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star trek

A 'personal and practical field guide' for artists, Beauty in the Beast draws of Page's three decades of work on movies like Avatar and Cloverfield.

Sunday, April 13th, 2025

The creator of Star Trek's Phasers and Men in Black's De-Atomizer discusses the art of gun design.

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

Updated: new trailer shows the Enterprise in peril - and more of Benedict Cumberbatch's suavely sinister villain.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

Go where no viewer has gone before with the tantalising first trailer for Paramount's Star Trek sequel.

Thursday, December 6th, 2012

Beowulf's character setup guru reveals why good rigging is about people - not technical gimmicks.

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

See the key features in the game engine and real-time renderer, from better 3D water to Variable Rate Shading and Deferred+ rendering.

Friday, April 25th, 2025

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including nifty new Select Details options in the AI-based Object Selection tool.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Update to the renderer adds over 3,100 Chaos Scans materials to the Cosmos library, and improves DoF and volumetric effects.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Get JustB Studios' 1850s Post Office Environment pack of 3D assets for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace. For commercial use.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025