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IDV has released a new reel of games work created with help from Speedtree. Watch it on YouTube.

Interior Designer & 3D artist Martin Darzacq has written a making-of tutorial for a nicely lit bar scene. Read it on Ronen Bekerman's blog.

If there was an award for the most disturbing plugin it would surely go to MR Dentist by UnPLUG tools. The Maya plugin is an art-directable teeth, gums and dentures creation tool that promises to allow users to create complex dentistry in just a few minutes. It costs $20 and is available now from Gumroad.

Amazon has announced that a beta of Lumberyard 1.24 is now available with several improvements including updates to Script Canvas, the Editor, and asset management and bundling. See the full list of new features in the Lumberyard documentation.

To mark the 40th anniversary of the day since PAC-MAN was first released in Japan, NVIDIA has announced a version of the game recreated entirely by an AI. (more...)

Foundry has announced the latest version of Colorway, its app for creating design variations that allows user to manipulate colours, textures and more without needing to rerender. (more...)

Update A TopoGun 3 beta is now available. Anyone can use it in demo mode and existing TopoGun 2 users can activate the beta with their existing license codes. Get it from the new TopoGun 3 website. (more...)

Rodeo FX Montreal junior lighting artist Nevin Ricquebourg has released a reel of his lighting and lookdev work. Watch it on Vimeo.

(Do you have a reel you'd like to see featured? Just let us know.)

EA has announced that it is to release the source code for Command and Conquer and Red Alert. (more...)

Chaos Group has announced a new update to V-Ray for Houdini. New features include: (more...)