ASWF adopts OpenAssetIO and OpenFX
VFX industry body to oversee development of open standards for plugins and asset management.
Thursday, August 4th, 2022
Pixar
Eye candy: Pixar's 2022 RenderMan showreel
See the best new animations, visual effects movies and TV series created using the veteran renderer.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2022
Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio, Nuke Indie 13.2
Compositing and editorial tools get support for NDI, OpenTimelineIO and new machine learning features.
Thursday, April 14th, 2022
10 subtle mistakes to avoid in character animation
Pixar animator Eddy Okba reveals the subtle errors that even experienced artists often miss.
Tuesday, March 1st, 2022
Watch VIEW Conference 2021 for free
See the international VFX and animation conference free online, or in person in Turin from 17-22 October 2021.
Sunday, October 10th, 2021
Check out neat free 2D animation package VPaint
Open-source tool creates vector animations that mimic 3D forms. Help Kickstart its successor apps.
Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
Get the free RenderMan for Substance Painter 24.1 plugin
Open source plugin now converts Substances to RenderMan's new Lama materials, for use in Blender, Houdini or Maya.
Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
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
Download the free edition of RenderMan 24
Get the latest Non-Commercial edition of Pixar's renderer for personal use and plugin creation.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
Pixar ships RenderMan for Blender
New RenderMan integration places the open-source 3D app on the same footing as Maya or Houdini.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
Pixar releases RenderMan 24 with RenderMan XPU
Long-awaited update includes new hybrid CPU/GPU rendering mode. See all the new features here.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
Nvidia announces pricing and new plugins for Omniverse
Studios will pay to use the hotly tipped open collaboration system, but individual artists can use it free.
Monday, April 12th, 2021
Tech focus: Nuke's AIR machine learning framework
Neat toolset lets VFX artists train their own neural networks to automate repetive tasks like roto.
Thursday, March 18th, 2021