Sony has released new versions of its audio editing and processing tools. Check out the list of new features on Sony's website.

Toronto-based Spin VFX have delivered over 200 shots for the latest season of HBO's fantasy TV series. Watch the reel on Spin VFX's site.

A nice spy genre short film created by Yoav Shtibelman, Taylor Clutter and Kendra Phillips at Ringling College of Art and Design. Watch it on Vimeo.

HDRMaps.com is offering more than 25 free full spherical HDRI maps (at 5000x2500 resolution). All HDRI maps, textures and timelapses at the site are taken by Polish photographer Grzegorz Wronkowski. Also of note, Grzegorz has added new commercial HDRI sky domes taken with a Nikon D800, which have a high dynamic range and allow you to achieve sharp shadows without extra CG lights. More on HDRMaps.com.

Autodesk has released an interview with Adam Watkins regarding the work Pixomondo did for Star Trek Into Darkness. Adam discusses the heavy use of 3DS Max in the work that Pixomondo did, and shows a lot of behind the scenes footage of how they created various sequences. You can view the direct link to the inteview via the Autodesk Area website.

Platige Image has released a great trailer for the game Witcher 3:Wild Hunter which was directed by Tomek Bagiński. You can view the trailer on the Platige Image Vimeo channel.

It's Art magazine has posted an interview with Iloura FX artist Jonathan Freisler. In the interview, Jonathan talks about his work using 3DS Max on projects like After Earth, TED, and Ghost Rider 2. You can read the full interview over at the It's Art website.

A video has been posted showing the new network mode of Iray running on NVidia's Nitro, a bank of 260 GPUs. Watch it on YouTube. (Note: the first section shows the demo running on two NVidia K6000 GPUs, the second section shows the demo running on Nitro.)