MPC have posted a breakdown of the vfx work they did on Heineken 'The Tutorial'. Watch it on Vimeo.

CG Spectrum speaks with Iloura VFX Supervisor, Glenn Melenhorst, regarding Iloura's work on Game of Thrones. Watch it on Vimeo.

Shawn Wang has released his graduation thesis film titled, Planet Unknown. Along with writing and directing the film, Shawn also did the modelling, texturing, animation, compositing & editing. Watch it on Vimeo.

Dan Glass is the Visual Effects Supervisor for the soon-to-be released film, Voyage of Time. In this video, he speaks about the challenges of marrying visual effects with scientific data and how they went about creating the visuals used in the film. Watch it on YouTube.

Zybrand Jacobs has posted a breakdown of the Houdini ocean effects he worked on for Roots Night One. Watch it on Vimeo.

Allegorithmic has published an interesting article about democratising scanning by using smartphone technology, including some tips for getting the most out of their basic cameras. Also available in the article are some filters for substance tools to remove lighting information from albedo maps, these are presented here as a work in progress but it is mentioned they will be included in future versions of the substance tools. Read the article on Allegorithmic's blog.

RandomControl has announced that ArionFX is now available for After Effects. The EXR processing suite includes 32 bit tools for firefly removal, color grading, bloom and glare, chromatic aberration, aperture,obstacle and dirt maps, HDR upcasting to push lens effects, and tone-mapping. ArionFX is also available for Photoshop and Nuke. Find out more on RandomControl's website.

Autodesk recently demonstrated a new animation technology named Project Draco, designed to produce "dynamic drawings"with kinetic textures.This is now available to download for iOS and has been rebranded as Sketchbook Motion, with a sketch-based interface that offers a user friendly way to add animation effects and interactivity to drawings including easy to use tweening, randomising and cloning tools. More on the Sketchbook blog.