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Financial problems of the owner of Mikros Animation and VFX Oscar-winners MPC and The Mill threaten thousands of artists' jobs worldwide.

Tuesday, February 25th, 2025

Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Wild Robot.

Thursday, December 26th, 2024

Check out the new features in the procedural city-generation software, including Boolean operations and two-point perspective correction.

Sunday, December 1st, 2024

New Flow Graph Engine API and Flow Animating in Context will help connect Autodesk's cloud platform to desktop apps like Maya.

Tuesday, October 15th, 2024

Create the showreel that lands you your next job with Disney and DreamWorks animator Boris Maras's 10 fundamental tips.

Wednesday, May 29th, 2024

Discover the practical realities of life as a 3D animator in the movie industry with The Gnomon Workshop's essential Maya tutorial.

Saturday, May 11th, 2024

Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Croods: A New Age.

Sunday, March 3rd, 2024

3D clothing design software creator Jaden Oh wins tech 'Oscar', along with the creators of open standards USD, OpenVDB and Alembic.

Monday, January 15th, 2024

New 'industry cloud' for media and entertainment will enter early access in January 2024. Read our FAQs on what we know about it so far.

Tuesday, November 14th, 2023

DNEG Animation's Ling Han reveals his expert tips for crafting a killer showreel, using examples from his own student reel.

Wednesday, September 20th, 2023

Ubiquitous tech for reading and writing images becomes the latest open-source project to be hosted by the visual effects industry body.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2023

Updated: Epic Games has ported the high-performance shot review tool to Windows as well as Linux.

Monday, July 31st, 2023

New features in the USD-native layout and look dev app include shader network transfer to Katana.

Monday, July 24th, 2023