See Disney's Moana island data set ray traced on a single AMD GPU
Multi-billion-primitive scene was rendered on a Radeon Pro W7900 via a fork of the pbrt renderer using AMD's HIP RT 2.2 ray tracing library.
Tuesday, February 6th, 2024
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Eye candy: SideFX's 2023 Houdini Film & TV Reel
See the best motion graphics and VFX created in Houdini, then follow our links to technical breakdowns.
Thursday, August 3rd, 2023
5 expert tips to bring appeal to your facial animation
Disney animator Chatrasal Singh reveals his tips to improve the facial poses of your 3D characters.
Monday, April 24th, 2023
RenderMan 25 to feature the AI denoiser used on Lightyear
Next big update to the renderer to feature Pixar's AI-trained denoiser on its release later on this year.
Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
Get Disney's new USD version of Moana's Motunui Island
Download the new USD version of the legendary production data set, optimised to render in RenderMan.
Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
Watch VIEW Conference 2021 for free
See the international VFX and animation conference free online, or in person in Turin from 17-22 October 2021.
Sunday, October 10th, 2021
Creators of Pixar and Disney's hair tech win Academy Awards
Other 2020 Sci-Tech awards go to Shotgun and ftrack Studio and Intel's Embree ray tracing library.
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R23
Major update to Cinema 4D adds new character animation tools, better UV editing, and integrates the $399 Magic Bullet Looks suite.
Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
Eye candy: SideFX's 2020 Houdini Film & TV Reel
See the best new VFX work done in Houdini, plus breakdown videos of how the effects were created.
Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
Eye candy: Adobe's new Substance in Film showreel
See the best VFX work done with Substance Painter and Designer, plus tech breakdowns of key films.
Thursday, June 18th, 2020
Blender 2.80 ships
Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Autodesk unveils Maya 2019.2 and Bifrost for Maya
Big update introduces new visual programming system for physics simulations, with new fire, smoke and snow solvers.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Allegorithmic ships Substance Painter 2018.2
3D painting tool adds subsurface scattering, viewport gizmos for fill layers, Alembic and glTF import.
Friday, August 3rd, 2018