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The VFX website FXGuide has in conjunction with Wired put up a behind-the-scenes look at ILM's work on the movie Kong's Skull Island. You can read it on FXGuide's website.

The company behind the popular Substance tools Substance Painter and Substance Designer has posted several videos from this past GDC. The videos consist of several different console and PC game developers discussing how Substance fits in their pipeline. Watch all the videos on Allegorithmic's Youtube page.

The very talented French VFX studio BUF has posted a showreel highlighting the work they've done over the past 30 years. The reel starts off with the work they did on cult hit "The City of Lost Children" from 1994 and ends with the work they did on "Independence Day Resurgence". Watch it on their Vimeo channel.

Union Visual Effects has posted a VFX breakdown of the work they did on the follow up to the hit Trainspotting. View the VFX breakdown on Vimeo.

Autodesk as put up a new showreel on their YouTube channel that showcases the many VFX projects Autodesk's software has been involved. Watch it on YouTube.

John Martini of Joker Martini has released a new shape plugin that automates the process of creating hanging cables (or perhaps vines) of geometry. The plugin costs $8 and can be bought on Joker Martini's website.

Paramount has released a 5 minute extended scene from their upcoming live-action remake of the popular Ghost in the Shell anime. Check it out on Youtube.

Jonathan de Blok has released the first Nyx SideKick beta which is a software that lets you work with Houdini and 3DS Max in an interconnected way. The current beta only supports 3DS Max 2017 and Houdini 16. The tool is being developed by Jonathan de Blok, Artur Leao and Daniel Santana. A tutorial has also been posted that you can view on Vimeo. More information and the installer can be found on the Facebook page HoudiniForMaxers.

Using the Oculus Rift headset, a couple of touch controllers and the VR sculpting program Oculus Medium, Southerngfx have created high quality sculpts which they've compiled into a reel that you can view on Vimeo. On their Vimeo channel you can also view tutorials that goes through this workflow.

Built using fractals Hal Tenny submitted various conceptual assets to the VFX teams working on the upcoming movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. The main fractal algorithm used was Mandelbulb 3D his assets contributed to both space phenomena as well as architectural details though Hal Tenny makes it clear that his assets were further conceptualized by the artists working on the VFX. Find out more on Hal Tenny's blog.