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visual effects

Watch things fall down, blow up and wash away in the latest showcase of the cutting edge of simulation.

Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

New versions for The Foundry's core tools increase the renderer's penetration into the VFX market.

Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

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

See great student work from the US CG school, including a rather smug vampire and a bit of cross-dressing.

Friday, July 4th, 2014

An on-demand cloud render service aimed at VFX facilities that lets you use all your own tools and plugins.

Thursday, June 26th, 2014

Six Gnomon graduates won prizes at this year's CG Student Awards. See all of their winning work here.

Friday, June 6th, 2014

See some amazing shots created in the Maya crowd-simulation system from studios all over the world.

Thursday, June 5th, 2014

Much-anticipated GPU renderer offers unusual materials-agnostic workflow, competitive €295 price.

Wednesday, May 28th, 2014

New awards for tools devs to recognise unsung heroes who make VFX movies and games possible.

Thursday, May 15th, 2014

Watch a kaleidoscopic three-minute burst of CG created using Foundry tools, from Gravity to Smaug.

Thursday, April 10th, 2014

Check out the Kickstarter campaign for ILM matte painter Jorik Dozy's atmospheric short.

Wednesday, April 9th, 2014

See real-time path tracing in the MotionBuilder viewport on the set of Kevin Margo's short, Grounded.

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014