News of the Week for February 13-20, 2021

Splash image: Broken heart and torn dreams by ProudAlaskan

Gallery of the Week is the 3D Modeling Gallery. Nearly 14,000 posts in the interesting gallery We've chosen 10 works from the Illustration Gallery to feature in our weekly gallery video.

Poser Pulse celebrates Valentine's Day! Now you can have your heart's desire with these sweet savings! These new releases by RPublishing are at 40% off from now until Wednesday, February 17th 9:59 am (cst).

Interviews with our Artist of the Month and Vendor of the Month. Artandreas (AOM) talks about his background and working methods as does Coflek-Gnorg (VOM). And don't miss the video galleries created for our winners. Each video features 10 works from their galleries/store.

MetaHuman: Realistic Humans For UE4 by nemirc. This week, Epic Games released the "MetaHumans" sample project. MetaHumans are digital humans created by MetaHumans Creator, an application that Epic Games might be releasing soon. They have a website where they explain what MetaHumans Creator is about: it's a cloud-based human character creation tool that lets you create very realistic humans, from a pre-existing library, to be used in Unreal Engine.

Artist of the Week - Axolotl2. Axolotl2 is our choice for Artist of the Week for Feb 8 2021. This artist has such a great sense of humor. Combine that with a talent for creating surrealist scenes and you have a winning combination. axolotl2 will put a smile on your face while you marvel at his beautiful landscapes and poetic imagery. He's great.

Substance Painter for Beginners Tutorial: Intro to Basic Texturing. Ever wanted to nail the basics of Substance Painter? In this video, the wonderful Alexia Housden demonstrates the ins and outs of Substance Painter, showing you how to get easily started with your first piece!