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The free Particle Illusion 2021 from Boris FX is part of the Continuum visual effects plugin suite. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Ygfx84VBA[/embed] The standalone version can be used with any compositing application, including After Effects, Fusion, and Nuke. An important nuance is the lack of Mocha planar tracking, but otherwise it's a pretty full-featured product. In the Particle Illusion 2021 update, like the commercial version that was updated last year,

Serif has released Affinity Photo 1.9 and Affinity Designer 1.9. Users of Affinity Photo have the ability to apply non-destructive liquefaction adjustments as masked layers, and to link multiple layers and edit them simultaneously. Affinity Designer users get a new Contour tool and new convenient workflow changes for object selection, including the ability to select all objects in a document that advise a certain attribute value.

Originally released at the end of May 2020, D5 Render, a new rendering program, has been updated to version 1.8. The engine combines ray tracing and rasterization techniques. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWs2V3I3EYw&feature=emb_logo[/embed] Update 1.8 adds quite a few new features, including a handy option that allows the software to automatically set the angle of the sunlight based on the position of the brightest spot on the HDRI scene map.

Bondware presented Poser 12 - a major update of the software designed for the visualization, animation and rendering of three-dimensional figures of people and animals. The SuperFly physics rendering engine was updated with support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia GPUs. Rendering noise reduction with Open Image Denoise on Intel processors has also been added. Users got a new post effects palette, updated material management, and

Google presented open source code for a 3D virtual reality drawing tool, Tilt Brush, under the Apache 2.0 license. At the moment, the project is no longer in active development. Google is discontinuing its support, but compiled commercial builds will "always be available" in digital stores. [embed]https://youtu.be/TckqNdrdbgk[/embed] Recall that Tilt Brush, released in 2016, is a 3D drawing app that literally allows users with compatible VR

Deep FX World has introduced Deep FX Studio 0.5. The standalone procedural animation and multiphysics modeling software Deep FX Studio has been updated to version 0.5. The update brings with it a major overhaul of the software, which the developer describes as a "completely new application. Not only the user interface and the main workflows of the application have been updated. The release also adds a

Among the free 3D human scans from Renderbot are male and female figures from child to middle-aged and various clothing styles. Each of the scans is provided in common 3D file formats. Typically these are OBJ, FBX, STL. WRL and as a 3ds Max scene file, the scans come with diffuse maps and normal maps, with resolutions of 4096x4096 pixels or 8192x8192 pixels. The number of

Agisoft has released Metashape 1.7, an update to its photogrammetry software. Users of the professional version, designed for aerial photography, get integration with terrestrial laser scanning data, automatic detection of power lines and a new system for automatic masking of blurred areas of the original images. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9fJL67YWIw&feature=emb_logo[/embed] Agisoft's software was originally known as PhotoScan and quickly became popular among game and visual effects artists for creating

More than 70 HDRI photos, with a resolution of 16K, were freely available on his own site by game artist Elvis Posa. The files are available for download as 32-bit .hdr files with resolutions of 4096x2048 pixels and 16384x8192 pixels.  They are also licensed for use in commercial projects.   The images presented include both the exterior environment and the interior space of the rooms, which