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VFX artist and TD Heribert Raab has been using Houdini to experiment with meshing fractals into real geometry, with some greatly aesthetic results. More on the OD|Force forum.

New features in 3Dflow's image-based modeling software include: (more...)

LA-based Aaron Sims Creative has posted online its latest design & VFX reel featuring plenty of CG creatures. Watch it on YouTube. (Mature content)

Next Limit's Thomas Schlick has released issue 3 of his free ezine dedicated to RealFlow. This issue focuses on how to create simulations of fluid splashes and tendrils. Download it from Waterline.tv.

A trailer has been released for the indie game Strike Vector, a first person aerial combat game with high-speed dogfights developed by Ragequit Corporation. The video was created using 3DS Max and V-Ray. Watch it on Vimeo. (more...)

New features in Google's 3D painting software for VR include: (more...)

The Rock Essentials is a collection that offers hundreds of scanned rocks for Blender. It includes small rock models as well as large rock elements, scanned ground materials, rock materials and scanned rock brushes that use real height information from sections of cliffs that let you to sculpt realistic rocks. The rock models come with handy controls for adjusting the saturation, value, reflection and more, without needing to dig through node setups. Three sample rock models are available for download. A Lite version is priced at $217 (brings 180 rocks + 16 cliffs) and the Ultimate version costs $397 (brings 267 rocks, 23 cliffs, 13 grounds, 33 brushes and 47 materials). More on Blender Guru.

Spaceship Generator is a Blender add-on by Michael Davies for procedurally generating 3D spaceships from a random seed. It is being further developed by Patan Amrulla Khan. More on GitHub.

New features in the open source Blender add-on for creating rigged 3D human and anime models include: skin editor, meta parameters, ability to load and save custom poses, professional light studio setup, etc. More on Manuel Bastioni's website.

New features in the open source framework for creating browser-based 3D visualizations, games and interactive presentations include: hardware-accelerated geometry instancing, multi-touch support, upgraded depth of field effect (now with bokeh) and multiple improvements to the audio subsystem including implementation of the Doppler effect. More on Blend4Web’s website.