Pixar luminaries Pat Hanrahan and Ed Catmull have been awarded the Turing award, one of the most prestigious honours in computing. Read the full story on TechCrunch.

Adobe has released a new demo reel of work created using Substance tools for the games industry. Watch it on YouTube. 

The GDC conference which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic is now streaming on Twitch. You can see the full schedule here.

Autodesk has released the first binary of its USD for Maya project to create a  Maya plugin as well as reusable libraries that provide translation and editing capabilities for Pixar Animation Studios Universal Scene Description. Find out more and download from GitHub.

Per Abrahamsen has announced on polycount that he will be releasing many new tools built up over a decade of modelling experience for 3DS Max under an open-source license. (more...)

Pixar has published an article Dexter Studio's invisible VFX on Parasite. Read it on the Renderman website. 

Glassbox has released Beehive, a new tool for collaborative, virtual scene syncing, editing and review that has been built to streamline the real-time exchange of data between cameras, DCC applications game engines. Find out more on Glassbox Technologies website. 

Cinesite has released a breakdown reel for its work on The Witcher. Watch it on Vimeo.