A great short about an epic fish catch by students from French school ESMA. Watch it on Filmnosis.

Archviz artist Peter Guthrie has created some wonderful full screen panoramas based on some of his renders. Head over to Peter Guthrie's blog to see them. (Note: they need to be watched in full screen to be really appreciated)

Check out the latest cinematic created by Platige Image, this time for Creative Mobile's racing game Nitro Nation. Directed by Damian Nenow (Paths of Hate). Watch it on Vimeo.

Otoy have released a new video demonstrating Octane 2.0's new motion blur features. The render was created using 3DS Max with the integrated plugin at a resolution of 1280 x 720, the render time varied between 4-5 mins per frame running on 4 Titans. See the video on YouTube.

3DArcShop have released a free collection of 50 chairs, sofas and day-beds in .max format with V-Ray compatible shaders. Get them from 3darcshop.com.

Adobe has announced the list of improvements and new features that will be included in the upcoming release of its Creative Cloud software. After Effects features include: Key Cleaner and Advanced Spill Suppressor effects, text templates created in After Effects editable in Premiere Pro, compositing options for each effect (including ability to confine the area affected by each effect with masks), HTML5 panels using CEP infrastructure, ProEXR v1.9, video preview on external monitor using Mercury Transmit, etc. Watch an AE new features video, read AE's complete list of new features and the CC software list of changes (PDF) on Adobe's site.

The list of speakers for the End User Event has been updated, with a number of new presenters including Corona Renderer developers Ondra Karlík and Adam Hotový. Also of note a new promotional video is up. More on EUE's website.

The App designed for matching artists with CG jobs is now available for Android-based devices. MGODI is being developed by Joep van der Steen and Artur Leão. It's free, lets you upload your portfolio, and companies and people can easily post jobs. More on MGODI's website.