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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

Latest News

Get 350+ free assets for building a fantasy town in Unreal Engine

Get 3D artist George Shachnev's Flying Fantasy Town asset pack of 3D buildings and trees free for two weeks on Fab. For commercial use.

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025

Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for Blender

Long-awaited new edition of V-Ray integrates the production renderer natively in Blender. Check out its features, its limitations, and its price.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

Download three free assets from terrain kitbash library Terra xL

Get three 3D scanned mountains from the neat new asset library for kitbashing environments for VFX and concept art. Commercial use.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

Check out unusual open-source vector design tool Graphite

Promising free app combines the ease of layer-based workflows with the power of a node graph. More bitmap editing tools planned, too.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

Open-source tool Infinigen Indoors generates procedural 3D interiors

Updated: free Blender-based tool generates 3D interiors, from rooms to entire houses. Check out its new Infinigen-Sim toolset.

Monday, June 30th, 2025

How North of Now created holo doubles for Kaytranada's 'Witchy'

Discover how the video for the Grammy-nominated track was created with KeenTools' FaceBuilder and FaceTracker for Nuke.

Monday, June 30th, 2025

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