3D artist and lighting TD Antonis Fylladitis has put together a great making of video of his recent work “Koi fish pond”. Watch it on Vimeo.

Australia-based Iloura has posted its latest FX & Environment and Creature reels.

Check out the latest music video produced for a Coldplay song, "Up&Up", which features inspiring visual effects, plenty of compositing work and surreal images. The video was co-directed by Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia. Watch it on Vimeo.

Google has announced Daydream, a platform for high quality mobile virtual reality. Google is working with a number of smartphone manufacturers to create a specification for Daydream-ready phones. These smartphones will enable VR experiences with high-performance sensors for smooth, accurate head tracking and fast response displays to minimize blur. Daydream-ready phones will take advantage of VR mode in Android N, a set of powerful optimizations for virtual reality built right into Android. Google has also created a reference design for a headset and controller. More on Google's website. (more...)

Along with a brand new website, SideFX has released Houdini 15.5. This latest version of Houdini brings a new crowd solver, third party rendering for Houdini Indie, new modeling tools, and much more. For the full list of features and upgrades you can visit

With v3.0 of the open source painting software soon to be released, a thorough video review has been made available by game designer Nathan Lovato, along with a text version, discussing the new features. Krita 3.0 will bring some major features such as animation support as well as significant performance improvements for handling large images, and it will also add some essential minor enhancements such as the ability to nudge a selection in single pixel increments. Also of note, Krita's 2016 Kickstarter campaign is still gathering funds for developing better text and vector drawing tools.

Daniel Martínez Lara demos the Bendy Bones improvements coming to Blender. Watch the video on Vimeo.

Swedish studio Important Looking Pirates has posted a breakdown of the VFX work they recently did for a spot for Fisherman's Friend. Watch it on Vimeo.