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Freelance artist creating interactive 3D and augmented reality content for a more immersive aviation and STEM learning experience. Widen your world 🛩 🌍 famousandfaded.com linktr.ee/famousandfaded

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Beppe OctaneRender Italia @octanerenderitalia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New OctaneRender 2026.4.0.0 for Houdini Production (2026.4.0.0) @OTOY forum: render.otoy.com/forum/viewto...
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OctaneRender 2026.4.0.0 for Houdini Production (2026.4.0.0) - OTOY Forums
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Beppe OctaneRender Italia @octanerenderitalia.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New OctaneRender 2026.3.0.0 for Houdini Production (2026.3.0.0) @OTOY forum: render.otoy.com/forum/viewto...
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The Green Party just came out strongly in favour of creatives in their battle against exploitation by AI companies. They urge the government to commit to not weakening copyright law. 🧵 1/2
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Beppe OctaneRender Italia @octanerenderitalia.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
New OctaneRender 2026.2.0.1 for Houdini Production (2026.2.0.1) @OTOY forum: render.otoy.com/forum/viewto...
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Beppe OctaneRender Italia @octanerenderitalia.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
New OctaneRender 2026.1.0.1 for Houdini Production (2026.1.0.1) @OTOY forum: render.otoy.com/forum/viewto...
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Beppe OctaneRender Italia @octanerenderitalia.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
OTOY reveals new Octane 2027 Roadmap and Beyond @OTOY forum with: - Real-time Neural Viewport rendering - Render to Gaussian Splat - Anime and Sketch Rendering - Generative PBR Materials - AI Light 2.0 for many light sampling - Python API and much more render.otoy.com/forum/viewto...
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Blender @blender.org · 18/11/2025
Blender Foundation and the online developer community proudly present Blender 5.0! ACES, Adaptive Subdivision, HDR, Storyboarding, Geometry Nodes, 588 bugs fixed, and so much more. 📖 Changelog & Download: blender.org/download/rel... 📺 Video Recap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wEq... #b3d
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Blender @blender.org · 13/11/2025
Blender 5.0 has entered Release Candidate stage! 🚀 Please take some time to try it, test your add-ons, files (backup first!), and report any bugs you find. ⬇️ Download: builder.blender.org/download/dai... 📖 What's New: developer.blender.org/docs/release... 🐞 Report: Help→Report a Bug #b3d
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 13/11/2025
It looks like Epic Games Launcher has finally been updated to run native ARM code on macOS. No need for Rosetta anymore 🎉
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Download the Epic Games Launcher - Epic Games Store
Download the Epic Games Launcher for PC, macOS, iPhone, and Android. Streamline your gaming experience with Epic Games today.
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 10/11/2025
PMDG Confirms Involvement with Boeing’s Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer Program
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PMDG Confirms Involvement with Boeing's Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer Program - FSElite
PMDG has supported Boeing in their all-new training program which is utilising MSFS 2020.
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 31/10/2025
With support for macOS and the new M5 chips 🥳
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Beppe OctaneRender Italia @octanerenderitalia.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New OctaneRender 2025.4 for Houdini production (2025.4.0.0) @OTOY forum: render.otoy.com/forum/viewto...
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 13/10/2025
Yay!
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 24/09/2025
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Soars Onto PlayStation 5 Introducing an all-new career system that helps new pilots learn how to fly many different types of aircraft.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Soars Onto PlayStation 5 - Microsoft Flight Simulator
Experience an unprecedented level of aviation realism and authenticity starting December 8th.
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 24/09/2025
MetaHuman 5.7 Preview brings the Creator plugin for Unreal Engine to Linux and macOS
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MetaHuman 5.7 Preview Released!
The Unreal Engine 5.7 Preview is now available and includes updates to MetaHuman Creator and MetaHuman Animator. Download now on the Epic Games Launcher, GitHub, and Linux. MetaHuman 5.7 Preview brin...
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TheArtofSaul @theartofsaul.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Hey guys, now that #Maxon #Redshift 2026 has been released, I decided to make a detailed tutorial covering the awesome new Procedural Clouds Object. These tips apply to all DCC, not just #SideFX #Houdini.☁️ youtu.be/NSxXxqXJQEU
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Redshift 2 Houdini - Tutorial #31 - New Redshift 2026 Procedural Clouds
YouTube video by Saul Espinosa
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 10/09/2025
DaVinci Resolve 20.2 includes support for Apple ProRes RAW.
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Support Center | Blackmagic Design
Blackmagic Design customer support provides the latest software updates, support notes, instruction manuals and contacts for any product related questions.
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 09/09/2025
Ahh, damn the price for GreyscaleGorilla is going to go through the roof. Greyscalegorilla and KitBash3d are merging.
greyscalegorilla.com
From the Founders: A New Chapter for Greyscalegorilla and KitBash3D
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 08/09/2025
Blender gets serious about colour with ACES 2.0 integration Blender 5.0 brings significant upgrades to its colour workflow, featuring support for ACES 2.0 and HDR, for more accurate, vibrant, and lifelike renders.
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Blender gets serious about colour with ACES 2.0 integration
Blender 5.0 brings significant upgrades to its colour workflow, featuring support for ACES 2.0 and HDR, for more accurate, vibrant, and lifelike renders.
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RedShark News @redsharknews.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Premiere on iPhone will launch as a free app, promising an uncluttered experience with with many of the tools from the desktop version present and payments only required for generative credits or cloud storage. buff.ly/A4ufBLr
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Adobe Premiere on iPhone: New iOS Version of Leading NLE and a New Business Model
Premiere on iPhone launches this fall as a free app with desktop-style tools, 4K HDR support, and Adobe Firefly AI. Payments only for generative credits or storage.
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SideFX Houdini @sidefx.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Bring your MetaHumans into Houdini! The latest MetaHuman Character Rig HDA lets you seamlessly import and assemble high-quality MetaHumans with head, body, and textures. You can also now create MetaHuman-compatible hairstyles directly on your character. forums.unrealengine.com/t/me...
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MOPs @motionoperators.com · 26/08/2025
Happy Houdini 21 release day! H21 is compatible with both MOPs and MOPs Plus (for Python 3.11) so you shouldn't have to worry about any upgrades. Have fun!
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 26/08/2025
Cookies and Cream - An Exploration of the MPM Solver Learn how solids and liquids work together, and how to apply surface tension, plasticity and emission expansion, all at once. Every shot will be exported to USD and assembled in Solaris for rendering with Karma XPU. #houdini21
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Cookies and Cream - An Exploration of the MPM Solver | Peter Sanitra |
YouTube video by Houdini
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 26/08/2025
What's new in Houdini 21. - Copernicus gains a sparse GPU Pyro FX solver, reaction diffusion effects and texture baking - Solaris adds Shot Builder, Live Rendering, and Karma support for Hydra 2 - KineFX with a new motion mixer, animation catalog and improved muscle system
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What's New in H21 | SideFX
What's New in H21
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 18/08/2025
Axiom 4 Sneak Peak
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Axiom 4 Sneak Peak
YouTube video by Theory Accelerated
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Kostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Great Siggraph 2025 presentation of Gran Turismo's tonemapping pipeline, which also includes a fantastic introduction to light perception and tonemapping, its origins and how it evolved over the years with display technology, recommended read: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 15/08/2025
A New Standard for Volumetric Data: ZibraVDB Is Now Free for Indies Available for free exclusively for individual creators, hobbyists, and students.
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A New Standard for Volumetric Data: ZibraVDB Is Now Free for Indies
ZibraVDB is now free for all indie developers and VFX enthusiasts using either Unreal Engine or Houdini.
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 13/08/2025
Houdini 21 keynote. H21 will be available in late August.
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H21 Keynote Vancouver
YouTube video by Houdini
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Stephen Hill @selfshadow.com · 10/08/2025
Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...
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SIGGRAPH 2025 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice
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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
nobody: blender devs: STRUCTS AND FIRST-CLASS FUNCTIONS IN YOUR NODES
code.blender.org
Bundles and Closures — Blender Developers Blog
Introducing bundles and closures in Geometry Nodes in Blender 5.0.
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 09/08/2025
Autodesk Aurora just released a beta with support for macOS Metal ray tracing. Metal backend has rough parity with the DirectX and Vulkan backends, including: - Standard BSDF & Reference BSDF - Image-based lighting - Background environment map Wow 🎉
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Release v25.08 Beta · Autodesk/Aurora
This release includes major support for macOS using Metal ray tracing, dependency upgrades, and various bug fixes. See Doc/Build.md for detailed prerequisites and build instructions. Metal Ray Trac...
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 07/08/2025
LiquiGen 1.0 Live Training How to use some of the latest features inside of LiquiGen.
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Elemental Week 2025: Day 3 - LiquiGen 1.0 Live Training
YouTube video by JangaFX VFX Software & Tutorials
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 07/08/2025
DaVinci Resolve 20.1 is out. Improvements for all users to keyframes, text tools, as well as AI Magic Mask 2 support in Fusion.
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It keeps on getting Better! DaVinci Resolve 20.1 - Our favourite NEW FEATURES
YouTube video by Team 2 Films
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 06/08/2025
Announcing OpenPBR Volume Taking Houdini Pyro Shader & Arnold Standard Volume and creating a common model and draft specification for OpenPBR Volume
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Announcing OpenPBR Volume! - ASWF
OpenPBR Volume is a new collaboration between Autodesk and SideFX to create a common model for defining the look of volumetric assets.
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 04/08/2025
Houdini 21 Sneak Peek A preview of some of the new features coming in Houdini 21
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Houdini 21 Sneak Peek
YouTube video by Houdini
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 29/07/2025
JangaFX has released IlluGen & GeoGen on macOS. Initial testing shows pretty good performance. Looking forward to LiquiGen for Mac soon too.
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JangaFX - GeoGen: Realtime terrain creation tool
Real-time VFX Software for the next generation of real-time VFX artists. Easily create visual effects simulations and assets.
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SideFX Houdini @sidefx.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Join us at SIGGRAPH 2025 for a first look at Houdini 21! Learn about enhancements to COPs, MPM and Solaris – new ML-based workflows – easy-to-use pyro presets – facial rigging with KineFX... and more! Use code HOUD1156 for a FREE Exhibits Only pass. www.sidefx.com/houdini-hive/...
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 24/07/2025
To support Blender’s mission of making 3D technology accessible to everyone, it's important to fully embrace tablet devices.
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Beyond Mouse & Keyboard — Blender Developers Blog
Get ready for blending on-the-go.
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TheArtofSaul @theartofsaul.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The popular open-source image sequence playback tool DJV has just been updated to v3, and some great new features have been added. 💪 darbyjohnston.github.io/DJV/
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DJV
DJV is an open source application for playback and review of image sequences
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 17/07/2025
Vertical Aerospace completes world first public airport-to-airport flight
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Vertical Aerospace completes world first public airport-to-airport flight
YouTube video by Vertical Aerospace
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David Neto 🇨🇦 @dneto.dev · 17/07/2025
Kudos to the Firefox team shipping #WebGPU on Windows. mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/s...
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Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141
After years in development, we will be releasing WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141! WebGPU gives web content a modern interface to the user’s graphics processor, enabling high-performance comp…
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Blender @blender.org · 15/07/2025
Blender Foundation and the online developer community proudly present Blender 4.5 LTS! Vulkan, faster EEVEE, improved compositor, Geometry Nodes, nearly 500 bugs fixed, and so, so much more. 👉 Release notes: www.blender.org/download/rel... 📺 Video recap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPhA... #b3d
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4.5 LTS — blender.org
With 2 years of updates, full Vulkan support, and quality-of-life improvements, Blender 4.5 LTS is every Blenderhead’s best friend.
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Blender @blender.org · 09/07/2025
Welcome Chaos Group to the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund as a Corporate Gold sponsor! fund.blender.org #b3d #DevFund
Chaos Group, new sponsor of the Blender Development Fund.
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TheArtofSaul @theartofsaul.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Patreon Tutorial #60 will be covering new USD Workflows. Including the new Redshift USD Procedural, USD Variants, USDZ, Solaris Layout + Asset Manager & more! Available July 4th. 🔧🪛 patreon.com/theartofsaul #Redshift3d #Maxon #SideFX #Houdini
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Maxon Redshift @maxonredshift.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
📢 Redshift 2025.5 is here! Update includes improved Cinema 4D's viewport previews, including UDIMs. Improved AO AOV, Intel OIDN 2.3.3. New support for Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, Houdini USDZ Procedural, Blender Point Cloud Objects & more! ✨ More info 👉 maxonvfx.com/404NW5m
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 19/06/2025
Game-changer or gimmick?: Virtual reality (VR) simulators in pilot training
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Game-changer or gimmick?: Virtual reality (VR) simulators in pilot training
Find out how virtual reality is improving pilot training with faster muscle memory, how the industry is merging FFS and AI, and VR alternatives.
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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 19/06/2025
Here we go: #GodotEngine 4.5 is ready for wider testing with its first beta snapshot! 🤖 🧪 As usual, it's feature-packed so we wrote a wordy blog post showcasing the main highlights in this new version. Please report any issue you encounter while testing on GitHub! godotengine.org/article/dev-...
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 1 – Godot Engine
Godot 4.5 has entered beta and is now feature-complete!
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Stu Maschwitz @prolost.com · 12/06/2025
Everything I always wondered about how Apple constructs immersive environments for Vision Pro is answered in this wonderfully nerdy video. Trigger word: Houdini www.youtube.com/watch?v=RELn...
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WWDC25: Optimize your custom environments for visionOS | Apple
YouTube video by Apple Developer
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 10/06/2025
I didn't have Apple releasing a toolkit for Houdini on my WWDC bingo card! Video: Optimise your custom environments for visionOS #houdini #wwdc #visionpro
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Optimize your custom environments for visionOS - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer
Discover how you can use procedural tools to create beautiful immersive environments for your visionOS app or game. We'll share the...
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famousandfaded @famousandfaded.com · 06/06/2025
The Last Great Thing Boeing Made?
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The Last Great Thing Boeing Made? | Full Documentary
YouTube video by Real Engineering
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