QuadSpinner releases Helios SkyBuilder for Vue
Dax Pandhi's ambitious Vue add-on enables users to create ultra-detailed skies for visual effects work.
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
visual effects
Eye candy: Platige Image's Zero Hunger Challenge spots
Check out the stylish simulation and creature work in this brace of ads created for UN World Food Day.
Thursday, October 17th, 2013
Eye candy: The Desolation of Smaug trailer
Weta's environments look lovely, but dragons are to be heard and not seen in the latest teaser for The Hobbit.
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013
See the Creation Real-Time Renderer running in 3ds Max
Updated: See Fabric Engine's VFX renderer power a custom per-pixel camera projection tool inside Max.
Thursday, September 12th, 2013
The Lone Ranger: the best VFX you never noticed?
Forget the plot: the backdrops are out of this world. ILM explains how it created the film's CG environments.
Monday, August 19th, 2013
Discover the 15 greatest effects shots of all time
As picked by a panel of leading VFX sups contacted by Empire magazine. Will you agree with their choices?
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
Eye candy: Platige creates tiny talking tiger as energy drink ad
Cult Polish studio's new spot recasts Life of Pi as not-so-safe sex advice for twentysomething party animals.
Monday, August 5th, 2013
Eye candy: Atomic Fiction's new showreel
See nice breakdowns of shots from Star Trek Into Darkness from the rising stars of the VFX world.
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
Massive Software unveils Massive 6.0, Massive for Maya
Crowd-simulation system to get new UI, support for Bullet physics - and a new dedicated Maya edition.
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
Trojan Horse was a Unicorn festival announces speakers
ILM, Pixar and Blizzard artists to speak at world's best-named CG event in Portugal this September.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
Navié releases Effex 2.0 for Cinema 4D
Plugin expands into full 'modular VFX framework', including particles, fluids and volumetric modelling.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
Eye candy: the Houdini 2013 demo reel
Buckle up for three minutes of peerless fluid simulations, from Life of Pi to Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.
Sunday, July 21st, 2013
Side Effects announces Houdini Engine
API turns Houdini into "world’s most powerful plugin" for other DCC apps. Sign up to test the Maya and Unity plugins now.
Thursday, July 11th, 2013