Adobe MAX will unveil the latest innovations in Creative Cloud and give exclusive insight into the creative process of industry legends.

We all know that a good sysadmin/engineer is very hard to find. At Escape Technology we’ve been lucky enough to employ industry engineers who have lived and breathed VFX and  post production for many years. However, it’s incredibly difficult to find people coming out of university with the right knowledge for this diverse and challenging job.

Great news for the UK screen industry with the BFI’s Screen Business report revealing it generated £7.9bn in 2016, contributing £2bn tax revenue to the economy.

Escape Technology has partnered with EditShare to offer their award-winning storage solutions and innovative media management software to our customers.

It’s Showreel Share Day and to celebrate we’re offering incredible discount on some pretty epic editing gear. These prices are only available today - so if you miss them, they’re gone.

Access:VFX will be touring the UK throughout October to raise awareness of the visual effects industry as a career path for young people.

Leading German magazine, Digital Production, features a comprehensive article speaking with Escape Technology’s Fabio Ticca about a rental model for workstations and hardware.

We live in a world almost entirely dependent on technology. A world that, at the best of times, is unpredictable. So it’s important to make sure that you have a robust disaster recovery plan in place.

Spilt Milk Studios is a multi-award winning video game developer that’s renowned for ambitious and innovative ideas. They’re behind titles including the Rambo-inspired Tango Fiesta and, more recently, Lazarus  - an immersive roguelike MMO set in the depths of space.

The birth of modern day video games started in 1972 when a computer scientist working for Atari created Pong. His name was Allan Alcorn and thanks to his invention the face of the industry changed forever.

This was my first year attending the much talked about SIGGRAPH conference and it was with a sense of excitement and anticipation that I finalised my preparations for departure.

SIGGRAPH 2018 offered up some intriguing insight into the evolution of GPU rendering. We got impressive announcements in the form of new technology, and saw the first signs of a universal shift to GPU and how much it’s changing the world of 3D.

The human imagination is a powerful thing. It has built thriving metropolises, constructed awe inspiring automation, and designed groundbreaking inventions to improve our quality of life. It’s even created a wealth of entertainment, which gives us some much needed escapism and tells the stories that we as a species crave, taking us to distant planets to discover new life or giving us powers that defy our reality.

3D artists and animators using Houdini can now try out Chaos Group’s most powerful CPU & GPU renderer, V-Ray.

Since their inception in the early 1970s, video games have evolved from interactions with simple geometric shapes to full blown cinematic experiences that wow the senses.

Cinema 4D Release 20 is the latest update for Maxon’s 3D animation solution, featuring node-based materials, MoGraph fields, and ProRender enhancements.

Since 1999 Pixologic has been providing artists with tools for sculpting, painting, and texturing 3D models. 

Escape Technology sponsored Autodesk University last month, where our CTO Lee Danskin gave an insightful talk on cloud workflows and the future of the cloud in visual effects.

For nearly three decades, Photoshop has been the go-to tool for working with digital images. From basic contrast enhancements all the way through to compositing complete worlds we’ve been using Adobe’s most well-known package in all sorts of industries. 

Most wired network connections are 1 gigabit per second (1Gb/sec or just 1G) using a Cat5e or Cat6(e) cable. In real-world use this allows data transfer of 90-100 megabytes per second (MB/sec). There are many faster ways to connect workstations or storage, but they tend to come with a corresponding increase in price. But when should you use >1Gb networking? And what’s available?