Discover the 15 greatest effects shots of all time
As picked by a panel of leading VFX sups contacted by Empire magazine. Will you agree with their choices?
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
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The best new software from Siggraph 2013
Updated: We round up the main new products from the show - including five more we missed first time round.
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
Eye candy: Platige creates tiny talking tiger as energy drink ad
Cult Polish studio's new spot recasts Life of Pi as not-so-safe sex advice for twentysomething party animals.
Monday, August 5th, 2013
Videos: destruction FX with Particle Flow in 3ds Max 2014
Autodesk's Louis Marcoux posts an hour of free training on particle-based destruction and fluid effects.
Monday, August 5th, 2013
Eye candy: Atomic Fiction's new showreel
See nice breakdowns of shots from Star Trek Into Darkness from the rising stars of the VFX world.
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
Massive Software unveils Massive 6.0, Massive for Maya
Crowd-simulation system to get new UI, support for Bullet physics - and a new dedicated Maya edition.
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
VFX breakdown: Moo Studios' new Blue Moon spot
VFX supervisor Sebastiano D'Aprile explains how 'Brewmaster's Inspiration' blends stop-motion and painterly CG.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
Gnomon releases new DVD on sculpting better characters
Sculpting a Stylized Character shows how Weta's David Meng creates a practical sculpt of an orang-utan.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
Trojan Horse was a Unicorn festival announces speakers
ILM, Pixar and Blizzard artists to speak at world's best-named CG event in Portugal this September.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
moma for Mari: render Mari scenes in Modo's renderer
Jacobo Barreiro updates his two-way bridge between Modo and Maya to support The Foundry's paint package.
Monday, July 29th, 2013
Anzovin Studio releases The Setup Machine for Games
New version of the Maya auto-rigging plugin now supports game engines including Unreal Engine and Unity.
Monday, July 29th, 2013
Nvidia announces Quadro K6000 GPU
'Fastest GPU ever built' offers 12GB of graphics RAM, and five times the compute power of the Quadro 6000.
Thursday, July 25th, 2013
e-on software releases Vue 11.5 PLE
Learning edition of the environment tool gives access the full feature set of Vue 11.5 Infinite and xStream.
Thursday, July 25th, 2013