Eye candy: Chaos Group's 2012 V-Ray showreels
Leading renderer gets not one demo reel but (count 'em) five. And they're all teeth-grindingly gorgeous.
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
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Eye candy: Next Limit's RealFlow Siggraph 2012 reel
All the gorgeous advertising work you might expect - and some shots from Aardman that you might not.
Monday, August 20th, 2012
Eye candy: V-Ray IRL
See Hollywood VFX stars swap GI for guns in this mini heist movie created for V-Ray's tenth birthday.
Monday, August 13th, 2012
We can do previs from an airplane over the Arctic!
Gradient Effects' Sandbox tech lets users work on movie-res assets via an iPad, anywhere in the world.
Friday, August 10th, 2012
Eye candy: the first official Tears of Steel teaser
Trailer for the Blender movie once known as Project Mango features spacecraft, robots, glowing brains.
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
Eye candy: Ladybug
See Chilean studio Leyenda's calling card to the cinematics market, done in just seven weeks of part-time work.
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
Eye candy: Ambrosia
One man, $17k, 280 FX shots: how Chris Herrick created high-power visuals for this low-budget thriller.
Saturday, June 30th, 2012
Autodesk ships free pre-release trial of Smoke 2013
Try the radically retooled editing and effects tool for free for three months. Is it as good as everyone claims?
Thursday, June 14th, 2012
Eye candy: Allan McKay's new demo reel
See things on fire, things catching fire, and things about to catch fire in this showcase of the FX guru's work.
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
Eye candy: Autodesk's new post and VFX demo reel
Watch four and a half minutes of whizz-bang effects, from the last Harry Potter down to station idents.
Friday, April 20th, 2012
Get PD Pro Howler for $70
Buy a copy of the VFX-friendly digital paint package for half price and help fund its future development work.
Monday, April 16th, 2012
The making of the VFX of Wrath of the Titans
The setting may be mythological, but the movie's approach to previz and performance capture is entirely new.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
Eye candy: Fubar Redux
Updated: see the new 15-minute director's cut of Haz Dulull's Platoon-meets-Animal-Farm 'motion comic'.
Sunday, April 1st, 2012