The guys at Jupiter Jazz have recently released AtomKraft. This is a  plugin for Nuke which lets you render directly with 3delight inside your compositing tree. This lets you the use a single application for lighting and compositing your shots- using a similar workflow to The Foundry’s Katana. AtomKraft is currently under closed beta – get in contact with them if you are interested. There are more details in the AtomKraft FAQ.

Also of interest is darktable. This is an open source photographic light table application, for organising and enhancing your photographs.Thanks to Moritz for the links.

Finally if you are in the area go and check out the Sci-Fi Airshow. It’s great to see that ILM vfx supervisor Bill George has been able to keep these machines flying!