format for look dev data.

Now officially shipping: new plugin lets users import, compose and render USD scenes in Blender.

GPU renderers for visualisation and portfolio work get versatile object scattering and instancing system.

Natural media painting app gets 'world first' colour-mixing system to mimic how real pigments blend.

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create game cinematic's using UE4's Sequencer.

Get 22 models of black alders in .uasset format with LODs and 8k textures from the new Megascans Trees range.

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.