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Don't miss out on your chance to win a free V-Ray license at our upcoming event at our Santa Monica studio on Thursday May 17th. Join us as we host an evening with Director Andy Hall from a52 and Lon Grohs from Chaos Group. Andy will be showing us some cool, award-winning commercials he recently directed for the Red Cross. They look like they were shot stop-motion, but amazingly, they're entirely CG. He'll show us some breakdowns and give us all the behind-the-scenes details, including how he used Chaos Group's V-ray software to create the spots. Then, Lon will tell us about the recent upgrades to V-Ray and how you can utilize it for your own projects. He'll also be giving away a free V-ray license to one lucky winner!

Are you ready for this? Christopher Nolan's final Installment in his beloved Batman Trilogy is almost out and here is the final trailer. Looks like our buddies at Double Negative are at it again with some amazing VFX work (check out that bridge collapse!). The Dark Knight Rises hits a theater near you on July 20th 

Finally after 10+ years of development, many false starts, and a million and one rumors, the long awaited Blizzard title Diablo III is going to be released to the public.  Since the "official" announcement, almost 4 years ago, fans of the Diablo series have drooled over whatever content they could get their hands on and now, the wait is over! 

I recently went to see John Carter from Mars and after all of the negativity associated with the film I was pleasantly surprised.

This is an amazing tool by Cary Huang depicting the scale of the universe. And if this weren't amazing enough, here is a second version!

Five questions finding out more about our Twitter followers, how and why they got started, and what they feel about the industry asked by Social Media Manager @TobyJOYdigital

We are very keen to find out what sort of video tutorials you like and which in particular you would like us to develop. So, in order to get as much feedback as possible, we have devised a very simple 5 questions survey. I takes less than a minute to complete and if you fill it in, you stand a chance to win 12-months access to our Maya Essentials online course or 12-months access to our ZBrush for 3D Artist course. Not bad for less than a minute's work!

Here are some shots of our newly installed VFX tag cloud! This is something we've been thinking about creating for a while and now we have the wall real estate I thought it was time. Our Operations Director Susan O'Neal and I sat down and came up with as many VFX terms as our brains would allow, then our designer friend and gentleman Mick Hodgson from PhD worked his magic and turned it into reality.

As award season rolls in, it’s a good time to look back over the most notable projects of 2011. To save you from trawling the net looking for the best and worst of last year’s CG offerings, check out Stash's Best of 2011 list. Separated into categories such as Best Cinema and Television Commercials, Best Music Videos, Best Broadcast and Title Design and many more, it’s a great way to see some extremely inspiring work from the top studios across the world.

Happy Friday!