An interview has been posted with ILM's Chief Creative Officer John Knoll, recorded at the Paris Digital Images Summit.  John Knoll has worked on some of the best known films and franchises including Star Wars, Willow, Abyss, Star Trek, Mission Impossible, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ready Player One, and many many more. He is also known as the original developer of Photoshop along with his brother Thomas Knoll. Watch the interview on YouTube. 

Jesse Pitela now has 50 detailed tutorials including free project files for Phoenix FD and 3DS Max. Get them on Gumroad. 

We're pleased to publish our latest article in which F10 Studio's Nick Homer asks the thorny question: “what the hell is it that Architectural Visualisers actually do?”

By definition, rendering is an automated process by a computer program, so this must be an automated art form? Maybe, do we just hit render?

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Sergey Solokhin has released a couple of webinar recordings explaining how to use his MoPlugs tools. These are a set of open source toolsfor MotionBuilder. To find out more about the tools visit GitHub for OpenMoBu and MoPlugs and watch the tutorials on YouTube: Video 1 | Video 2.

Chaos Group has announced the launch of Chaos Cloud, its new online rendering service available with a single click from 3ds Max, Maya, Rhino, Cinema 4D, Revit, Modo, Houdini [in beta] and SketchUp. (more...)

Weta Digital has released a number of videos showcasing its work on Mortal Engines, a film in which enormous cities are mechanised, mobilised and go to war. Watch them below. (more...)

Quixel has released a new tutorial demonstrating how to use Mixer's upcoming procedural mask stack to create a cushion material. Watch it on YouTube.

A new recording from SIGGRAPH has been released in which Walt Disney Animation Studio's Technical Director Ernest Petti,  Head of Environments Larry Wu,  and Head of Characters & Technical Animation David Komorowski discuss how the team visualised the internet for Wreck It Ralph 2. Watch it on YouTube.