Sweden-based Fido studio has posted a great reel with plenty of CG creatures. Watch it on Vimeo.

FX artist Igor Zanic has made available a page that offers various R&D videos and information on the new features brought by the latest version of Autodesk's fluid simulation software. More on Igor Zanic's website.

The Q solver is a plugin for RealFlow designed for accurate and natural preservation of sheets of fluid and the thickening of fluid edges through surface tension. It provides control over sheets, tendrils and edge-surface tension, and the stress it takes to collapse the sheets. Q allows to create clean sheets and great edges without millions of particles. Read the release notes and how to purchase the software on Vimeo.

Montpellier-based Isotropix has released v2.0 of its software that blends compositing, layout, animation and rendering functionality into a single application. The new version brings significant improvements such as fast volume rendering, OpenVDB 3.0 support, deep image output through OpenEXR 2.0, double sided vector displacements and a new AOV engine. A new set of texture nodes is also available for look dev artists as well as a file referencing engine designed to solve team work issues. (more...)

A fun short by Camille Roux, student at French school MOPA. Created using 3DS Max, V-Ray and AE. Watch it on Filmnosis.

The Foundry has made available video recordings of presentations given at its booth during the recent NAB show, including "What’s new in Nuke Studio, NukeX & Nuke 9", "Future tech preview AR, VR & Ftrack", etc. Watch them on The Foundry's Vimeo channel.

Brazilian artist Dalai Felinto has written a Blender addon that allows to use the the Blender viewport on VR devices. The addon is in pre-alpha stage. Watch a sample video on YouTube and find out more on GitHub.

VFX artist Toufik Mekbel has posted his latest demo reel showcasing some of the projects he has worked on recently. You can check out the video on his Vimeo channel.