Blackburrow Creative studio has made a fun video with a parody of The Mill's Blackbird adjustable car rig. Watch it on YouTube.

Paris based Machine Molle has released a reel of their recent VFX work. Watch it on Vimeo.

A short interview with Wiktor Öhman, art lead at Quixel, about their forthcoming game Homebound. The project originated as a demo scene set in a space station to showcase the use of Quixel tools, but has become a short playable game with 3 levels and 10 - 30 minutes of gameplay. You can read more about the game on Steam Greenlight and read the interview on 80lvl.

Isotropix has announced Clarisse 3.0, a significant new release of its software that blends compositing, layout, animation and rendering functionality into a single application. New features include: (more...)

Inverse has published an article discussing some of the visual effects used in the reboot of Ghostbusters. You can read the full article on the Inverse website.

Laubwerk has released a new collection of realistic 3D plants, Kit 8 brings the company's first pack of shrubs and bushes. Laubwerk Plants Kits provide tools that allow for quick adjustment of shape, age, season and level of detail for each 3D plant. The new kit is available for 3DS Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Houdini (Windows) and Python (Windows), and is priced at 149 Euro (w/o VAT). Multi-user and EDU discounts available. More on Laubwerk's website.

Mikros Image has created new channel IDs for one of France's public TV channels, featuring CG animals playing various music styles: “Les marmottes” - Vahiné, “Les marmottes” - Gypsy.

Dynamic IRR is a new free plugin by Rui Batista for Cinema 4D designed for dynamically adjusting the Interactive Render Region to an object, a set of objects, the whole window or just the render size. More on the author's website.