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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

Dimension 5's D5 Render 1.9 features a new physical sky system, Geo & Sky, allowing scenes to be automatically lit according to a given latitude and time of day in the real world. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=KnHofPuKPgk&feature=emb_logo[/embed] The update also includes new double-sided foliage material and the ability to customise the colours of the three-dimensional plants. More than 412 plants have now been added to the accompanying resource libraries.

The Last of Us. Part II is a third-person action-adventure computer game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2020 for the PlayStation 4. It is a direct storyline sequel to The Last of Us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ2jld2ynms  

Chaos, the company formerly known as Chaos Group, has released V-Ray glTF, a free collection of Python scripts for rendering models in glTF format using its V-Ray rendering module. glTF is a lightweight file format for 3D resources in real-time applications and is now supported in DCC software, including Blender and Nvidia's Omniverse. While there are a number of online glTF viewers available - the new

"The Lion King" is a 2019 American musical computer animated film directed by Jon Favreau and written by Jeff Nathanson. The film is shot entirely with photorealistic computer animation. A remake of the 1994 cartoon film of the same name. The film was released on 18 July 2019, when the original cartoon turned 25 years old. The film earned over $1.6 billion at the global box

The software, formerly known as Project Lavina, now known as Chaos Vantage, uses the RT cores in current generation Nvidia RTX graphics cards to create an interactive image of an environment with full ray tracing in real time. Vantage 1.3 gained support for VRay2SidedMtl, a two-way V-Ray material and animated camera parameters from an imported .vrscene file. Also, Vantage now includes the Nvidia GPU-based OptiX noise

ZBRushCoreMini 2021 is a free, stripped-down version of ZBrush, providing "artists of all ages" with an introduction to the popular digital sulpting software. The update adds support for the ZBrush Vector Displacement Mesh (VDM) system, allowing complex 3D elements, including entire body parts, to be added to a model in a few clicks. Other changes include a new real-time occlusion system, designed to bring out finer