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FilmmakerIQ has posted a great video on Vimeo called "Hollywood's History of Faking It | The Evolution of Greenscreen Compositing". Anyone even remotely interested in the history of visual effects will enjoy this well delivered and informative view of the history of compositing in Hollywood. Watch it over on Vimeo.

Rodolphe Vaillant, Loïc Barthe, Gaël Guennebaud, Marie-Paule Cani, Damien Rhomer, Brian Wyvill, Olivier Gourmel and Mathias Paulin have put up a video on Vimeo for a SIGGRAPH 2013 paper showing a new "implicit skinning" technique they have developed. The video demonstrates its real-time speed and its ability to produce more realistic deformation in areas where you'd normally either lose volume or get unnatural deformation. Check it out on Vimeo.

If you have an NVIDIA card (at least an GTX670 though reportedly working on GTX660's as well) you can download NVIDIA's latest tech demo and check it out on your PC. The tech demo shows off what NVIDIA describes as a "lifelike human" named Digital Ira. Features on show here include real-time tessellation, subsurface scattering, a complete HDRI pipeline and more. Find out more and download the demo on NVIDIA's website.

A new version full of new features, modified features and bug fixes of the alternate frame buffer plugin VFB+ has been released. The new features are: (more...)

A hot topic of discussion when it comes to physics engines is often which is faster and more stable, PhysX or Bullet. A post on PhysXinfo claims that PhysX has been faster than Bullet for quite some time. According to Pierre Terdiman, senior software engineer at NVIDIA: (more...)

Another great SIGGRAPH paper has made its way to the web. This time it's a paper by Linjie Luo, Hao Li and Szymon Rusinkiewicz on how to recreate hair styles simply by inputting photographs. Check out the video on Youtube.

A nice, CG character oriented, commercial for HBO with VFX done by Pixomondo has been posted for everyone to see. Check it out on Youtube.

Ryoichi Ando, Nils Thürey and Chris Wojtan have put together a paper for SIGGRAPH 2013 demonstrating a new method for simulating liquids with extreme amounts of spatial adaptivity efficiently. The end result is what they claim to be a drastic reduction in simulation time for large-scale fluid phenomena. Read more on the paper's web page.

Based on research for SIGGRAPH 2013, university students Zhili Chen, Renguo Feng and Huamin Wang have a video up on Youtube showing the effects of air dynamics between cloth and soft bodies. One such example demonstrated in the video shows the effects of a pillow with a pillowcase on it. Watch the video on Youtube.

An impressive looking markerless facial motion capture video has been posted on Youtube. The software is being developed by Motion Capture Egypt (Snappers Systems) and you can watch the video and find out more over on their Facebook page.