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Paul Richards has posted some of the totally amazing concept work he did for Darksiders on his site.

The Blender Foundation have announced the release of their newest training DVD ‘Chaos and Evolutions’ -  Digital Painting Course Using Free/Open Source Software by Durian/Sintel concept artist David Revoy.

Ryan Clark has released a new CrazyBump Beta!

Version 1.2 Beta 2 contains added support for 8-threaded processors.

Torque 2D iPhone 1.3 has been released!

The iPhone game engine from GarageGames includes a number of bug fixes and multiple new features over previous releases.

Knoll 3D Flare is now available to download for FREE over at Red Giant Software

The add-on for Knoll Light Factory 2.5 includes many new features including :-

• Edge flare-ups
• Color linking
• Z-depth intensity
• Full 3D obscuration

Racer445 has created an interesting tutorial on creating metal textures in Photoshop without photo manipulation for those cool chaps over at CGTuts+

Ramen is a free node based video compositor, It works in full HDR color precision.Ramen is being developed and tested on Linux (ubuntu 8.10) and Mac OSX.

Adobe Systems on Friday introduced a new Photoshop app for iPhone users that lets them edit photos from both their phone and their online library on Photoshop.com.

The app is free of charge and offers tools such as cropping, image rotation, color controls, and simple one-touch filter effects that can change the look and feel of shots all at once. It also features undo and redo controls so that if users make a mistake, or want to revert back to the original, it takes just a few taps.

a free real time post production tool which allows not only change colors of objects but their influence in the whole scene.

Run by Rob Richards this is just a fantastic site for anyone looking for reference and pure inspiration. With such a majority focus on characters when it comes to art it's great to see an appreciation for the worlds these characters inhabit.