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Anselm von Seherr-Thoss has posted a breakdown of the 3DS Max ashing effect he created for the television series Grimm. Watch it on Vimeo.

Rising Sun Pictures has released a 2017 reel featuring their FX and simulation work for film. Watch it on YouTube.

AWN speaks to MPC's VFX supervisor Axel Bonami regarding the work MPC did for the film, Ghost in the Shell. You can read the full interview on the AWN website.

Arman Yahin has posted a breakdown of Main Road Post's work for the film, Night Guards. Watch it on Vimeo.

Cebas have released Drop 5 for ThinkingParticles, new features in the rule-based particle system for procedural creation of VFX include VolumeBreaker Clustering, ShapeNoise, FlowEmitter and more. The software is available through rental-only licensing at $660 per year. For full details you can visit the Cebas website. Watch the new features video on YouTube.

The team at Next Limit have posted a new showreel featuring recent work created using Realflow. Watch it on Vimeo.

The Mill has posted a behind the scenes look at the work they did for Under Armour Rule Yourself. Watch it on Vimeo.

Erik Wernquist was commissioned by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to produce a video portraying the ending of the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn. Watch it on Vimeo.

Allegorithmic has published an interview with Double Negative's Lead TD Generalist, Marc Austin, where he discussed how they used Allegorithmic's Substance Designer on the recently released film, Assassin's Creed. You can read the full interview on the Allegorithmic website. (Note: expect questions aimed at publicizing Allegorithmic's software)

Redshift is coming to Mac OS X. The popular GPU-based renderer will first be released for Maya on OS X, then Cinema 4D and Houdini will follow. For more details you can visit the Redshift forums.