Videos: see the new features in Maya 2015
Major update adds new FX tools, new skinning system, lots of smaller features. See them all in action here.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
Disney
Gnomon to host free Making Of Frozen talk on 20 March
Visit the school's Hollywood HQ to see eight of Disney's key CG staff discuss the Oscar-winning film.
Thursday, March 13th, 2014
Gnomon releases 200-minute lighting masterclass
Disney veteran Frederic Durand's Light and Shadow shows that good lighting is about more than just lights.
Monday, December 16th, 2013
See Disney's snow simulation system recreated in Blender
Molecular add-on recreates Frozen's physics demo surprisingly accurately - albeit at much lower resolution.
Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
Eye candy: Disney's snow simulation system from Frozen
See strange things simulated with CG snow in this video of the tech behind the new animated feature.
Thursday, November 21st, 2013
Videos: see Pixologic's sessions from Siggraph 2013
Watch demos from leading ZBrush artists at Blizzard, Disney, Epic Games and Marvel Entertainment.
Friday, October 11th, 2013
Video: Disney research could let you 'touch' 3D renders
New tactile rendering system mimics the feel of a physical surface as you run your finger over a touchscreen.
Thursday, October 10th, 2013
Brother Bear director turns to Kickstarter for new movie
Back Aaron Blaise's latest project on Kickstarter, and you could feature in Art Story as an animated character.
Friday, July 12th, 2013
DAZ 3D ships DAZ Studio 4.6 Pro
Free figure-posing and animation tool gets OpenSubdiv and Ptex support, new subsurface shader.
Friday, May 17th, 2013
Gnomon announces Gnomon Workshop Live
Speakers at the event, held in LA from 27-28 April, range from Iain McCaig to Pixar's Mike Makarewicz.
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
Disney shuts LucasArts
Legendary games studio gets the axe just five months after Disney's $4.05 billion Lucasfilm buyout.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
Review: Oz the Great and Powerful
Sam Raimi's take on Oz is a visual spectacle, but it favors style over substance, argues Fernando Caire.
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Eye candy: Disney's Paperman VFX breakdown
Updated: See the whole of Disney's charming fake-2D short here, along with a detailed making-of video.
Thursday, January 31st, 2013