Alfred Imageworks has released a breakdown video showcasing their work on the cinematic trailer for the game Moonlight Blade.  Watch it on Vimeo.

Turbosquid has announced that StemCell format conversion is now live for its community, enabling the automated creation of assets in formats compatible with popular DCC applications and renderers. At launch users can upload a single model from 3DS Max with V-Ray or Mental Ray, Maya with V-Ray or Mental Ray, or Cinema 4D with Physical Render and automatically create versions that support all of these combinations, in addition to Unity and Unreal (provided metallic maps are also supplied). Future updates plan to add support for Arnold to the existing formats as well as Blender with Cycles and Lumberyard. Read more about StemCell on the Turbosquid website.

USens has announced USensAR, a new augmented reality engine for Android which is aimed at bringing the technology to low-end devices as well as the more powerful hardware already catered for by Google's ARCore.  According to USens this will open up AR to 2 Billion devices. You can read more on the USens website.  

Cebas has released a preview video of AI denoising in FinalRender TrueHybrid using NVIDIA OptiX 5.0 technology. According to Cebas, subscribers will soon receive an update making this feature available. Watch it on YouTube.

Hendrik-Jan Schoenmaker has released TexTools for Blender, a free add-on that includes several useful UV and texturing related tools. TexTools is based on Hendrik's original script of the same name originally created  for 3DS Max. The add-on is still in its early days with many features promised for the future. Find out more on Blender Artists and download from BitBucket.

Ingenuity Studios has released a new reel showcasing its VFX work for television. Watch it on Vimeo.