Academy Software Foundation adopts MaterialX
Movie industry standards body to oversee future development of the open format for rich material data.
Friday, July 16th, 2021
Lucasfilm
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
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
Master the art of vehicle design for film and TV
Lucasfilm concept artist Matthew Savage's unique Gnomon tutorial reveals how to sci-fi vehicles as physical props.
Saturday, June 24th, 2017
Master digital painting for landscape illustration
Explore key Photoshop and Painter skills in Gnomon's free masterclass this Thursday. Watch free online.
Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
VIEW Conference announces 2016 speaker line-up
Top European CG festival to feature keynotes from the directors of Zootopia, Trolls and Sausage Party.
Tuesday, September 20th, 2016
Download DJV Imaging's free flipbook viewer
Get Lucasfilm engineer Darby Johnston's robust image sequence viewer and batch-processing tools.
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
The best new software from Siggraph 2013
Updated: We round up the main new products from the show - including five more we missed first time round.
Tuesday, August 6th, 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
Disney to buy Lucasfilm, make new Star Wars movies
George Lucas stays on as 'creative consultant'; ILM and LucasArts also caught up in the $4.05 billion deal.
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012