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Erik Jansson has posted an interesting animation that definitely breaks the mold of the usual architectural animation. Modeled in Blender, rendered in Octane and composited in After Effects. Watch it on Vimeo.

(Updated) Exlevel has officially released GrowFX 1.7.0. More at Exlevel.
New features in Exlevel's plugin for creating and animating trees, plants, flowers and various types of vegetation include: new direction modifier, "Wind animation" and "Wind" helper object, ease of use and speed improvements, support of the Nitrous viewport graphics mode in Max 2012, new direction modifier "Hard Bend" as well as minor bug fixes. Check out some notable trees and grass wind animations, and find out more at Exlevel.com.

New features in the latest version of Glare Technologies' Indigo Renderer include: real time scene editing, GPU acceleration that offers speedups of 2-3x, built-in animation and render queue support, improved bump mapping, improved rendering performance and image quality, new network rendering support, and the addition of improved subdivision and displacement. More at indigorenderer.com.

Pixar has released a teaser trailer for their new 'coming of age' short film, La Luna. Directed by Enrico Casarosa. Watch it on YouTube.

Pixar has released a teaser trailer for their new 'coming of age' short film, La Luna. Directed by Enrico Casarosa. Watch it on YouTube.