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Autodesk announced that its Media & Entertainment (M&E) support and learning content for its 2014 product line is now live and available under Creative Commons (CC) licensing; that equates to 20,000 pages of documentation, 70 videos and 140 downloadable 3D asset files.

Two-time Emmy award recipient, Toon Boom Animation Inc. announced the release of Toon Boom Animate 3 and Toon Boom Animate Pro 3. Dedicated to creating frame-by-frame and cut-out rigging animation, these new versions offer the most comprehensive set of features to professional animators, all in one software.

Eyeon Software announced shipping of EPP, eyeon’s latest solution to drive production efficiencies and productivity. EPP is an open source initiative that finetunes the production workflow in postproduction studios. EPP is available as a binary installer but also in source form as python scripts hosted at GitHub. Since EPP is released with an unrestrictive NewBSD license, everyone is invited to adapt, change, and contribute to this project.

Chaos Group will preview the upcoming major release of V-Ray 3.0, at the 40th SIGGRAPH forum, July 23-25. Artist-driven features and improvements such as single-click Progressive Rendering, optimized Brute Force sampling, and faster hair rendering, are just a small part of what’s in store.

Blackmagic Design announced the launch of Splice, an online community that features stories and projects by some of the world's best editors, DOPs and colorists.