Esri releases CityEngine 2025.0
Check out the new features in the procedural city generation software, including the new Street Designer for creating complex road setups.
Friday, June 27th, 2025
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DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 2.15
Check out the new features in the open-source release of DreamWorks Animation's renderer. used on movies like The Wild Robot.
Sunday, June 15th, 2025
Technicolor Group begins to shut down operations
Financial problems of the owner of Mikros Animation and VFX Oscar-winners MPC and The Mill threaten thousands of artists' jobs worldwide.
Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 1.7
Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Wild Robot.
Thursday, December 26th, 2024
Esri releases CityEngine 2024.1
Check out the new features in the procedural city-generation software, including Boolean operations and two-point perspective correction.
Sunday, December 1st, 2024
Autodesk announces updates to Flow at Autodesk University
New Flow Graph Engine API and Flow Animating in Context will help connect Autodesk's cloud platform to desktop apps like Maya.
Tuesday, October 15th, 2024
10 essential tips for crafting a successful demo reel
Create the showreel that lands you your next job with Disney and DreamWorks animator Boris Maras's 10 fundamental tips.
Wednesday, May 29th, 2024
Tutorial: Animating for Feature Films
Discover the practical realities of life as a 3D animator in the movie industry with The Gnomon Workshop's essential Maya tutorial.
Saturday, May 11th, 2024
DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 1.5
Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Croods: A New Age.
Sunday, March 3rd, 2024
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
Autodesk to launch Flow in 2024
New 'industry cloud' for media and entertainment will enter early access in January 2024. Read our FAQs on what we know about it so far.
Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
10 insider tips for crafting a winning animation demo reel
DNEG Animation's Ling Han reveals his expert tips for crafting a killer showreel, using examples from his own student reel.
Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
ASWF adopts OpenImageIO
Ubiquitous tech for reading and writing images becomes the latest open-source project to be hosted by the visual effects industry body.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2023