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Director Marysia Makowska Lands 1st U.S. Representation with SixTwentySix
Makowska has created work for top brands including Disney, Unilever, McDonald’s and more
Unity Wētā Tools unveils Deep Compositing and Eddy 3.0
Unity VFX division's new Nuke add-ons will make Weta's in-house tools available to artists off-the-shelf.
Marmoset ships Toolbag 4.06
Now shipping: update to real-time rendering toolkit extends OpenUSD support, adds support for rendering EXR sequences.
Nvidia releases 2023.1 updates to Omniverse apps
Check out the new features in USD Composer 2023.1, USD Presenter 2023.1 and Audio2Face 2023.1.
Tutorial: Creating a Monolithic City in Unreal Engine 5
Create a large-scale city for VFX or cinematics work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.
AWS releases Deadline 10.3
Free renderfarm manager now supports Unreal Engine 5, including the Movie Render Queue for visual effects, animation and visualisation.
El Taco Truck | Jaume Osman
Check out Plasticity’s new Blender bridge
Popular lightweight NURBS modeller gets add-on live-linking it to the open-source 3D software.
Enter Captain Zaptic
Flow Creative launches a hero for the operations platform
Choosing Virtual Production: The Creative Possibilities of XR Filmmaking
The second in a series of articles on virtual production by ARwall co-founder, Rene Amador.
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.
QuiltiX: a new open-source MaterialX material editor
Free node-based tool lets users author MaterialX materials for use in renderers like Arnold and Karma.
ASWF adopts OpenImageIO
Ubiquitous tech for reading and writing images becomes the latest open-source project to be hosted by the visual effects industry body.
Pixar and partners launch Alliance for OpenUSD
New industry body aims to make USD an international standard for more than just visual effects work.
Hot Dog and Cheese Collide in Oscar Mayer’s Stop Motion Spot
Anthony Farquhar-Smith directs the origin story campaign from Johannes Leonardo.
The Madhouse | BMK | Feral Child Animation
Check out xStudio, DNEG’s open-source playback tool
Updated: Epic Games has ported the high-performance shot review tool to Windows as well as Linux.
Tutorial: Designing Environments for Games
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to use Blender's Grease Pencil toolset to sketch concepts in 3D.
Design Quarter – Phase 2 | Meraas x d3 | Kingdom of Something
Unity ships Ziva Real-Time 2.0
New AI-based toolset generates real-time 3D characters that move with the accuracy of VFX rigs. Works with Maya, Unity, Unreal.