A group of U.S. visual effects workers engaged directly by “Star Wars” franchise productions has joined the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees for collective bargaining purposes. The ...

Unity 6.5 shifts rendering pipelines by deprecating BIRP and advancing URP with HDRP in maintenance mode. Replaces NVIDIA OptiX with OIDN and enables mobile HDR rendering through URP on-tile ...

Physicists have long been drawn to the nonlinear Hall effect: a subtle variant of the classical Hall effect, in which an electric voltage appears perpendicular to a current flowing through a material.

Not long ago, creating a solid presentation, a clean infographic, or a sharp data visualization meant you either knew your way around design software or you paid someone who did. That has changed, ...

Animated 3D elements are not only beautiful, but also expensive to build. Typically, effects like these require an experienced frontend developer, WebGL knowledge, and dozens of hours of work. However ...

Apple today acquired MotionVFX, a major developer of plugins, visual effects, and motion graphics tools for Final Cut Pro. MotionVFX is a Polish software company founded by Szymon Masiak in 2009. It ...

Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett have won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for "Avatar: Fire and Ash" at the 2026 Academy Awards. With this win, all three of James ...

On Sunday night, the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects went to Avatar: Fire and Ash, cementing its historic status in film history. See the list of 2026 Oscar winners. James Cameron's third trip ...

A new video details all of the technology and tricks used to bring Ryan Coogler's vampire film to life. Reading time 2 minutes The awards season finish line is finally in sight, and while it looked ...

'KPop Demon Hunters' tops the animation categories. By Beatrice Verhoeven Awards Editor The Visual Effects Society (VES) has announced the winners for the 2026 VES Awards, recognizing excellence in ...

Visual effects supervisor Baneham and Wētā FX senior effects supervisor Eric Saindon talk to IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit podcast about working on James Cameron's 197-minute epic — that has only ...