Open-source VFX pipeline builder Prism 2.0 is now available
Promising tool lets you set up a USD-based VFX pipeline 'out of the box'. Works with Blender, Maya, Houdini, Nuke, UE5 and ZBrush.
Friday, November 3rd, 2023
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VFX breakdown | The Wheel of Time Season 2 | Framestore
Check out Framestore's VFX breakdown of some of its 520 VFX shots from Season 2 of the Amazon Prime Video fantasy series.
Tuesday, October 24th, 2023
Epic Games to start charging to use Unreal Engine for VFX
UE5 to become a 'licensable piece of software like Maya and Photoshop' for non-games work like VFX, animation and visualization.
Thursday, October 5th, 2023
Epic Games lays off 16% of its employees, sells Bandcamp
But the firm 'continues to invest' in Unreal Engine, MetaHuman, Megascans, Twinmotion and RealityCapture, despite 830 job cuts.
Friday, September 29th, 2023
FAQs: Unity's new pricing and the Unity Runtime Fee
Latest planned 2024 pricing for the game engine relaxes the terms of the controversial new Unity Runtime Fee. Read our FAQs about the changes.
Monday, September 25th, 2023
Free 3D scanning app Kiri Engine now supports Lidar
Users with LIdar-equipped iOS devices can also now process photogrammetry scans locally, without uploading data to the cloud.
Friday, September 15th, 2023
Unreal Engine 5.3: five key features for CG artists
Now out of preview: read our pick of the new features in UE5, from rendering OpenVDB files to the new Skeletal and Panel Cloth Editors.
Wednesday, September 6th, 2023
Check out free browser-based AI mocap tool Rokoko Vision
Successor to Rokoko Video lets users extract full-body animation from video captured on two cameras or smartphones. Still free for single-camera capture.
Monday, September 4th, 2023
Kiri Engine now supports Neural Surface Reconstruction
Update to Android and iOS scanning app adds support for AI-based reconstruction of 3D objects.
Wednesday, August 9th, 2023
Wonder Studio is available
Updated: hotly tipped AI tool for automatically replacing live actors with 3D characters can now export scenes in USD format.
Tuesday, July 11th, 2023
Otoy joins the Academy Software Foundation
OctaneRender developer joins VFX and movie industry body alongside CoreWeave and Bolt Graphics.
Friday, July 7th, 2023
Chaos releases Vantage 2.0
Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer aims to make the software 'as powerful for VFX as it is for architectural visualization'.
Thursday, June 29th, 2023
Epic Games releases MetaHuman Animator
Hotly tipped toolset can transfer facial motion from iPhone footage to a MetaHuman in Unreal Engine.
Thursday, June 15th, 2023