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MIT students have created a method that combines a desktop 3D printer with liquid nitrogen to print ice cream shapes. More on Techcrunch.

Budapest-based Digic Pictures have posted online their latest reel. Watch it on YouTube.

Kiwi Juice collects together in one place good quality self-published commercial tutorials by leading artists in in the concept art, illustration and 3D fields. See it at kiwijuice.net.

Australian artist Michael Wentworth-Bell recently consulted Zoltar, the CG Tarot Reader and spiritual guide, on the future of 3DS Max. According to Zoltar, 3DS Max will continue to evolve and won't be discontinued in the near future. More on Zoltar's Facebook page.

Samuel Conlogue has released a 2 part tutorial demonstrating the colouring and post production effects used at Infusion Studios. Part 1 focuses primarily on Magic Bullet Looks while part 2 is more advanced, with explanations on how to grade animated footage using After Effecs' built-in color correction tools in conjunction with Optical Flares and Real Smart Motion Blur from RE:Vision Effects. Watch part 1 and part 2 on the Infusion Effects website.

New features in Laubwerk's 3DS Max plugin and plants collections include: (more...)

Scanline VFX has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special and Visual Effects in a television series, for the work they recently completed on Game of Thrones Season 4 final episode. You can watch a breakdown video of Wight Attack Sequence on their Vimeo Channel.

ArtFX is a CG/VFX school located in the French city of Montpellier. The shorts made by students from the school have been drawing attention lately due to the high quality of their CG work and the amount of production being dedicated to them. ArtFX's emphasis is on mixing CG with live action, so they dedicate as much work to filmmaking. The scripts of their shorts are getting more polished, too (though only a few get to the quality one is used to seeing from Supinfocom - but that may change in the future). Additionally, they create great detailed making of videos for each of the shorts they produce. One of the best from their latest batch of shorts is Hybris, you can watch it on Filmnosis.