Animation, VFX, USD pipelines, LED volumes, real-time cinematography and performance capture.
Brunch Studio has posted breakdowns of the Valorant: Through the Cracks cinematic, which introduced the Summit map. They show the Maya and Houdini work and how the shots changed from concept sketch to final render.
80.lv14d ago2 min read
Vine FX has released a VFX breakdown for the National Geographic docudrama series Pompeii: Out of Time. It shows how the studio built the Vesuvius eruption and the city of Pompeii in 3D.
cgchannel.com20d ago2 min read
SideFX's latest major release introduces 3D Gaussian splatting tools alongside major updates to KineFX and Copernicus.
cgchannel.com20d ago3 min read
You don't need a head-mounted rig to start. Here's what Epic lists for real-time and offline capture, from iPhones to plain webcams.
dev.epicgames.com26d ago4 min read
A practical explainer on composition: how layers let departments work on the same shot, and how variant sets replace a lot of asset-swap tooling.
openusd.org28d ago4 min read
Autodesk's first update to Maya 2027 brings OTIO support, LookdevX texture projection for objects without UVs, and Bifrost 3.1.
cgchannel.com166d ago3 min read