The 10 best visual effects breakdowns of 2016
Watch our pick of the best movie, TV and commercials breakdown videos created in the past year.
Wednesday, January 4th, 2017
R&D
Pixar releases RenderMan 21 Non-Commercial
Free version of Pixar's production renderer now available for learning, personal use, plugin development.
Wednesday, November 16th, 2016
See MotionBuilder mocap data streamed to a HoloLens
Video: Jasper Brekelmans' amazing tech demo displays mocap data on a live 3D avatar in augmented reality.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2016
Eye candy: Square Enix's Witch DirectX 12 tech demo
See four Titan X GPUs push 63 million polygons around in real time to create some gorgeous visuals.
Friday, May 1st, 2015
VFX breakdowns of the month: February 2015
Check out the month's best tech demos, including some stunning work from The Mill and Blur Studio.
Saturday, February 28th, 2015
Check out 2015's hottest Blender R&D projects
Blender Foundation chairman Ton Roosendaal previews the software's upcoming features: from stereo 3D to Alembic and Ptex support.
Monday, January 5th, 2015
Watch Allan McKay's videos on building custom FX tools
VFX supervisor's three-part training series includes five hours of video, plus all the MAX files and scripts.
Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
Cool tech demo: create clouds with Elementacular
Updated and now shipping: Turn any model into an editable, relightable cloud with this neat Maya plugin.
Wednesday, August 20th, 2014
Shotgun announces first ever Pipeline Awards
New awards for tools devs to recognise unsung heroes who make VFX movies and games possible.
Thursday, May 15th, 2014
Cool technology: the AIR automatic rigging system
Jesus Rodriguez Nieto's work-in-progress tech aims to automate skinning, secondary deformation.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2013
Video: new R&D work in Autodesk's Project Geppetto
Watch characters interacting automatically with chairs and stairs in 3ds Max's crowd-animation system.
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
Our pick of Siggraph 2013's emerging technologies
New research on show ranges from weird Kinect tricks to using your bathwater as a touchscreen interface.
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
Cool tech: Disney Research's DuctTake compositor
See the system merge two takes of a shot with no more artist input than a few quick scribbles on the footage.
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013