With J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek: Into Darkness only a few months away from opening, the film’s distributors staged a Trek-themed quadrocopter light display as part of WWF’s Earth Hour over the weekend in London. Stunt? Sure, but a fun one – see the video here.

The GPU Technology Conference (GTC) advances GPU computing in computer graphics, games, mobile, and the cloud. For the vfx and production, this tech is has become an incredibly important part of the process and today we cover new announcements from the NVIDIA keynote.

A look at the innovative use of effects in some recent spots by Digital Domain, Important Looking Pirates, Poetica, Framestore, Alt.vfx and Realise Studio. Includes an EXCLUSIVE breakdown from DD for their Dead Space 3 game promo.

Houdini 12.5 is now available, the impressive new tools include an Ocean FX Wave tool, and a Cloud FX generator – part of a DreamWorks Animation & Side Effects Software collaboration!

Here’s how to RSVP to VFX Town Hall meetings happening in LA, the Bay Area, Austin and Vancouver on March 14th, plus details of the planned live broadcast.

Luxology announced a new version of their 3D package today, which contains new features, optimizations, a new Linux version, as well as an increase in price.