Futuremark, the company behind the popular 3DMark and PCMark benchmarks that are widely used by reviewers (us included) and enthusiasts alike, has a released technology demo showcasing real-time ...

Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile developer tri-Ace is showing off its latest physically-based rendering technology. The Tokyo-based developer today launched a new section on its “Research and ...

At SIGGRAPH 2017 this week VFX reporter Mike Seymour has been interviewing researchers, veterans and technology companies inside a virtual reality environment created using Epic’s Unreal Engine, which ...

Over the past few years, there’s been a lot of discussion about the convergence of video games and visual effects. Both mediums tend to rely on the same – or similar – tools these days to generate cg ...

Graphics researcher Jorge Jimenez has cracked the problem of rendering what he calls "ultra realistic skin" in real-time with consumer-level computer and graphics hardware. It's a breakthrough made ...

Nicole Scott of Netbook News is on the ground for us again and this time she is at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. Next up we ran into an NVIDIA product manager chap from the Quadro ...

In the 1990s, the field of architectural design was transformed by the widespread adoption of computers and CAD programs. This revolution affected the entire design process from start to finish, ...

According to Pixar, the average TS2 frame took about 6 hrs to render:<br><br>http://www.pixar.com/howwedoit/index.html<br><br>(click the lever until you get to frame ...