Chaos Group are set to premier V-Ray for Nuke and Katana at SIGGRAPH 2012, though little else has been released about the feature set at this point. Also showcased at SIGGRAPH will be V-Ray RT improvements including CUDA support, greater material and texture compatibility, motion blur, and proxies and instancing with RT. Forthcoming features for V-Ray will be demonstrated including deep pixel images support, metaballs, Alembic support, Vismat materials, and lens effects in the V-Ray frame buffer. Find out more at Chaos Group.

The Foundry has just released four reels that display commercial and non-commercial work done using their software packages Nuke, Mari, Ocula and Katana. Watch the Animation, Commercials, Television, and Film reels on Youtube.

Pixologic released another notable update to its sculpting, painting and detailing software. New features include: (more...)

An animated short by Studio AKA's David Prosser that pays homage to the city of Seoul. Watch it on Vimeo.

New features in the latest version of Thinkbox Software's render manager include: (more...)

Read the report on FCP.co.

CNN takes a look at current and upcoming technologies in 3D printing. More on CNN.

A funny short by London-based Bird Box Studio created with a few elements. Watch it on YouTube.

Cebas has posted information on development they have done for implementing a physically based microfacet model, which is useful for GPU-accelerated rendering of blurry/rough surfaces. More at Cebas.

A great new teaser for Juan José Campanella's animated CG feature with a table football-based story. Watch it on YouTube.