Autodesk releases Open RV
The open-source edition of RV is out. See how it differs from the commercial edition of the Academy Award-winning shot review tool.
Thursday, January 19th, 2023
Academy Award
Autodesk open-sources RV
Updated: only "core components" of the award-winning image viewer and shot playback tool will be open-sourced, not the full product.
Thursday, August 11th, 2022
Weta Digital unveils WetaM
New cloud-based service will let VFX artists use 100 of Weta's Academy Award-winning in-house tools inside a custom build of Maya.
Thursday, June 17th, 2021
Mental Ray: a retrospective
To mark the news that Nvidia is to discontinue the renderer, we look back over the highs and lows of nearly 30 years of Mental Ray.
Monday, November 20th, 2017
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
HP unveils DreamColor Z32x 31.5-inch UHD display
Biggest DreamColor ever offers 3,840 x 2,160 display resolution and 60Hz maxmimum refresh rate.
Wednesday, April 15th, 2015
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
Blender Institute to oversee full-length animated movie
Updated: global network of studios taking part includes Oscar-winning production house Autour de Minuit.
Thursday, January 30th, 2014
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
VFX artists stage protests at Academy Awards
400 march on ceremony itself, more protest online over snub to Rhythm & Hues' Oscar acceptance speech.
Monday, February 25th, 2013
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
See Moonbot Studios' Oscar-nominated short in full, and watch making-of videos of its creation.
Friday, January 27th, 2012
Eye candy: Defective Detective
A bungling sleuth starts to see red in Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis's killer Student Oscar-winning short.
Thursday, July 21st, 2011