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A developer by the name of SoHyeon Jeong has released a video demonstrating a new liquid simulation software that the developer claims to be the fastest and most stable physics engine available by using machine learning algorithms. (more...)

Swedish studio Fido recently completed a commercial for Flygresor.se and has posted a behind the scenes look at how it was made. You can check it out on their Vimeo channel.

Epic games posted four more videos today of the sessions they held at GDC, giving those of us who didn't have a chance to go to still benefit. (more...)

Disc is a simple primitive plugin to quickly make discs and other objects with some imagination. It's available on Joker Martini's website for $2.

When supervisors are on-set shooting and need good reference they often use lighting checkers that gives consistent reference of how the scene is affected by the different lighting conditions from shot to shot and scene to scene. Akromatic has released a variety of gray and chromatic spheres in different configurations for this use with the latest one named "Tiny". The name was chosen because of its size and portability. "Tiny" contains two spheres, one gray and one chromatic and both spheres are 9cm in size (it isn't specified if this is in radius or diameter). (more...)

Last week at GDC Andreas Glad held a presentation at SideFX's booth demonstrating in detail how DICE moved away from sprite based liquids to meshes generated in Houdini for Battlefield 1. Among other tips he demonstrates how they were able to keep it efficient without taking up too many resources on the current generation of consoles. This week he posted a recording of this presentation. Watch it on Vimeo.

Today Epic posted a video on their Youtube channel of one of their GDC 2017 sessions demonstrating upcoming Animation and Physics features for their popular game engine. Watch it on Youtube.

As earlier reported, the popular fluid dynamics plugin for 3DS Max and Maya has turned 10. Sitni Sati, developers of the software, have posted a new showreel showcasing work produced by various studios. Watch it on YouTube.

Vexus, the node-based scene assembly and render pass management application for 3DS Max by Boomer Labs and Joker Martini, has been updated to v2.0. Notable new features include support for Thinkbox Software's Deadline, presets and Universal Render Engine support. There are a total of 30 new features in v2.0. (more...)

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(Updated) This thread does not want to slide. An important message was just posted by Tom Hudson, with good news, he was contacted by Autodesk regarding the plugins he wrote. Furthermore, Tom Hudson offers Autodesk "joining a group of developers who would essentially resume the role of the Yost Group and take over primary development in return for some sort of royalty agreement, reducing Autodesk’s upfront costs while potentially increasing sales and customer satisfaction." He finishes his message to Autodesk with the following "Your customers will LOVE YOU for doing this. Your upfront investment will be SMALLER and you will MAKE MORE MONEY doing this. Think about it." Read Tom Hudson's message at the end of this post.
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