Nvidia announces Omniverse open beta
USD-based 'open collaboration' platform for CG work will become free to individual users this fall.
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Industrial Light & Magic
Create subtle performances for your animated characters
Master nuance in animation with ILM lead animator Ted Lister's new tutorials for Gnomon Workshop.
Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
VFX veteran Jody Madden becomes new Foundry CEO
Leading visual effects software firm's new boss previously worked at ILM, Lucasfilm, Digital Domain.
Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
Whip your reel into shape at demo reel boot camp
Get free tips on creating a winning reel from recruiters at ILM, The Mill, Infinity Ward and DreamWorks at Gnomon next week.
Thursday, February 28th, 2019
See the year's best ZBrush sculpts at The Art of ZBrush IV
Free show at Hollywood's Gnomon Gallery showcases new art created with Pixologic's sculpting software.
Friday, September 28th, 2018
Eye candy: IDV's epic 2018 SpeedTree VFX showreel
Watch innocent CG trees meet their ends at the hands of superheroes, spacecraft crashes and King Kong.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2018
Nuke and Houdini developers win technical Oscars
Four Scientific and Technology Awards in total, including an Oscar statuette for SideFX's Mark Elendt.
Friday, January 5th, 2018
Eye candy: Foundry's 2017 showreel
See the best work created with Nuke and Mari, from Rogue One and Doctor Strange to ads and VR.
Friday, December 1st, 2017
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
Gnomon releases Texturing and Shading for Production
Follow ILM artist Jesse Flores's eight-hour video tutorial in Maya, Mari, V-Ray and Substance Painter.
Tuesday, September 12th, 2017
Eye candy: Chaos Group's 2017 V-Ray Showreel
See amazing new work created using the renderer, from Rogue One to kaleidoscopic commercials.
Tuesday, August 15th, 2017
Eye candy: Pixar's 2017 RenderMan demo reel
See the best new work rendered in RenderMan: from blockbusters like Ghost in the Shell to indie shorts.
Tuesday, August 8th, 2017
Lucasfilm and ILM open-source MaterialX
New open exchange standard for material data aims to do for look dev what Alembic did for geometry.
Thursday, July 13th, 2017