Digital Anarchy released Beauty Box Video 2.0, a new version of their plugin for compositing and editing applications designed for smoothing out skin and removing blemishes from footage. New features include: [more...]

New features in Mir Vadim’s destruction kit plugin for Max include: [more...]

Endless Reference have made available animation reference videos for male and female characters on their YouTube channel. Additional videos are available on their website. More on YouTube and EndlessReference.com.

Autodesk is hosting a number of videos from presentation talks recorded recently at the FMX 2012 event, which focus on virtual production in filmmaking. More at Autodesk’s Area.

Check out the latest work from Israel-based Studio Aiko, a trailer showing the environments they created for Sidekick’s Air Time, a controller-free 3D platformer video game. Watch the trailer on Vimeo.

NVidia today announced the VGX platform, which enables IT departments to deliver a virtualized desktop with the graphics and GPU computing performance of a PC to users on any connected device, such as a laptop, tablet or smartphone (regardless of its operating system). VGX enables up to 100 users to be served from a single server powered by one VGX board. According to NVidia, VGX reduces such issues as latency, sluggish interaction and limited application support. More at NVidia.

Australia-based Robot VFX has posted a trailer for their short film that deals with a fish metamorphosis theme. Watch it on Vimeo.

More at the Brazil renderer’s forums.

CGriver is offering discounts of up to 35% on Evermotion collections and lower discounts on plugins and other software. More at CGriver. Also of note, 3DEssentials are offering a 60% discount on their Ant Stitcher and Ant Traffic Simulator scripts for today (the discount will be reduced to 40% and 20% in the next two days). More at 3DEssentials.

Jean-Marc Emy takes you through the process of his competition winning image entitled ‘Metabolic City’. He discusses a variety of topics in detail that range from gathering inspiration images, composition and painting light in your scene. Read the article on Ronen Bekerman’s website.

Project Photofly, Autodesk’s software for creating 3D models from photographs, has been renamed to “123D Catch”. An Ipad version is available on the Apple Itunes store, and a new online version is also available that allows you to upload your images directly in your web browser. More at 123D Catch’s website and forum.

After finishing working on FX heavy film “Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance”, FX artist Jordan Walsh has just posted his new reel. It consists of work mainly done using 3DS Max, V-Ray and FumeFX. Watch it on YouTube.