Finland-based Voima Graphics has posted a number of breakdowns from recent projects they have completed. They were all created using 3DS Max and V-Ray. Watch them on Vimeo: Bulevardi Breakdown, Plan B Colosseum Breakdown and Coca Cola Breakdown.

FuseFX has posted a reel of its Emmy nominated work they have done on the Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D television series. You can watch the reel on their Vimeo channel, and read a short interview regarding their work on the AWN website.

Fabric Software have posted a number of videos that they used at SIGGRAPH for demoing v2 of their platform for building high-performance graphics applications that can be run across various 3D software. Also of note, they have disclosed that they expect to release v2 in the next 4-6 weeks. Watch the videos on Fabric Software's website.

Developed by researchers from Paris-Sud University's LIMSI lab, BlenderVR is an adaptation of the open source software Blender to support CAVE/VideoWall, Head-Mounted Display and external rendering modality engines. It allows to run the Blender Game Engine on any virtual reality architecture and supports adaptive stereoscopy and communication protocols such as VRPN and OSC with minimal effort. A complete Sound Rendering Engine has been designed in Max/MSP. (more...)

Great video by Spanish artist Daniel Martínez Lara (Pepe-School-Land) experimenting with creating animated strokes with Blender's Grease Pencil tool. Watch it on Vimeo.

Australia-based Migenius have tested Iray 2015's performance on various graphics cards. Check out the results on their website.

3Dflow has released v2.0 of its image-based modeling software. The new version is a significant update that brings core improvements in speed, accuracy and a variety of new tools, including a cloud-based 3D scanning service called "3DF Sunny". Read on for more. (more...)

Kuler Islands is a new standalone tool developed by John Martini and Mathew Kaustinen (Boomer Labs) to make it easier for artists to generate UV templates for use in painting textures. The tool can batch generate UV Map png images for OBJ files exported from 3D applications, with various export options. Currently it only supports UV Space 1 and OBJ Files. The authors have generously released Kuler Islands as open source. Watch a video on Vimeo and find out more on Github.