The Multi-Eye ZTool is a ZBrush tool by Melbourne-based artist Pablander, designed for quick creation of different types of eyes for your characters and creatures. Pablander has generously released it for free. More on Pablander's website.

California-based artist Ben Ridgway has been experimenting with creating abstract digital sculptures in ZBrush. He's now made a video with a compilation of these sculptures, using ZBrush and After Effects. Watch the video on Vimeo and find more of his work on the ZBrushCentral.

Unity Technologies has released the latest version of its multiplatform engine and development tools, adding a highly-optimized rendering pipeline for VR and AR devices, an easy to use multiplayer networking solution and over 70 smaller improvements, with a focus on 2D and animation features. More on Unity Technologies' website.

Austrian filmmaker Conrad Tambour has made available online the graduation short he created at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, which deals with the subject of aging in a humorous way. The film was created mainly with Maya, V-Ray and Nuke. Watch it on Vimeo.

Babioles is a creation of French director Mathieu Auvray. The video series presents CG-animated children toys that find themselves lost in an adult world. The series aims to point out the great distortions produced by grown ups' way of life through the naive eyes of the little characters. The 23 episodes of Babioles were produced with Blender and will be made available online starting June 15th. You can watch the trailer and pilot episode on the series' YouTube channel.

Luxion has made available a new video showing some feature highlights of the upcoming version of its interactive rendering and animation software. Watch the video on YouTube. (more...)

Chaos Group has released a new beta of its V-Ray renderer for The Foundry's Nuke, adding updates to materials, render elements, and the V-Ray Environment Fog node. V-Ray for Nuke is currently in public beta testing. More on Chaos Group's website.

Seattle-based artist Dave Stewart has been experimenting with some interesting fluid dynamics simulations using Houdini. Watch the videos on Vimeo: elastic viscous liquid with bubbles, multi-colored elastic viscous liquid with bubbles v2.