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The G Scatter plugin is currently in beta testing, it allows you to draw vegetation such as grass in a Blender scene and comes with its own set of built-in 3D plant models. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Matsmw2NqR4 G Scatter gives users the ability to paint scattered objects and customize the results, using control options for properties such as density, scale and rotation. The plugin itself builds on Blender's new

3DF Zephyr 6.0 has a new Volume of Interest system that helps visualize very large datasets interactively, a new modular save structure, a Python console, and support for the Alembic file format. A number of structural changes have been made to make it easier to manage the huge datasets that photogrammetry can generate, especially when scanning the environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJj-MkZ8nOU The new experimental Volume of Interest (VOI)

U-Render 2021.6 for Cinema 4D has a redesigned depth of field system to support bokeh effects. The update also introduced initial support for integrated rendering in the new DirectX Cinema 4D preview window. U-Render promises the user true real-time rendering. The software is more like a game engine than a conventional standalone renderer with good support for basic Cinema 4D features, including MoGraph. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WWwfCKNIwk U-Render supports

Today we show you how the series Bridgerton was created🤩 Bridgerton is an American streaming television period drama series created by Chris Van Dusen and produced by Shonda Rhimes. It is based on Julia Quinn's novels set in the competitive world of Regency era London's ton during the season, when debutantes are presented at court. It is Rhimes's first scripted Netflix series. Bridgerton premiered on Netflix

CityEngine is a procedural tool for creating 3D city models. The software generates detailed city models based on simple procedural rules, importing data in standard file formats such as OBJ and DXF and exporting to formats such as FBX, Alembic and USD. Although designed for architects and urban planners, the software integrates with the ESRI ArcGIS platform - the software is also designed for entertainment content

It has been reported that Autodesk has renamed Shotgun to ShotGrid. Shotgun is a project management software for animation, VFX and gamedev studios, combining planning, tracking and review tools on one platform. Autodesk has also dropped the old "Awesome" and "Super Awesome" subscriptions in favor of a single $40/month subscription and moved Shotgun to standard product licensing and support systems. The company acquired Shotgun in 2014

Multiverse | USD 6.7 received support for blend shapes in USD format, which in turn allows you to write assemblies that are used by the Maya Blend Shape deformer as blend shapes in USD, with support for multiple targeting, intermediate elements and skeleton animations. The update also expanded support for working with USD (Universal Scene Description), a 3D scene description file format developed by Pixar. There

Blender 2.93 LTS has an updated workspace and table editor for geometric nodes. More than 20 new nodes have been added, including nodes for creating 2D and 3D primitives. Mesh parameters such as vertex colour data, some of the UV properties and material assignment can now be accessed. The update also added a default workspace for geometry nodes, including a new spreadsheet editor to display attribute

Although the second season of the animated anthology Love, Death & Robots was noticeably shorter and worse than the first collection, some episodes literally struck with quality photorealistic graphics. And Netflix have decided to talk more about the filming process of the new series in general and the Life Hutch / The Bunker issue in particular. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWB507yaBXI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y105qh6gF3M Interestingly, at this stage of filming, studios still