The extraordinary making of David Levy's PLUG
Updated: The Prometheus concept artist's VFX short turns Terminator's story on its head. Watch it here.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
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Download DJV Imaging's free flipbook viewer
Get Lucasfilm engineer Darby Johnston's robust image sequence viewer and batch-processing tools.
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
Eye candy: Maxon's new Cinema 4D showreels
Get a quick two-minute blast of motion graphics, then calm down with some nice architectural imagery.
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014
Cool tech demo: create clouds with Elementacular
Updated and now shipping: Turn any model into an editable, relightable cloud with this neat Maya plugin.
Wednesday, August 20th, 2014
Eye candy: Next Limit's RealFlow 2014 showreel
Watch drips, drizzles and splashes created with the fluid simulator, plus a couple of larger VFX shots.
Tuesday, August 19th, 2014
Eye candy: the V-Ray Film & VFX showreel 2014
Watch three minutes of gorgeous cinematics, TV and movie FX work, from Batman to Captain America.
Wednesday, August 13th, 2014
Eye candy: Side Effects' Houdini 2014 demo reel
Watch things fall down, blow up and wash away in the latest showcase of the cutting edge of simulation.
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
Chaos Group unveils V-Ray for Modo, Nuke and Katana
New versions for The Foundry's core tools increase the renderer's penetration into the VFX market.
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
Watch the Siggraph 2014 animation festival winners
Not all of them can be shown online in full yet, but we've got extended clips and making-ofs for the others.
Saturday, July 19th, 2014
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
Eye candy: Gnomon's new Best of Term awards
See great student work from the US CG school, including a rather smug vampire and a bit of cross-dressing.
Friday, July 4th, 2014
Five technologies to watch: Seekscale
An on-demand cloud render service aimed at VFX facilities that lets you use all your own tools and plugins.
Thursday, June 26th, 2014
Eye candy: the world's best student CG art
Six Gnomon graduates won prizes at this year's CG Student Awards. See all of their winning work here.
Friday, June 6th, 2014