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2016 marks the 25th anniversary of the legendary TVPaint animation technology! For the occasion, TVPaint Developpement produced a short movie Journey Through Creativity. The piece was single-handedly designed, animated, and directed by Tévy Dubray, a twenty-two-year-old French-Cambodian animator. Her animation is paired with the music of Louis Warynski (aka Chapelier Fou), an electronic musician from TVPaint Developpement's hometown of Metz, France. As a gift to the users, the majority of the short's files created in TVPaint Animation 11 will be made available this summer on TVPaint Developpement's website.

Journey through Creativity - TVPaint 25th Anniversary from TVPaint on Vimeo.

Genus Production Matte Box is designed to be flexible enough to use with lenses from small DSLR-sized primes to cinema zooms. Complete system with top flag, side flags optional. It contains Production Matte Box Rayshade, Top Flag, 2 x Filter Trays (rear tray 360 degrees fully rotatable), 15mm Rod to Matte Box Mount Bracket (Centre to Centre 60mm), 114mm Do-Nut, 82mm Interface, and a set of 82mm Step-Up Rings comprising of (52mm to 82mm; 58mm to 82mm; 62mm to 82mm; 67mm to 82mm; 72mm to 82mm; 77mm to 82mm; 82mm to 82mm.

Recent security issues related to Apple’s QuickTime 7 on Windows have been of concern to users of Adobe's products on that platform. Adobe announced it has been able to accelerate work that was already in progress to support native reading of ProRes. This new capability is fully licensed and certified by Apple, and barring any unforeseen issues during pre-release, these fixes will be included into an update to the relevant products in Creative Cloud shortly.

Additionally, Adobe is planning on adding native export support to .mov wrapped files of DNxHD and DNxHR. This support will augment the currently supported import of DNxHD and DNxHR in .mov and .mxf and native export in .mxf. Similarly, in an effort to allow as many legacy files to be supported as possible Adobe Creative Cloud applications will also be supporting the reading of AAC Audio and PNG Compressed frames and the reading/writing of Animation frames. When these fixes are released most Windows users will have a seamless workflow for virtually all popular codecs even with QuickTime removed from the computer; however, Adobe anticipates that some older, less used legacy formats may not be directly supported and therefore no longer be accessible. Users may need to find a method of transcoding their legacy media.

Free 3.4 updates for V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max and Maya customers introduce CPU and GPU-accelerated denoising designed to automatically remove noise and cut render times by up to 50%. In addition, V-Ray 3.4 for 3ds Max is now compatible with Autodesk 3ds Max 2017, and the V-Ray 3.4 for Maya is compatible with Autodesk Maya 2016 Extension 2.