Rodeo FX have released a behind the scenes look at some of the work they did on The Legend of Tarzan. Watch it on Vimeo.

Autodesk recently interviewed FuseFX regarding they work they did on the Netflix series, Luke Cage. You can read the full interview on the Area website. (Disclaimer: The Q+A may contain spoilers for episodes 1 and 2)

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have combined archaeology with CG to reconstruct a house in Pompeii to its original state before the volcano eruption of Mount Vesuvius thousands of years ago. The city district was scanned during field work in 2011–2012 and the first 3D models of the ruin city have now been completed. More on Lund University's website.

A great short by Yonatan Tal on traveling and excess baggage. Watch Overweight on Filmnosis.

VRto.me is a new site by Stanley Brusse designed to quickly convert cubemaps into panorama tours. It allows you to add hotspots, get links to your projects and easily share your VR work with your clients by creating VR tours in a few clicks, which can be viewed with VR headsets or web browser. VRto.me works well with V-Ray, Corona, Octane, FStorm and any other renderer that can render cubemaps. Payment is required to remove watermarks and access certain features. More on VRto.me.

The latest version of Next Limit's renderer brings GPU rendering (on NVidia graphic cards with CUDA support), Multilight standalone, revamped material gallery, Rhino for Mac support, improved Revit integration, etc. The Madrid-based company has implemented licensing changes that now allow to choose only one integration plugin for use with a 3D application when purchasing Maxwell, and requires to pay for extra ones (previously all integration plugins were available to Maxwell owners). The changes resulted in numerous complaints from users, which Next Limit is trying to address by giving those who are upgrading from previous versions 2 licenses per upgrade. (more...)

Art of VFX has interviewed Craig Hammack about his work as VFX supervisor on Deepwater Horizon and the complexities of creating simulations for a disaster film set on an oil rig. Read it on Art of VFX.

A nunmber of 360° panoramas have been created by Luc Bianco using Planetside's landscape creation and rendering software. More on Luc Bianco's website.