How to recreate Gollum with four consumer camcorders
Watch Fabrice Visserot's amazing homebrew mocap set-up recreate a key scene from The Two Towers.
Thursday, August 29th, 2013
Arnold
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
Eye candy: the new Arnold demo reel
Latest client reel lifts the lid on the number of smaller studios using Solid Angle's speedy raytrace renderer.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
OpenEXR 2.0 released
Update to the open-source HDR file format should finally make deep compositing available in most tools.
Thursday, April 11th, 2013
Eye candy: the visual effects of Our Lady of Lourdes
VFX supervisor Peter Szewyczk explains how he created the hallucinatory FX on a laptop in the Arnold renderer.
Friday, March 8th, 2013
Eye candy: the new Arnold renderer showreel
Recent outings at Digic Pictures and Psyop prove that the raytrace renderer is not "just for big studios".
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
Golaem releases Golaem Crowd 2.2
Maya crowd-simulation tool adds support for Arnold renderer, new automatic texture-variation system.
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
Eye candy: Juan Gonzalez's Mandelbulb animation
See what the Arnold renderer can do even outside big VFX studios with this 250-million-particle 3D fractal.
Monday, January 7th, 2013
FXGear unveils FluX: a new node-based fluid simulator
Still pining for Naiad? This highly scalable, Alembic-supporting tool could be exactly what you need.
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
Peregrine Labs releases Yeti 1.1 for Maya
Promising new fur-and-feathers generation plugin adds support for the Arnold and V-Ray renderers.
Thursday, April 26th, 2012
fmx 2011: Tuesday's news
In the first of our reports from Europe's premier CG show, we move from the magic of ILM to the future of lighting pipelines.
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011