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 ...

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 ...

We already rate Pixar's RenderMan as the best rendering software for animation. Used in the animation giant's own movies, but free for non-commercial use, it offers state of the art rendering tech and ...

What’s the big deal with real-time rendering? Sure, you can shorten production time by cutting out long waits for rendering, but there’s a whole lot more to it than that. The caliber of rendering from ...

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, ...

All the big film studios primarily use Linux for animation and visual effects. Perhaps no commercial Linux installation is larger than DreamWorks Animation, with more than 1,000 Linux desktops and ...

DreamWorks' award-winning trilogy 'How to Train Your Dragon' made advancements with every episode, most recently its rendering software MoonRay, which made the Hidden World glow. By Carolyn Giardina ...