Mark Walton reviews the recently released NVidia GTX 980 Ti graphics card and how it compares with the Titan X: "... Almost identical performance to the leading Titan X for less cash". More on Ars Technica.

Microsoft has officially announced that the next version of Windows will be available on July 29. Current owners of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 will have the option to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. More on Window's blog.

Chaos Group has released a new service pack for its renderer, which brings many new features and 3DS Max 2016 support. Changes include: (more...)

Creative Case has released a new commercial plugin for Maya designed for generating primitives along a curve (or two points). It allows to easily create ropes, branches, shoelaces, belts, low poly hair, etc. Watch a video and find out more on Gumroad.

Proteus VFX, the school headed by Alessandro Cangelosi and Emiliano Morciano, is offering its first on demand courses: "FumeFX in Production" and "Fluid dynamics with RealFlow / 3DS max". Videos are pre-recorded in English and the courses will last 6 months in total. Those who purchase a course will be able to see it HD and have access to support service from an instructor via email or live chat. (more...)

Germany-based The Captury, developers of markerless motion capture systems, have recently demoed at FMX how real-time markerless motion capture can be used to create immersive full-body VR environments without the need to wear funny outfits. Watch a teaser on The Captury's website.

Ukraine-based Postmodern studio has posted a video showing great VFX work they did for Sergey Mokritskiy's Battle for Sevastopol feature film. Watch the video on Vimeo.

HAL 9000 Animations has been experimenting with creating physics-based domino animations in Blender. His latest one features a 32x32 pyramid that contains 22,352 dominoes. Watch the videos on YouTube: Largest Domino Pyramid Blender Animation, Domino Blender Animation.