Shahin Toosi has posted two videos which give a basic overview of V-Ray for Nuke. In this two part series, Shahin shows us how he created a sci-fi city scene using V-Ray inside of Nuke. Both videos can be found on Shahin's Vimeo channel.

The first release candidate of v1.6 of LuxRender is out. New features in the latest version of the unbiased, production-oriented open source renderer include: major improvements to the LuxCore render engine, shadow catcher objects, sky ground color, new image pipeline, much better support for nodes in Blender, automatic Blender materials conversion from Cycles, etc. The 3DS Max plugin has also been reworked and is now much better integrated. Check out an overview of the new features and find out more on LuxRender's Website.

New features in Exoside's Brush plugin dedicated to speed up management of SubTools include: Merge for sculpt (allows to sculpt, paint, move/rotate/scale multiple SubTools all as one), hotkeys, call ZBrush commands on multiple SubTools in one click, new 'Texture' Column, Maya compatibility. The plugin is available in free and pro ($29) versions. More on Exoside's website.

Unity Technologies announced Unity Collaborate, a new set of features for Unity dedicated to making it easy for teams members to save, share, and sync their work together. More on Unity's blog.

Cebas has released ThinkingParticles 6.3, and has posted a video outlining the new caching system that offers 10 times faster Cache read/write operations. This latest release also allows for Alembic file read and write operations, new Implicit Surfacing Options, and much more. You can read more on the Cebas website.

Blizzard Entertainment has made available a promotional video for its upcoming multiplayer team-based shooter that uses a cast of various "heroes". Watch it on YouTube.

New features in Autodesk's computer-aided design software include: smart centerlines and center marks, import PDF files, ability to share your 2D and 3D CAD drawings in the cloud (with people who don't have AutoCAD), easier migration of your custom settings and files from previous releases, etc. AutoCAD is available through rental licensing. Watch a new features video and find out more on Autodesk's website.

Vizpark is having a sale of its models, plugins and HDRIs for Archviz, with discounts going from 25-40%. The sale lasts until March 31st. More on Vizpark.