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A fun short by Camille Roux, student at French school MOPA. Created using 3DS Max, V-Ray and AE. Watch it on Filmnosis.

The Foundry has made available video recordings of presentations given at its booth during the recent NAB show, including "What’s new in Nuke Studio, NukeX & Nuke 9", "Future tech preview AR, VR & Ftrack", etc. Watch them on The Foundry's Vimeo channel.

Brazilian artist Dalai Felinto has written a Blender addon that allows to use the the Blender viewport on VR devices. The addon is in pre-alpha stage. Watch a sample video on YouTube and find out more on GitHub.

Two alumni from French animation school Gobelins, Max Maleo and Aurelien Prédal, who worked on the short film Burning Safari ten years ago, got together once again to collaborate on a new fast-paced CG short called Batz. The film's production was funded thanks to a Kickstarter campaign. Watch the film on Batz' website.

London-based Stinkdigital has created an interactive tour of the renowned Abbey Road Studios in collaboration with Google. Various CG technologies were used to capture and integrate the different elements that compose the presentation, including Lidar scanning, panoramic images, WebGL, etc. The resulting browser-based interactive presentation showcases the studio's history, its legendary stories (The Beatles, Pink Floyd and many others recorded their songs at the studio), and the equipment and engineers. A collection of microphones was also recreated in 3D by Studio Aiko using Modo, with rendering done with V-Ray. More information on Stinkdigital, Google's blog and the Inside Abbey Road Studios website.

Autodesk's Christopher Diggins has released a set of 30 sample MCG tools and 80 new compounds that you can download, use and study. More on Autodesk's Area.

Talented artist and coder Clovis Gay has been testing the new Max Creation Graph by translating some of his scripts into MCG modifiers. Watch his first tests on Vimeo: MCG first test, Bezier Attractor & Spline Push.

A curvature to vertex color modifier created with MCG by Christopher Diggins. Download it from Autodesk's Area.

A modifier by Changsoo Eun to extract the difference (deltas) between two meshes and apply the deltas to a different mesh. It can be used to make a corrective morph target. More on Changsoo Eun's website.

A modifier by Changsoo Eun for swapping material IDs in your current material. You can swap up to 10 sets of IDs at once. More on Changsoo Eun's website.