The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2018

Watch the best tech breakdown videos of the year, as chosen by CG Channel's Facebook followers.

Saturday, January 12th, 2019

Videos: see Siggraph Asia 2018's best technical papers

Watch the best tech demos from the show - from advances in VR to new ways to melt your CG dragon.

Tuesday, November 20th, 2018

Pixar ships free edition of RenderMan 22

Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco.

Monday, September 10th, 2018

Nvidia unveils Quadro RTX 5000, 6000 and 8000 GPUs

'World's first ray tracing GPUs' based on Nvidia's new Turing architecture will ship later this year.

Wednesday, August 15th, 2018

Videos: the best of Siggraph 2018's technical papers

See our pick of the show's hottest research - from AI-driven animation to amazing simulation techniques.

Thursday, June 14th, 2018

Black Friday and winter 2017 deals for CG artists

Updated with discounts valid until the New Year, including Affinity Photo and Marmoset Toolbag.

Thursday, November 23rd, 2017

Review: Dell Canvas 27-inch pen display

Fernando Caire assesses how Dell's would-be Cintiq killer stacks up against Wacom's hardware.

Monday, October 16th, 2017

Watch the best CG shorts from Siggraph 2017

Watch highlights of 15 of the year's best animated and VFX shorts, with accompanying tech breakdowns.

Wednesday, July 26th, 2017

Videos: the best of Siggraph 2017's technical papers

See our pick of the show's hottest research - from cutting-edge fluid sims to ways to model tentacles.

Monday, June 19th, 2017

Wacom unveils MobileStudio Pro 13 and 16 pen displays

Powerful touch-enabled Windows 10 tablets have 4K displays, offer 8,192 levels of pressure sensitivity.

Thursday, October 6th, 2016

Point Render recreates Dürer and Doré in Houdini

Now shipping: Chimney VFX artist Jan Białek's Houdini plugin renders 3D models in striking classical graphic styles.

Saturday, July 9th, 2016

Videos: the best of Siggraph 2016’s technical papers

Watch our pick of the show's hottest research - from new ways to 3D print Moomins to Schrödinger's Smoke.

Monday, May 30th, 2016

Skuid may let non-animators do Disney-style animation

Cool new Autodesk Research tech uses readymade 'activators' to apply Disney's 12 principles of animation to any sketch.

Tuesday, May 24th, 2016