OpenSubdiv 3.0 coming (Alpha update)

What’s new and all the news about the open source OpenSubdiv project.

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NUKE 9, NUKEX and NUKE STUDIO Beta now available

The Foundry has made betas of NUKE 9 and NUKE STUDIO available to existing customers.

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It’s not rocket science – oh wait …

Confessions of a self confessed ‘Neutron Fan Boy’ – or how nuclear research of the 1940s is finding its way into the rendering of today.

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Style city: A Dame to Kill For

Behind the scenes of Prime Focus’ visual effects for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.

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the vfx show #188: Guardians of the Galaxy

Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and TyRuben Ellingson discuss the visual effects in this summer’s blockbuster Marvel Studios film, Guardians of the Galaxy.

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fxpodcast #281: Milking the best for Doctor Who

In this week’s fxpodcast we speak to Milk VFX about the effects work in the new series of Doctor Who.

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Into the Storm: a trio of tornadoes

How real reference served to inform the visual effects artists for three of the devastating tornado sequences in Into the Storm.

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SIGGRAPH 2014 – wrap-up

A final look at SIGGRAPH 2014 from Vancouver and what to expect in fxguide SIGGRAPH coverage coming soon.

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Congrats to the Creative Emmy winners

Congrats to all the winners at this Saturday’s Creative Emmy Awards!

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Sci-Tech Oscar 2015 Consideration list

The areas of interest for the Sci-Tech 2015 Oscars has been published.

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More from SIGGRAPH 2014

More from SIGGRAPH 2014 – Emerging Tech, the Pixar RenderMan User Group and parties with Image Engine and ILM.

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The VFX of Guardians of the Galaxy

How the VFX teams behind Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy made Rocket, Groot, huge environments, spaceship chases and an incredible final battle.

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News from SIGGRAPH: Shotgun & NVIDIA

Shotgun introduces an iPhone app and NVIDIA rounds out its Kepler product line at SIGGRAPH 2014.

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SIGGRAPH 2014 – day 2

How day 2 of SIGGRAPH 2014 shaped up with tech sessions and insights into the big film releases this year.

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SIGGRAPH 2014 – DigiPro and day 1

A look back at the opening sessions of DigiPro and SIGGRAPH 2014 from Vancouver.

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Foundry At Siggraph with V-Ray + Speed tests

We look at the news from The Foundry and Chaos Group with V-Ray – plus we leak some stats about NUKE 9.

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Big positive: Double Negative to adopt Clarisse

VFX powerhouse Double Negative is to adopt Isotropix’s lookdev, lighting and rendering tool Clarisse iFX.

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Beam rendering extended at SIGGRAPH 2014

We look at the Siggraph technical paper: Unifying Points, Beams, and Paths in Volumetric Light Transport Simulation

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