Senior FX artist / TD Steven Dupuy has posted his latest reel online with plenty of work done with Houdini. Watch it on Vimeo.

All the studios in one place. CGStudioMap, the website founded by Jordi Riera, is now back offering improved functionality. The site gathers and shares information about CG studios around the world, and allows to search by keyword such as type of business or city. More on CGStudioMap's site. (Registration required)

A teaser is available for the upcoming animated film directed by Alex Orrelle and Eduardo Schuldt, based on the original comic series created by Chilean artist René Ríos (a.k.a. Pepo). The film will be produced by Aronnax Animation and Pajarraco Films. Watch the teaser on YouTube.

Rui Batista has released two new plugins for Cinema 4D. PicHUD allows to display an animated movie frame in your editor viewport for modeling and animation reference. ToPoly creates polygonal live instances of parametric objects. Visit the author's website for more.

Massive Software announced the upcoming release of v8.0 of its crowd simulation software, which brings the ability to simulate and display 20,000 agents in real-time and streamlines the process of creating custom agent brains thanks to a new Parts feature. (more...)

The latest version of Andersson Technologies' camera tracking software introduces a Geometric Hierarchy Tracking system with a new toolset for tracking entire hierarchies of moving parts, such as arms, legs, heads, doors, pizza boxes, etc. The new release brings 100+ new features, including Alembic export, BVH import and export, updated exporters to support deforming meshes, Hierarchy view and panel with drag re-parenting, etc. Watch some tutorials covering the new features and find out more on Andersson Technologies' website.

Moscow-based Melt VFX studio has posted its liquids reel online. Created with Houdini, rendered with Corona Renderer and V-Ray. Watch it on Vimeo.

FX TD HyunGi Jeon has posted his latest reel with plenty of VFX work, created mostly with Houdini, RealFlow, 3DS Max and FumeFX. Watch the reel on Vimeo.