A fun and creative short by Supinfocom students Rémy Busson, Francis Canitrot, Aurélien Duhayon, Sébastien Iglesias, Maxence Martin and Paùl Monge. Watch it on Filmnosis.

New features in the latest version of Unity Technologies' integrated authoring tool for creating video games and other interactive content include: ability to develop for BlackBerry 10, Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store platforms. The 4.2 release also brings new graphics, audio and mobile features to both free and commercial versions. (more...)

The Khronos Group announced the release of v4.4 of the OpenGL cross-platform graphics API, as well as those of OpenCL 2.0, the open standard for cross-platform, parallel programming. More on Khronos' site: OpenGL 4.4 press release, OpenCL 2.0 press release.

Solid Angle has posted a new reel showing the latest work created with Marcos Fajardo's renderer. Watch it on YouTube.

Side Effects presents its latest reel featuring work created with Houdini. Watch it on Vimeo.

Tweak Software will be showing a new version of its image sequence viewer at SIGGRAPH. RV 4.0 is built on top of the RVX Core, a new hardware accelerated image processing architecture that combines fast IO, resolution-independent image handling, hardware accelerated floating point image processing, and advanced color management. More information on RV can be found on Tweak Software's website.

The Blender Foundation announced the release of the latest version of its open source 3D software. New features include: (more...)

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.

AAA Studio announced the new features of v4 of their interactive, production quality GPU renderer. (more...)

Image Metrics' Faceware Live is a software that captures a live actor's facial performance with any video source, and instantly transfers that performance to a 3D character in real time. (more...)