Utrecht-based Polder Animation has released Scrambled on Vimeo. The animated short film started life as a side project, it tells the story of a living Rubik’s cube that tries to get the attention of a commuter, who has missed her train, in an attempt to get solved. It has been on the festival circuit for the last year and a half where it won 14 awards. You can watch it on Vimeo and find out more on Polder Animation's website.

Thinkinetic has released Pulldownit 4.5 for Maya, the latest version of its shatter and destruction plugin. New features include:  (more...)

Act-3D has released the latest version of Lumion, its real-time platform aimed at the architectural visualisation industry. (more...)

Chaos Group has announced the latest version of Phoenix FD, its fluid dynamics plugin for 3DS Max and Maya. New features in version 3.12 include: (more...)

Clo Virtual Fashion has released an update to its cloth modelling and simulation tool Marvelous Designer. (more...)

TJ Free channel has uploaded 20 free tutorials to help users get up to speed with Natron, the open source compositing application. Watch the playlist on YouTube. 

A new SIGGRAPH Now video has been released in which Guilherme Jacinto, a Directing Animator at Disney Pixar explains how the skeletons in Coco came to life. SIGGRAPH Now is a new series that shares educational content from the SIGGRAPH Conferences. Watch it on YouTube.

Render Legion has announced a new beta for Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D. New features include Corona Node Material Editor, implicit conversion of native Cinema 4D lights and materials, dedicated Hair and Skin materials, new motion blur implementation, advanced Bokeh parameters, Team Render now works with denoising, UVW randomising. read more on the Corona Renderer website and see a demo on YouTube.