Full-screen playback, and the capybara joins the cast

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• Watch full screen. Every video player — the finished cut, the cut up for review, takes in the Director and Generate, Playground results and Assets — has a Full screen button, and double-clicking the video does the same. Player mode fills the screen and picks up where the small player was: Space plays and pauses, the arrow keys seek and set the volume, M mutes, and Esc or F hands the position back to the small player.

• The capybara is a feature character. It is now built by the same data-driven character builder as the panda — a sculpted, skinned body on the biped rig with a long blunt muzzle, nostrils high on its tip, small ears set far back, calm deep-set eyes, a paler belly, dark webbed toes and two front teeth — so it acts out every move and expression in the library and grows fur at final quality. Eyes and lids can now be aimed in a character definition, so side-set eyes look outward instead of straight ahead.

• Sunlit 3D shots are lit from the front. The sun rig placed the sun and its sky fill behind the subject relative to the camera, so outdoor shots without a kit environment rendered as silhouettes. Both now sit in front, the sun on the key side.

• No shot-code slate in the film. Feature-look takes no longer render the previz slate, so it stops showing up in the director's cut.

• Bare stages are flagged. A feature-look shot with no environment, backdrop or HDRI now warns the directing agent, which fixes it in the same repair loop as the other checks.

• Switching productions no longer mixes them up. Opening another production while a director run was breaking down its story could write that breakdown into the production you switched to, replacing its story and shots. The switch now waits until the run reaches a gate, and a breakdown only ever lands in the production it started in. The Story, Cast & World and other workspaces also reload when you switch, instead of keeping the previous production's text.