38th Ghent film festival opening credits
A nice, particle-generous video that mixes low-poly with a painterly aesthetic, created at Gentbrugge-based Grid VFX for the opening credits of the film festival in the Belgian city of Ghent. Watch it on Vimeo.

?Welcome to the Anthropocene? Earth animation
An interesting CG visualization of human civilization on Earth, created by Canada-based Globaïa for the Planet Under Pressure conference. The video starts at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, showing the evolving planetary impact of humanity. Watch it on Vimeo and find out more at IGBP’s website.

Three Point Landing
Strike a pose. A funny video showing an overused device in filmmaking, including many CG films. Watch it on YouTube.

Blender Hair Dynamics
A great reference video showing different settings for hair dynamics. The .blend files are available for download as well. [read the full article on blendernation.com]

Hemingway & Gellhorn - VFX
You might be scratching your head and saying to yourself, How did they do that -- how did they embed Clive Owen & Nicole Kidman in...

The Amazing Spiderman - 4 Min Preview
The film is directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt and Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves based on the Marvel Comi...

Making of Wolf Brigade
Artist will take you through the steps in the creation of Wolf Brigade illustration. Strangely there is no concept or sketches for...

Modernist Day and Night Scene
If you are looking to learn realistic and complex vray lighting. This scene comes with two different scene setup Daylight & Nightl...

High Quality HDRI & Textures
HDRI Hub is your source for high quality hdri maps and textures. Primarily offer commercial textures, but also have a free texture...

GoZ for Softimage
GoZ for Softimage is a One Click Solution for 3d mesh exchange between ZBrush and Softimage using GoZ file format.

Autodesk 123D turns photos in 3D model
Automatically turn your photos into amazing 3D models with Autodesk 123D Catch. Capture the world around you in a whole new way!

Men In Black 3 - Production Video
In Men in Black 3, Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back... in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 1...

Model: Remote Drone Spider
By Lived. Lived writes: The RDS patrols the city streets looking for any last semblance of resistance, while the invaders sit quietly in office cubicles on the other side of the world. This file... [read the full article on blendernation.com]

Blender at FMX 2012
Thomas Dinges and Andy Goralczyk represented Blender at the German FMX conference this year. Thomas reports. Thomas writes: I was at the FMX conference, the 17th Conference on Animation, Effects,... [read the full article on blendernation.com]

Beauty Box Video 2.0
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: - Faster Rendering – a complete rewrite of the skin-smoothing algorithm means Beauty Box is up to 300% faster on ATI and NVidia cards [...]...

The V-Ray Anniversary Challenge is on!
The V-Ray Anniversary Challenge is on! V-Ray s 10th Anniversary celebrations start with a Challenge to all V-Ray users! The Chaos Group and CGSociety invite you to create an image to tell the story of a decisive moment. Imagine the split second when everything changes. It could be an instant from history that altered everything on Earth. Or a pivotal...

RayFire 1.58 is out
New features in Mir Vadim’s destruction kit plugin for Max include: - Support for 3DS Max 2013 - Support for NVidia PhysX plugin 2.85 - Support for Included Entropy Bullet plugin (Beta) - Clusterizing for All fragments - Tesselation for Voronoi fragments - Dead Objects feature for Sleeping objects with ability to Revive by Velocity [...]

Endless Reference ? animation reference videos
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.

FMX 2012 virtual production sessions available online
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.

Hugo Boss Sailing
By Andreas Nicolas Fischer. Andreas writes: Here is video I art-directed for Schokolade Filmproduktion, commissioned by Hugo Boss. All 3d was made with Blender including fluids and the ocean. The... [read the full article on blendernation.com]

Model: Iron Man
By Bruno Oliveira. Bruno writes: I made this iron man model some while ago, has been an year since i can remembered, but, i decide to put it in the blender swap today! Hope you like it, cause I did... [read the full article on blendernation.com]

Air Time video game trailer
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.