New features in the latest version of IPi Soft's markerless motion capture system include: (more...)

Hungarian artist Tomek Ducki has created a great short that mixes 2D animation with some subtle use of 3D. Watch Baths on Filmnosis.

Remington Graphics has posted a video demonstrating the PBR capabilities of Blender's upcoming real-time rendering engine. Named Eevee (after the Pokemon Character) the engine will be included with Blender 2.8, but is available now for testing in the development builds. Watch it on YouTube or read about the Eevee road map on the Blender Developers Blog.

German artist Florian Renner has made another great video inspired by 80s aesthetics, this time for promoting the synthwave collection "Magnatron 2.0". The collection is published by New Retro Wave, a label dedicated to promoting the best music in the Retrowave/Synthwave scene (a musical genre inspired by 80s and early 90s music). Watch it on Vimeo. For those who enjoy listening to familiar songs from those years check out the themes from Archon (Original Recording), Marble Madness, M.U.L.E., Spelunker and R-Type, among others. (more...)

Miopia FX have posted a breakdown of the work they did for Peugeot 5008. Watch it on Vimeo.

Allan McKay has launched his latest training series for 3DS Max. This Fireball Mega Course is free and is available now through July 14, 2017. Full details can be found on Allan's site.

Oats Studios has released their first experimental short film titled, Rakka. Watch it on YouTube.

Renowned archviz artist Bertrand Benoit has posted a new project and making-of article online, a superb interior render in the Scandinavian style with a focus on adding subtle imperfections. To capture these, Bertrand used many advanced techniques including unwrapping, manually painting and sculpting nearly everything, creating plants with GrowFX, fabrics with Marvelous Designer, and capturing real world displacement textures and objects using photogrammetry. More about the scene on BBB3viz where there is also a supplementary post that discusses Bertrand's post production workflow using his tool of choice ArionFX, but also how to recreate the techniques using Photoshop's built-in features.