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Australia-based Binyan Studios has posted online its latest reel. Watch it on Vimeo.

FX artist Aleksandr Isakov has posted a great compilation of visual effects from feature films he worked on in recent years. Watch it on Vimeo.

Amazon announced the release of Lumberyard, a free cross-platform game engine for creating video games, connecting your games to the Amazon Web Services Cloud and engaging fans on Twitch. It is based on and is a branch of Crytek's CryEngine. Lumberyard is available today in beta for developers building PC and console games, support for mobile and VR platforms is coming soon. More on Gamasutra and Amazon.

The Animation Workshop keeps raising the bar. Check out the latest remarkable short created by students from the Danish school. Watch The Shepherd on Filmnosis.

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

Environment artist Wojciech Piwowarczyk has generously shared over 200 assets he scanned. All textures are 4096x4096 in Targa format, and all sets include albedo, normal, glossiness, bump, displacement, translucency and opacity maps. The artist spent a good amount of money on gear and hundreds of hours to create the textures, and asks those who can to support him by downloading the Complete set (all textures at once) for $6, which includes geometry for all assets mapped to fit the maps in High Poly, Decimated and Low Poly versions. More on Gumroad.

São Paulo-based Stratostorm studio has made available its latest reel with VFX breakdowns of its work. Watch it on Vimeo.

A script by Shawn Wang for After Effects that helps store frequently used effects so you don't have to constantly search them in the effects panel. More on Vimeo.

ZSceneManager is a ZBrush plugin by Exoside dedicated to speed up and facilitate the management of SubTools. It allows to arrange SubTools with folders in a standard hierarchy tree and easily group and move them with drag-and-drop actions. It also provides many features to modify multiple SubTools in one action (rename, merge, delete, incremental rename, etc.). 'Visibility configs' allow to quickly switch between different configurations of your Tools. The plugin is available in free and pro ($29) versions. More on Exoside's website.

A fun and epic short by students from Denmark-based The Animation Workshop. Great character designs, environments and animation. Watch Grandma’s Hero on Filmnosis.