Unity acquires Weta Digital for $1.6 billion

Firm aims to put Weta's legendary in-house VFX tools 'into the hands of millions of artists' worldwide.

Wednesday, November 10th, 2021

ZBrush and Mudbox creators win technical Oscars

ILM and Weta tool developers and pioneers of deep compositing also win Sci-Tech Academy Awards.

Thursday, January 9th, 2014

Ziva VFX and OIDN creators win Sci-Tech Academy Awards

Soft tissue simulation and render denoising system win tech 'Oscars', due to be presented at a ceremony tonight. Check out the other winners.

Tuesday, April 29th, 2025

Marvelous Designer creator wins Sci-Tech Academy Award

3D clothing design software creator Jaden Oh wins tech 'Oscar', along with the creators of open standards USD, OpenVDB and Alembic.

Monday, January 15th, 2024

Creators of Pixar and Disney's hair tech win Academy Awards

Other 2020 Sci-Tech awards go to Shotgun and ftrack Studio and Intel's Embree ray tracing library.

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021

Boris FX acquires Silhouette

Compositing effects plugin and planar tracking developer buys Academy Award-winning rotoscoping and roto paint tool.

Monday, September 9th, 2019

V-Ray and Arnold creators win Sci-Tech Academy Awards

Pioneers of facial motion capture and digital cinematography also win technology world 'Oscars'.

Friday, January 6th, 2017

Mari and RV's creators win Sci-Tech Academy Awards

Other 'tech Oscars' go to in-house teams at Laika, ILM, DreamWorks, Rhythm & Hues and Imageworks.

Monday, January 11th, 2016

Bullet and Naiad creators win Academy Awards

This year's Sci-Tech 'Oscars' reward advances in destruction physics, voxel data and digital vegetation.

Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

Interview: Avatar mocap producer James Knight

The man who put the moves into James Cameron's masterpiece reveals how he brought planet Pandora to life.

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Facial capture pioneer, cineSync win tech Oscars

Research in GI and render-queue management also rewarded in this year's Academy Award line-up.

Monday, January 10th, 2011