A great short with a supernatural subject created by students from the Filmakademie Baden Württemberg, using Cinema 4D. Watch Zing on Filmnosis. (Note: the film was made some years ago, but it took a while to be released online)

The Blender Foundation has released another significant update to its open source 3D software. New features include: (more...)

The 2D animation software developed by Rome-based Digital Video has been acquired by Japanese publisher Dwango, and will be released as open source on March 26. The OpenToonz version will include features developed by Studio Ghibli (Toonz Ghibli Edition), which has been a long time Toonz user. Through OpenToonz, Dwango will create a platform that will aim to have research labs and the animated film industry actively cooperating with each other. (more...)

Researchers from UCLA and Walt Disney Animation Studios have presented a new method for simulating viscoelastic fluids, foams and sponges. Watch a video on Vimeo and find out more on ACM's website.

Mexican artist Guillermo Leal Llaguno has made available a personal project he has been working on for some time: a recreation of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art building, originally designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta. Guillermo used 3DS Max and Corona render for the project. Check out a virtual tour and a number of renders on the artist's website.

(Updated) Allegorithmic's Fabrice Piquet has written a more detailed description of the new features brought by the recent 2.0 release. New videos have also been added (see below). (more...)

8monkey Labs has made available a video showing work created by artists using the upcoming v3 of its physically-based realtime model viewer and presentation software. Watch it on Vimeo.

PhysXInfo takes a look at the latest technologies introduced for NVidia PhysX: PhysX-GRB, a new hybrid CPU/GPU physics pipeline that improves performance by a factor of up to 6X for moderate to heavy simulation loads, and NVidia Flow, a computational fluid dynamics algorithm that simulates and renders combustible fluids such as fire and smoke. Unlike previous methods, Flow isn't limited to simulation of the fluids inside a bounding box. More on PhysXInfo's website.