A tutorial by UK artist Andy Walsh on the making of his Apocalyptic City scene. More at CGArena.

ScriptAttack announced the release of BonyFace 3.0 Extended, the latest version of its commercial script for rigging and animating facial expressions. New features include: [more...]

It’s a pleasure to present readers with another quality review, VFX artist and particle wrangler Hristo Velev reviews the latest version of Thinkbox Software’s particle renderer and management toolkit: “… has become indispensable in the FX toolset”. Read the review.

Romanian artist Marius Silaghi has released TurboReverse, a plugin version of his Subdivision Reversion script that recreates the subdivision levels of an already subdivided mesh, maintaining existing UVs. New features include: [more...]

Scott Baumberger gives insight on how he created a detailed watercolor style rendering titled USC Village. Read the article on CGarchitect.

Austris Cingulis has released a thorough 15 hour tutorial covering the exterior visualisation of a domestic property. The tutorial starts with CAD drawings and covers modelling, using Batzal Roof Designer to create shingles, vegetation including scattering with Forest Pack and creating a birch tree with GrowFX, material creation, rendering and post-production using 3 lighting scenarios. Find out more at VisCorbel.

France-based Allegorithmic announced the release of the Smart Texturing Toolkit For Arch&Design, a selection of Substance tools and content for architects and designers. The bundle includes Bitmap2Material, MakeIt A Parquet, MakeIt A Brickwall and 11 specific Smart Tiles. More at Allegorithmic. (Note: MakeIt A Parquet is currently available as a free download)

Architools 3D has posted a sneak peek of their upcoming urban environment creation plugin that uses a parametric XML-based language for defining buildings’ styles. More at Architools 3D.

A personal tribute to the beautiful Spanish city of Segovia, by Argentine artists Juan José Aguiló and Sebastián Barbero, from PolyByPoly studio. Created with 3DS Max. Watch the video on Vimeo and find some making of materials at PolyByPoly.

Autodesk has made available a number of extras for the English releases of 3DS Max / Design 2013. These include: Allegorithmic Substance Bonus Pack (Designer and Player), ArchVision RPC plugin and Dashboard, and 30 day trials for all basic NPower plugins. More at Autodesk’s MaxStation blog.

George Mattos of Chipman Design Architecture and Shane Griffith of Autodesk give a one hour brief into how to get started with Iray for 3DS Max. Watch the video on YouTube.

Anselm von Seherr-Thoss has posted a video that gives a nice overview of the newly released FumeFX 3.0. It goes over Effectors, NSims, and Render Warps, and is definitely worth the watch if you want to get up to speed quickly. Watch it on Vimeo.