(Updated) RandomControl have opened a section on their site that will be showing new features in Arion 3. The first teaser presents support for hair primitives, as well as integration with Ephere's Ornatrix plugin. More on RandomControl's website.
Shortly after releasing Arion for Max v2.7.0, RandomControl announced that a beta of v3 of its hybrid-accelerated and physically-based renderer is available to current owners of the software. More on RandomControl's website.

Exocortex announced the release of a 3DS Max connection script for their online 3D modeling, animation and rendering software. Developed by Dutch artist/programmer Klaas Nienhuis, the script allows to upload and download scenes from 3DS Max to your Clara.io account with a simple click of a button. If you have V-Ray installed, it also allows for the transfer of V-Ray materials. (more...)

New features in Cl3ver's browser-based 3D engine include: support for all recent browsers and operating systems (using WebGL or Flash Player), loads 3 times faster, reduced memory consumption by 50%, etc. More on Cl3ver.com.

Adobe, makers of such tools as Photoshop and After Effects, have announced the latest release of their Creative Cloud toolkit, Adobe CC 2014. There are lots of updates across all of their desktop applications including new masking and tracking tools in After Effects CC, and the mobile release of Adobe Lightroom for iPhone. For full details you can check out the Adobe Creative Cloud website.

Adobe, makers of such tools as Photoshop and After Effects, have announced the latest release of their Creative Cloud toolkit, Adobe CC 2014. There are lots of updates across all of their desktop applications including new masking and tracking tools in After Effects CC, and the mobile release of Adobe Lightroom for Iphone. For full details you can check out the Adobe Creative Cloud website.

VFX Supervisor and artist Allan Mckay, is hosting a 14 week intense technical director course which focuses on writing your own pipeline tools and turning you into a next-level artist. Admission closes on Friday, June 20th, 2014, with the course starting on July 1, 2014. For full details on this course you can visit the TD Transformation website.

Adobe will be unveiling what's new in the latest version of their Creative Cloud toolkit this coming Wednesday, June 18th, 2014. You can sign up to view the online presentation over at Adobe's Creative Cloud website.

Next Limit Software has released the latest version of their fluid and dynamics toolset, RealFlow 2014. This latest release brings changes and enhancements to the UI, a new Hybrido Viscosity Solver, Ocean Force daemon, a refined interactive meshing process, and much more. For the full details on this latest release of RealFlow, you can head over to Next Limit's RealFlow website.

Next Limit Software has released the latest version of their fluid and dynamics toolset, RealFlow 2014. This latest release brings changes and enhancements to the UI, a new Hybrido Viscosity Solver, Ocean Force daemon, a refined interactive meshing process, and much more. For the full details on this latest release of RealFlow, you can head over to Next Limit's RealFlow website.

The latest impressive work from Archviz artist Bertrand Benoit, a recreation of the Labrouste Reading Hall from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. The project was made for testing and pushing the limits of Itoo Software's RailClone capabilities. More on BBB3viz and Flickr.