NanoTile Textures is a ZBrush plugin by Joseph Drust for creating tiling textures using NanoMeshes in ZBrush. The plugin can output BPR, Preview, Albedo, AO, Normal, Bump, Polygroup ID, and Height maps. More on the ZBrushCentral.

Spanish artist Carlos Parmentier has posted online his latest reel with some great fluid dynamics and FX work. Watch it on Vimeo.

Cebas, makers of ThinkingParticles for 3DS Max, have posted an interview with Russian VFX artist, Sergey Movchan. Sergey discusses the workflow he uses in his work and provides some great insights into how and why he likes using ThinkingParticles. You can read the interview on the Cebas website. (Note: expect questions aimed at highlighting ThinkingParticles' capabilities)

RE:Vision Effects has released the latest versions of Reel Smart Motion Blur 5, and Twixtor 6, which now brings GPU acceleration for HitFilm, Nucoda, Natron and Autodesk’s compositing tools. For more details you can visit the RE:Vision website.

Sundays is a Sci-Fi, dystopian proof-of-concept short directed by Mischa Rozema and produced by Dutch studio PostPanic. Featuring plenty of CG work, the futuristic short deals with the moment when computer power will surpass human intelligence, and how the world will change due to it (spoiler: not for good). Part of the production was funded through Kickstarter, and the short is a first step towards a feature film. Watch the video on Vimeo.

Marmoset LLC has posted a reel showing the work of various artists who are using its physically-based real-time rendering toolkit. Watch it on Vimeo.

NVidia has disclosed more information on v2015 of its GPU-accelerated renderer. New features include: Material Definition Language (MDL) open standard that allows materials to be used across applications, support for measured materials using the X-Rite Appearance exchange Format (AxF), ability to use instanced geometry and optimizations for NVidia's latest graphics hardware. (more...)

Competition among renderer developers keeps getting heated. Pixar has released today a free version of its renderer for non-commercial use. The free version is fully featured, without watermark, time limits or other limitations, other than it can only be used for non-commercial purposes. (more...)