UK physicist and artist Tom Beddard has updated his website with new fractal work. Check it out on Subblue.com.

Fabric Software announced that it's working with The Foundry and Maxon to integrate the Fabric Engine development framework with Modo and Cinema 4D. Tools developed with Fabric Software's platform for creating high-performance cross-platform tools for applications such as 3DS Max, Maya and Softimage, will now work with Modo, and in the future with Cinema 4D, too. (more...)

The developers of the open source image editing software have launched a new Kickstarter campaign to accelerate its development, this time focusing on making the software faster than Photoshop at handling big canvases and turning it into a quality 2D animation tool. There are also many other great workflow enhancements proposed for the software. Head over to Kickstarter for more.

Oslo-based Storm Studios have posted online their latest showreel. Watch it on Vimeo.

New short films created by students from US-based CalArts have been made available online. More on Filmnosis.

A nice simulation test by Seattle-based artist Dave Stewart, experimenting with getting 3 solvers to work together: Grains, FLIP and RBD interactions with wetness attribute transfer. Watch it on Vimeo.

Mark Jackson from Red9 studio is previewing Animation Re-Director, one of the new tools from his upcoming ProPack for Maya. The tool allows to redirect any animation by caching the data on an editable motion path. Watch a video on Vimeo.

Researchers at Disney have devised a method for stitching videos of a scene captured by different cameras and creating spatiotemporally stable panoramic video. The method allows for the generation of panoramic video in the order of tens to over a hundred megapixels. More on Disney Research's website.