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Portal Art of VFX brings an interview with Charlie Noble, where he described his part of work at this movie. Charlie unveiled how they prepared for some sequences and how they must to do before and during creating sequences e.g. creating Hydra factory and hangar or factory destruction. He also revealed some interesting facts such as before starting they visited aircraft museums or that they hired a couple of tanks for the day to provide motion studies for our Landkreuser. But it is not all of course. 

GenArts has released a new version of its industry-standard collection of VFX plug-ins, Sapphire. This version sets a new standard for creating breakthrough visual effects by integrating dynamic controls, thousands of creative options, and unmatched quality into a single, comprehensive visual effects solution. New features in version 6 include a customisable lens flare editor, a new visual presets browser, and access to more presets via the FX Central service. 

Carlos Pardo from FANATICFLUIDS talks about how he used RealFlow Standard Emitters and the RealFlow Render Kit V2 for Meshing in his last work. When he wants to complete his project, he must to face a problem of morphing water. It means how to change water from a droplet, into letters, finishing in the shape of a bottle and generating all the different high resolution meshes of the project from just ONE particle simulation. Solving this he commented by following words: