Set up at booth #329 at SIGGRAPH in LA, Thinkbox Software are showcasing cloud-enabled pipelines as well as the most recent advancements to their hugely compatible render management tool, Deadline.

SIGGRAPH 2015 is full swing in LA this week and we’re taking steps to make sure you’re up to date on the hottest announcements at this year’s show. Kicking off this blog series we have NVIDIA who have unleashed some new Quadro cards as well as their DesignWorks suite of tools for interactive photorealistic rendering aimed at designers.

Creative Rooms, a unique pop-up event in London, took place on 8 and 9 July, exploring the rise in start-up creative studios across the UK and how scalable technologies support their growth.

No surprises, that is the simple rule I hear in every production company. Even in publishing. In fact anywhere creativity is the business! This simple rule sets out the philosophy that at each stage of the creative process content needs to look the same as it would for the client.

MARI 48hr Flash Sale

MARI is The Foundry’s 3D paint tool popular amongst CG artists who need something that can rise to the challenge of HD 4K texturing. Designed by artists for artists at Weta Digital - it’s an efficient and highly customisable tool that lets you paint directly onto 3D models. Meaning less time worrying about the technical aspects and more spent creating realistic looking textures.

The Foundry want to see what your NUKE skills are made of. Win up to $12,000 worth in prizes when you enter the NUKE non-commercial summer competition, which opened on 15 July 2015 and closes 15 September. Quick, it’s not too late to enter.

When asking yourself why you need an Apple watch it’s worth considering it not as a stand alone product but as an accessory to your iPhone. The past few weeks I’ve been weighing up the value of this new device - if it offers benefits that surpass what my iPhone already offers. And here are my conclusions.

Earlier this month Milk VFX celebrated their two year anniversary. And with two BAFTA awards to show for it - those two years haven’t spent idle.

The latest V-Ray for 3ds Max is VR-Ready and fully compatible with 3ds Max 2016. 

Out in the world there are lots of people running small NAS units (like the Synology Rackstation or Supermicro Igloo) as their main central storage. These have anything from 8 to 48 disks inside, arranged to make one big fast pool of storage that can cope with failed disks.

As much as maybe we’d like to, it’s not always possible to journey to Las Vegas for a tech conference like NAB. And that seems to be the unfortunate reality for more and more professionals working in broadcast, VFX, games and animation. To resolve this we hosted an event right here in London sharing highlights of major announcements at NAB.

The Foundry are known for taking time to listen to their users - constantly striving to improve workflows to support the needs of artists and fix any bugs users come across while working with a new version.

Fancy winning a 1st prize worth over £2000 and the respect of your peers in CG? Accept the RealFlow challenge and put your fluid simulation skills to the test.

It’s quite an honour to receive a Best in Show award at NAB. This year HP scooped up this award for their new Z Turbo Drive G2, which is a solid-state drive (SSD) powered by Samsung NVMe technology - delivering four times the speed of a standard SATA SSD.

The Foundry just launched a promotion offering 20% off the price of NUKE, NUKEX or NUKE STUDIO for new adopters of this software.

Arriving at 195 Piccadilly for the 2015 RenderMan Art and Science Fair there was a palpable excitement in the air as users and enthusiasts alike gathered to see the exciting updates on offer with the latest incarnation of Pixar's RenderMan.

Since splitting from Escape Studios in December 2012 and moving into Soho, well, it's been non-stop!

Ivor Middleton is a VFX Supervisor who has worked on VFX teams for high profile projects such as Harry Potter, Gladiator, and Merlin.

It's been a year since we first heard Pixar were joining the non-commercial heavens to release a free version of their legendary RenderMan software. And finally it's here and ready for download.

Milk VFX is an independent boutique VFX house based in London. For the past two years they’ve gone from strength to strength and their most recent project for ITV Studios is set to be another visually stunning achievement they can be proud of.

One of the great things about working for Escape Technology is the wealth of knowledge you find in the staff here.

Sat at my desk this morning I decided it was about time I learnt a little more about the marvel that is Secure Shell (SSH) access. But where to start? There are plenty of blogs and resources online, but we have something more powerful. More direct. More… Tim.