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(Updated) The video has gone on a tangent. It has been removed by the studio, we'll update this news item when it is available again.
Canada-based Tangent Animation has posted a video with a making of their animated feature film Ozzy. The studio used Blender to produce the film, and according to its website it's currently hiring artists for the next animated feature. Watch the making of video on Vimeo.

Render Legion announced that version Alpha 6 RC1 of its Corona renderer for Cinema 4D has been released, bringing UI improvements, a port to MacOS, lots of new features from the Corona core and stability improvements. More on Corona's website.

New features in Esri's 3D urban environment creation software include: OpenStreetMap-ready rule set, revised Inspector with faster user interface, enhanced Alembic exporter., etc. A trial version is available. More on Esri's site.

The stock footage website dedicated to VFX artists has released 3 new free collections of bullet FX: Bullet Hole Textures, Bullet Shells, and Bullet Hits Sound FX. Registration is required to download them. In addition, ActionVFX has also released 3 paid collections: Muzzle Flashes, Bullet Hits, and Gun Sound Effects. (more...)

New features in the open source framework for creating browser-based 3D visualizations, games and interactive presentations include: pathfinding using navigation meshes, new logic node for switching between camera movement styles, updates in the Project Manager and even more optimizations. More on Blend4Web’s website.

Also of note, an English translation of an article by Andrey Prakhov is available that compares the WebGL performance of Blend4Web and Unity.

This year's Blender Conference finished on Sunday and brought some interesting announcements regarding Cycles upcoming developments as well as Blender viewport improvements planned for v2.8. Also of note, Ton Roosendaal stated that companies such as Nimble, AMD, Tangent and Lulzbot are supporting full time developers for Blender. Canada-based Tangent Animation discussed publicly how their production system contributes to Blender development. Last but not least, videos from the talks given at the conference are starting to show up on YouTube.

Maxon has announced a collaboration with AMD to deliver GPU rendering in Cinema 4D through ProRender, AMD's OpenCL CPU/GPU renderer. ProRender is open source, cross-platform, freely available and offers bridge plugins for several 3D applications. More on Maxon's website.

Character animator Cameron Tyler has posted online her latest reel. She is currently available for remote freelance work with Maya and 3DS Max. Watch it on Vimeo.

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed the basis for a new electronic paper display that is less than a micrometre thin, flexible and can give all the colors that a regular LED display does. It also requires ten times less energy than a Kindle tablet. More on Chalmers University's website.

Digic Pictures has posted a video showing impressive work the studio did for the science fantasy anime film directed by Takeshi Nozue, based on the story of the video game Final Fantasy XV. Watch it on Vimeo.