Academy Award

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

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