Eye candy: Square Enix's Witch DirectX 12 tech demo
See four Titan X GPUs push 63 million polygons around in real time to create some gorgeous visuals.
Friday, May 1st, 2015
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VFX breakdowns of the month: February 2015
Check out the month's best tech demos, including some stunning work from The Mill and Blur Studio.
Saturday, February 28th, 2015
VFX breakdowns of the month: January 2015
Check out the month's best tech demos, including Tippett Studio, Unit Image and RealtimeUK.
Saturday, January 31st, 2015
Eye candy: the V-Ray Film & VFX showreel 2014
Watch three minutes of gorgeous cinematics, TV and movie FX work, from Batman to Captain America.
Wednesday, August 13th, 2014
Watch the Siggraph 2014 animation festival winners
Not all of them can be shown online in full yet, but we've got extended clips and making-ofs for the others.
Saturday, July 19th, 2014
Substance tools to get Final Fantasy XV render tech
Updated: Silicon Studio's Yebis 2 middleware shipping in Substance Designer 4.3. See a cool demo video.
Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
Eye candy: the making of God of War 'From Ashes'
Allan McKay's neat 30-minute video explains how the ash effects from the Super Bowl spot were created.
Monday, March 10th, 2014
Watch the nominees for the 2014 VES Awards
A lot of them, at least. See all 15 nominees for short-form work in their entirety here, along with making-ofs.
Thursday, January 16th, 2014
Eye candy: Blur Studio's 'A Twist of Fate' FX breakdown
FX artist Dan Chamberlin's video deconstructs the fire effects from the League of Legends trailer's best shot.
Monday, January 6th, 2014
Eye candy: Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm cinematic
Watch characters from StarCraft beat the snot out of those from Diablo in the teaser for the upcoming "hero brawler".
Monday, November 11th, 2013
Eye candy: Platige Image's Ryse: Son of Rome cinematic
Teaser for Crytek's Xbox One title combines simulation with stylised art direction to strikingly grim effect.
Monday, October 21st, 2013
Eye candy: RealtimeUK's War Thunder 'Heroes' teaser
Russian aerial combat MMO gets unexpectedly great trailer courtesy of UK cinematics stars.
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013
Eye candy: the best game trailers from Gamescom
Relive the highlights of last week with our pick of the best cinematics released at the giant games show.
Monday, August 26th, 2013