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Another quality animated short created by students from The Animation Workshop, with a strong story and great work on lighting and aesthetic. Watch Untamed on Filmnosis.

A great, playful short by Taha Neyestani that focuses on the experience of life drawing, produced at Sheridan College. Watch it on Filmnosis.

Epic Games previews the Unreal Editor running in VR. More on Unreal Engine's website.

A new trailer is up for Blue Sky Studios' animated film, the fifth installment in the Ice Age series. Watch it on YouTube.

Autodesk announced a restructuring plan that will reduce staffing levels in the near-term by approximately 10%, or approximately 925 positions, and will consolidate certain leased facilities. The company expects that this will result in additional cost savings in fiscal year 2017 and beyond, and intends to reinvest a portion of the savings in areas critical to its platform and business model transition. (more...)

New features in the latest version of 9b Studios' toolkit for creating lighting setups for high-quality rendering include: (more...)

The Mill has posted a video with a making of The Chemical Brothers’ Wide Open music video. Watch it on Vimeo.

FoldFx is a commercial script for 3DS Max by Kamil Małagowski designed for quick creation of poly folding animations for motion graphics work. It provides various useful options for controlling the animation. More on the author's website.

Sitni Sati has made available a video created with a beta of v4.0 of its fluid dynamics plugin for Maya, and rendered with Arnold. Watch it on Vimeo.

Slovakia-based CapturingReality has released RealityCapture, a software that automatically reconstructs 3D models from a set of photos, laser scans, UAV or synchronized camera rigs. It offers a fast core that delivers quality and accurate models with low demand on computer hardware, allowing it to be used for large scale projects. RealityCapture can combine laser scans and photos to create accurate 3D reconstructions, and its fast draft mode can align 500x12 megapixel images in less than 10 minutes on a notebook, right at the field. (more...)