The Blender Foundation presents the trailer of the 5th open movie project, Cosmos Laundromat, the pilot of what could become the first-ever free/open source animated feature film. Watch the trailer and find out more on Project Gooseberry's website.

Paris-based Unit Image have posted a great making of for a recent Michelin spot they produced. Watch it on Vimeo.

Allegorithmic has released a new version of its material creation software for authoring Substances, which brings a number of workflow improvements to its graph editor, including rectangle links, ability to create a node over a selected link, select parent nodes, node search from space bar menu, etc. Watch a new features video on YouTube and find out more on Allegorithmic's website.

A great experimental short by Xavier Chassaing and Thomas Vaquié, that uses CG to create an environmental choreography of light in a desert landscape. Created with Clarisse IFX (and a bit of Houdini). Watch it on Filmnosis.

New features in 8monkey Labs' physically-based realtime model viewer and presentation software include: Marmoset Viewer (export high quality presentations to an optimized web-renderable package file for easy hosting and embedding), support for material IDs, Unity tangent space, Substance 5 materials, PLY mesh format, Filmic tone mapping, tooltips, default scene and material systems, object locking, etc. Watch a new features video on Vimeo and find out more on Marmoset Toolbag’s website.

Vocanson-Prod has released a new collection of 125 textured 3D models on the theme of cocktails. The models are compatible with 3DS Max 2009+ and come with V-Ray materials. They're offered at a promotional price of 50 € until June 15. More on Vocanson-Prod's website.

New features in the open source framework for creating browser-based 3D visualizations, games and interactive presentations include: (since last reported) glow effect for luminous objects, dynamic cube-mapped reflections, support for Blender's non-linear animation playback settings, support for Blender's world background plus ability to mix a world texture with the background color, ability to change camera control mode during run-time, shape keys and morphing, Gamma Node for gamma-correct rendering, improved annotations, etc. More on Blend4Web’s website.

New features in 3Dflow's image-based modeling software include: (more...)