Interior Designer & 3D artist Martin Darzacq has written a making-of tutorial for a nicely lit bar scene. Read it on Ronen Bekerman's blog.

If there was an award for the most disturbing plugin it would surely go to MR Dentist by UnPLUG tools. The Maya plugin is an art-directable teeth, gums and dentures creation tool that promises to allow users to create complex dentistry in just a few minutes. It costs $20 and is available now from Gumroad.

Amazon has announced that a beta of Lumberyard 1.24 is now available with several improvements including updates to Script Canvas, the Editor, and asset management and bundling. See the full list of new features in the Lumberyard documentation.

Quixel has released a new series of videos in which  Isac Crafoord demonstrates how to create an abandoned apartment in Unreal Engine 4 using Megascans assets, Bridge and Mixer. The videos are on Youtube and split into 3 parts covering the design process, set dressing, and lighting. 

To mark the 40th anniversary of the day since PAC-MAN was first released in Japan, NVIDIA has announced a version of the game recreated entirely by an AI. (more...)

Early last year, NVIDIA published a free book on best practices for real-time ray tracing called Ray Tracing Gems. NVIDIA has now followed this up with Ray Tracing Essentials, a free a seven-part video series hosted by the book's editor Eric Hainesthe. (more...)

Foundry has announced the latest version of Colorway, its app for creating design variations that allows user to manipulate colours, textures and more without needing to rerender. (more...)