Autodesk has announced 25% off new subscription licenses when users trade in their perpetuals before the end of April.

Last night marked the 92nd Academy Awards. The success story of the evening was South Korean film ‘Parasite’, which made history by being the first non-English language film to win the award for Best Picture.

On Tuesday night, in a dimly lit room at Cafe 1001, we gave away a Wacom Cintiq 16”.

Autodesk have announced some important updates regarding subscriptions to their products.

Despite strong competition, it was Sam Mendes’ WWI film ‘1917’ that cleaned up at the BAFTAs last night.

From 1^st February 2020 Chaos Group will be increasing prices on their V-Ray and Phoenix range of products.

We’re proud to announce the launch of Escape Technology GmbH’s new website.

Golaem Crowd makes it easy to populate worlds with directable digital characters, whether it’s a handful or thousands… and now the latest release 7.2.1 is here.

Incredibly, another year has gone by in the blink of an eye and again I find myself thanking all of our customers, suppliers, and industry bodies for your support once more.

Eagerly awaited since the Sneak Peak and Launch Presentation on November 2nd and 7th respectively, SideFX has released Houdini 18. If you’re already on the Annual Upgrade Plan then you’ll have been able to explore the new features. For everyone else the time is now.

As regular as the Earth's orbit round the sun, as leaves drop, nights draw in and toes turn cold, so comes Christmas and so comes the John Lewis Christmas ad.

Epic Games, makers of Unreal Engine, have been on an unreal epic journey recently. 

Two big updates in the world of rendering this week: Corona and Maxwell have both reached release number 5.

Before we all get caught up in the Christmas festivities we want to take a moment out. Mental health has been on the global agenda this past year and here at Escape we want to do our bit to help.

How we interact with the cloud has always been tricky to say the least. But no more. Where once this was a convoluted mishmash of ideas – with everyone testing and learning on the job – we’re now able to make an elegant cloud/remote pipeline function. No longer are we bound to merely some level of success or failure, utilising fire and forget cloud render providers, and watching ever longer transfer times only to see your output returned incorrect.

More than 100 years ago, Gabriel Lippman won a Nobel Prize for his Photographie Integrale which introduce the core concept of what we know today as light fields.

Autodesk has rolled out 3ds Max 2020.2 – the latest update to their 3D modelling and animation software, this time around throwing in a new SketchUp importer, Chamfer modifier updates, and brand-new display options for the viewport background. 

Like tears in the rain Windows 7 saw a lot of action this past decade, but the time has come for it to move aside and be replaced with the new and improved Windows 10.

The application of Machine Learning (ML) in the creative industries continues to grow, with current research finding practical application in the field of image creation and enhancement. As an example, neural nets can be used for tasks including denoising and up-resing. 

Every year Siggraph excels at bringing all the latest information in computer graphics to one place. This year: L.A. And it has not disappointed.

We’re thrilled to announce that Escape has partnered with Unity to become the UK’s only official Unity reseller for Media and Entertainment.