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Academy Award

Substance 3D pioneer's new venture after leaving Adobe is a real-time digital puppeteering firm creating gaming and animation content.

Wednesday, May 7th, 2025

Allegorithmic founder pays tribute to Substance 3D staff and artists after announcing decision to 'close this chapter of my career and life'.

Monday, April 28th, 2025

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

The open-source edition of RV is out. See how it differs from the commercial edition of the Academy Award-winning shot review tool.

Thursday, January 19th, 2023

Updated: only "core components" of the award-winning image viewer and shot playback tool will be open-sourced, not the full product.

Thursday, August 11th, 2022

New cloud-based service will let VFX artists use 100 of Weta's Academy Award-winning in-house tools inside a custom build of Maya.

Thursday, June 17th, 2021

To mark the news that Nvidia is to discontinue the renderer, we look back over the highs and lows of nearly 30 years of Mental Ray.

Monday, November 20th, 2017

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

Friday, January 6th, 2017

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

Monday, January 11th, 2016

Biggest DreamColor ever offers 3,840 x 2,160 display resolution and 60Hz maxmimum refresh rate.

Wednesday, April 15th, 2015

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

Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

Updated: global network of studios taking part includes Oscar-winning production house Autour de Minuit.

Thursday, January 30th, 2014

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

Thursday, January 9th, 2014