Nvidia’s Titan RTX
Last summer at Siggraph, Nvidia made a huge splash by introducing its new line of RTX Turing architecture-based cards and its mothership,...
***This article originally appeared in the January ‘19 issue of Animation Magazine (No .286)***
You know it’s December when we begin to see a multitude...
Animation fans will remember The Fixies as the charming little creatures that live inside our machines, appliances and devices, and help repair them when...
Pixar co-founder and animation pioneer Ed Catmull is retiring from his post as President of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios after five decades...
One of the 63 animated shorts submitted for Oscar consideration this year, Coin Operated from Nicholas Arioli was recently profiled in Animation Magazine. The...
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Autodesk as ever has taken the opportunity of SIGGRAPH to highlight the next generation of its storytelling and collaboration...
Conductor Technologies launched its Conductor cloud rendering platform for VFX, VR and animation studios. The first enterprise-grade rendering service of its kind, Conductor is...
VFX crews set the ground rules for the firefights, weapons and supervillain antics for Warner Bros.’ most-recent DC Comics adaptation, Suicide Squad.
Suicide Squad from...
Here’s Why Hasbro Just Bought an Animation Studio
Fortune dishes the details on the potential opened up by the acquisition of Boulder Media announced yesterday,...
Toon Boom Animation has released Harmony 14, the latest iteration of its popular 2D solution. The new version boasts additional tools for artists and...
Pixar digs deep to make a septopus named Hank — arguably the studio’s most technically complicated character ever — a convincing foil in Andrew Stanton’s fish...
ILM uses movement, choreography to make the bear attack in The Revenant as realistic and harrowing as possible.
Industrial Light & Magic was instrumental in...
Side Effects Software and Pixar have announced RenderMan for Houdini (RfH), a production-quality plug-in that will serve as a workflow integration bridge between RenderMan...
Following its recent release, Iron Maiden's animated music video for “Speed of Light,” the heavy metal band’s first single in five years, has become...
Pixar will present unprecedented insights into the development of RenderMan’s advanced RIS technology at SIGGRAPH 2015 in Los Angeles this month, and to drive...
Pixar Animation Studios has released version 20 of its Oscar-winning RenderMan software, introducing innovative ways to more easily and quickly create cinematic quality imagery....
Pixar his released its Academy Award-winning RenderMan software to use for free for noncommercial use.
The program can be used for research, education, evaluation, plug-in...