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  Star Trek: Discovery is the sixth science fiction television series in the Star Trek universe, premiering on 24 September 2017. Set in the year 2255, 10 years before the events of the Original Series, the crew of the USS Discovery NCC-1031 embark on a journey to explore deep space, discovering new worlds and civilisations.  The first series of CBS's Star Trek franchise. In the US,

Pulldownit 5.0 has got new visual workflows for controlling where the mesh fractures and also new parameters for keeping the fragments formed by cracks on the surface within the boundaries, so that multiple delaminations from the surface can be controlled. The performance of the plug-in has been improved: the crack solver is now "at least twice as fast" and fracture operations create lighter meshes for modelling.

400 HDRI environment and sky maps by Grzegorz Wronkowski are presented in 2048x1024 resolution. These images are presented in EXR format, most of them are exterior, there are both rural and urban environments in a wide range of lighting conditions. In addition to the free 2k versions, commercial versions of the images are available in high resolution, with a width resolution typically up to 20,000 pixels,

Zoo Tools Pro 2.5 is designed to simplify everyday modelling, texturing, lighting and animation tasks. The animation toolset has been updated in the release, adding new tools for baking, timing changes and animation randomisation. Developed by former Weta Digital and Framestore animator Andrew Silke, formerly called C3dC, Zoo Tools Pro 2 is a modular Python-based Maya tool structure. The framework includes over 40 tools, from workflow

Far Cry 6 is an upcoming first-person shooter game developed by Ubisoft Toronto and published by Ubisoft. It is the sixth main installment of the Far Cry series for Amazon Luna, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Stadia. The game is set on Yara, a fictional Caribbean island ruled as a dictatorship by “El Presidente” Antón Castillo (portrayed by Giancarlo

RailClone 4.3 is the new version of iToo Software's parametric modeling plugin in 3ds Max. The update improves the performance of complex models - RailClone objects now estimate "up to 500%" faster and a "Deformation" tab has also been added, to the "Transform" operator, to override deformation settings for multiple segments. V-Ray users have received support for the new VRayMultiSubTex and VRayUVWRandomiser cards in V-Ray 5,

News of the World is a western by Paul Greengrass, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Canadian-American author Paulette Giles. The main roles are played by Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel. Roni Rodrigues, the Overall VFX Supervisor on News of the World, is quick to extol the virtues of working with historical reference to rebuilding the Old West with visual effects. According

Silhouette 2021 is now available as a plug-in for After Effects, Premiere Pro and OFX-compatible compositing applications such as Nuke, replacing the stripped-down Silhouette Paint plug-in. New features include the Lens Correction node, new rotary shape editing tools, the ability to add annotations to projects for snapshot review and node graph improvements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKvVy6NboLg   As noted above, the software is now available as a plug-in with

The Clerisse 5.0 update introduces a new unified architecture for the two versions of the software; we will now be able to use the structural improvements developed for the high-performance version of Clarisse Builder in the Clarisse iFX version. Other important changes include a new USD exporter, new clothing tools, a new Arnold-compatible standard material, and a "revolutionary" new lighting mechanism that allows any scene geometry