Eye candy: Departures
Check out the Kickstarter campaign for ILM matte painter Jorik Dozy's atmospheric short.
Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
Industrial Light & Magic
AnatomyTools.com launches five-day ZBrush course
Taught by ILM veterans, Mastering Human Anatomy in ZBrush offers in-depth guide to the human form.
Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
Eye candy: the Transformers Super Bowl spot
Optimus Prime and Dinobots beat off Captain America and Spidey in our pick of yesterday's movie trailers.
Monday, February 3rd, 2014
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
Eye candy: ILM's VFX breakdown for Pacific Rim
New making-of video lifts the lid on big environments, big simulations - and even bigger CG creatures.
Thursday, January 9th, 2014
10 questions for... ace mech creator Vitaly Bulgarov
The Blizzard and ILM star faces our barrage of questions about his 3D concept design workflow.
Wednesday, September 11th, 2013
10 questions for... ILM's Ryan Calloway
The creature artist and veteran of Rango and Pacific Rim runs our gauntlet of tech and career questions.
Thursday, September 5th, 2013
The Lone Ranger: the best VFX you never noticed?
Forget the plot: the backdrops are out of this world. ILM explains how it created the film's CG environments.
Monday, August 19th, 2013
Meet the speakers for Gnomon Workshop Live
See 3D and concept art veterans of Star Trek, Pacific Rim and Diablo III in Hollywood from 21-22 September.
Thursday, July 4th, 2013
Videos: new advances in markerless facial capture
See two impressive new tech demos: one from ILM and one from Egypt's Snappers Systems.
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
OpenEXR 2.0 released
Update to the open-source HDR file format should finally make deep compositing available in most tools.
Thursday, April 11th, 2013
Disney shuts LucasArts
Legendary games studio gets the axe just five months after Disney's $4.05 billion Lucasfilm buyout.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
Q&A: Rango and Hulk texture painter Justin Holt
The industry veteran provides his character-painting tips, and reveals what's hot in Mari 2.0.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013