Eye candy: Auroras
Niles Heckman tells us how he made his labour-of-love FX short, rendered over three years on a single PC.
Monday, July 7th, 2014
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Eye candy: Miarmy's cool VFX crowds reel
See some amazing shots created in the Maya crowd-simulation system from studios all over the world.
Thursday, June 5th, 2014
Craft Animations releases Craft CameraFx
New MotionBuilder plugin lets users pilot realistic virtual camera moves with a mouse or Xbox controller.
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
Eye candy: The Foundry's 2014 showreel
Watch a kaleidoscopic three-minute burst of CG created using Foundry tools, from Gravity to Smaug.
Thursday, April 10th, 2014
The Foundry announces Nuke Studio
New 'super Nuke' will be a complete "VFX, editorial and finishing studio" including all the features of NukeX.
Tuesday, April 8th, 2014
Find CG jobs from your phone with MGODI
Updated, now on Android: Free app from End User Event organisers matches artists to likely studios.
Friday, April 4th, 2014
See an R&D preview of V-Ray RT for MotionBuilder
See real-time path tracing in the MotionBuilder viewport on the set of Kevin Margo's short, Grounded.
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
Eye candy: the making of God of War 'From Ashes'
Allan McKay's neat 30-minute video explains how the ash effects from the Super Bowl spot were created.
Monday, March 10th, 2014
Eye candy: Framestore's Gravity VFX show and tell
Nice new breakdown video gives a glimpse into the movie's CG environments and simulation work.
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
Eye candy: Kometh
Discover the alien life pulsating at the heart of a comet in Erik Ferguson's unnerving Houdini short.
Thursday, February 13th, 2014
VFX Screens for iOS speeds up screen replacement
Neat little free app displays tracking markers for touch and swipe events on your iPad to speed up VFX work.
Monday, February 10th, 2014
Eye candy: Decepticon Truck Crawl
Watch Digital Domain animator Kiel Figgins' ace Transformers homage, then check out the VFX breakdowns.
Monday, February 10th, 2014
Eye candy: Whiskytree's ultra-detailed Elysium VFX
Watch a breakdown showing the CG space station's "trillions of surfaces" - all created on prosumer hardware.
Friday, February 7th, 2014