After releasing a few teaser, Mikros Image / M6 have made available the official trailer for the film adaptation of René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's The Mansions of the Gods comic book. The effort is being headed by Louis Clichy and Alexandre Astier and looks quite true to the original books. Watch it on YouTube. (French)

(Updated) A number of tests created with X-Particles v3 can be found on Vimeo.
Insydium has disclosed some of the features they're incorporating into the upcoming version of the particle system plugin for Cinema 4D, most notably the addition of a FLIP solver. Changes include: (more...)

New features in the latest version of OC3 Entertainment's software for creating lip-sync facial animation from audio files include: (more...)

Ronen Bekerman has posted an interview with Trond Greve Andersen and Mats Andersen, founders of Norwegian Architectural Visualisation studio MIR. You can watch the full interview on ronenbekerman.com as well as a write up of the first day of the State of Art Academy Day 5 event at which the interview was filmed.

Mintviz reviews the AMD FirePro W8100 graphics card and its 3D rendering performance (using V-Ray RT): " ... a worthy professional workstation GPU from AMD". More on Mintviz.

Triple Squid Software Design has posted information on the new features brought by the recent update of MoI, its affordable NURBS modeler that features an intuitive UI and can output clean polygon meshes. Moment of Inspiration is being developed by Michael Gibson, who was the original developer of the Rhino NURBS modeler. New features in MoI v3 include: (more...)

Fabric Software has updated its platform for building high-performance graphics applications. Changes include: (more...)

Defective Studios is developing an immersive virtual reality world creation tool inspired by Bruce Branit's short film "World Builder". VRMT provides a set of props and tools with which one or more people can collaborate on the creation of environments. Brush sets can be made on and imported from other 3D applications. VRMT can also be used for game level design, its results can be loaded into other software such as Unity. More on Defective Studios' site.