New Damon Albarn video is basically a ZBrush tutorial
Aitor Throup's ZSpheres-and-all Everyday Robots promo celebrates the tools of the 3D artist's trade.
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
Eye Candy
Watch the nominees for the 2014 VES Awards
A lot of them, at least. See all 15 nominees for short-form work in their entirety here, along with making-ofs.
Thursday, January 16th, 2014
Eye candy: The Foundry in Design
See famous folk like Neville Page and Scott Robertson wax lyrical about the use of Modo to create concept art.
Friday, January 10th, 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
Eye candy: Blur Studio's 'A Twist of Fate' FX breakdown
FX artist Dan Chamberlin's video deconstructs the fire effects from the League of Legends trailer's best shot.
Monday, January 6th, 2014
Eye candy: Alfred Imageworks' Counter-Strike Online 2 trailer
See some rather nice simulations in the Korean VFX house's teaser for the online version of Valve's shooter.
Thursday, January 2nd, 2014
Eye candy: Pixologic's ZBrush movie reel
Watch a five-minute compilation of ZBrush's greatest hits of the past decade, from Terminator 3 to Gravity.
Tuesday, December 31st, 2013
Eye candy: Main Road|Post's Stalingrad VFX reel
Check out eight minutes of beautiful Houdini effects breakdowns from the epic Russian war movie.
Tuesday, December 17th, 2013
Video: water effects in Unreal Engine 4
See how Epic Games set up the fluid and particle effects for its UE4 Infiltrator tech demo.
Monday, December 9th, 2013
Eye candy: MPC's 2014 film reel
From Man of Steel to Prometheus, MPC's latest VFX reel is four minutes of otherworldly delight.
Thursday, December 5th, 2013
Eye candy: Chaos Group's V-Ray feature films showreel
Get a taste of the movies rendered in V-Ray, including Star Trek: Into Darkness, Ted and Ghost Rider 2.
Friday, November 29th, 2013
Eye candy: Caminandes: Gran Dillama
A hapless llama has a fur-raising time in the Blender Institute's latest, Chuck Jones-inspired, open movie.
Friday, November 22nd, 2013
Eye candy: Disney's snow simulation system from Frozen
See strange things simulated with CG snow in this video of the tech behind the new animated feature.
Thursday, November 21st, 2013