Over the past few years, there’s been a lot of discussion about the convergence of video games and visual effects. Both mediums tend to rely on the same – or similar – tools these days to generate cg ...

OctopusEffects, #Blender Create a puddle in the desert anime style. The puddle has a buoy and small moving waves. Most of it is done in the Shader Editor. In this tutorial i use Emission, Gradient, ...

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Making an animated movie is a tedious process because of all the intense computing power and rendering required. “An expert animator can do about 3 seconds of animation in a week,” Dreamworks CEO ...

Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine 4, is showing off its brand-new real-time rendering technology, and with it the future of game and animation development. The company is set to unleash two ...

Complex visual effects and computer graphics can mean extensive (and expensive) computing needs, and to address this, Amazon Web Services is launching a new cloud rendering service. AWS Deadline Cloud ...

Research is key when it comes to developing new technologies, as well as understanding what’s required to advance further. It’s a reciprocal process where new technologies create new products, ...