Google to sell SketchUp to Trimble

| Industry, News | 29/04/2012 15:40pm sketchup_1

Google has signed a definitive agreement to sell the SketchUp 3D modelling platform to satellite mapping specialist Trimble Navigation for an undisclosed amount

UK tax relief for the CG industry

| Industry, News | 30/03/2012 11:51am wallace-and-gromit_tax_breaks

Great news for the whole CG industry: The UK government has announced its intention to establish nationwide games, animation and high-end television tax breaks…

Vimeo Festival 2012: Show your work to the world!

| Industry, News | 09/02/2012 14:29pm vimeo_festival_1_09022012

Calling all filmmakers! If you’ve got a film you’ve been slaving over, now’s your chance to do something with it – enter the Vimeo Festival before 20 February for your chance to win a $5,000 grant or the grand prize of $25,000! Money aside, this festival is a great way to get your work seen by important people in the CG industry

Rango sweeps the 10th annual VES Awards

| Industry, News | 08/02/2012 16:24pm ILM's Rango

Industrial Light & Magic’s animated Western Rango scooped up four statues at the 2012 Visual Effects Society Awards last night

Maxon UK opens satellite office in London

| Industry, News | 08/02/2012 11:24am Maxon London Office

The new Pall Mall office will provide Maxon’s London-based customers with benefits: now you can get face-to-face technical support and same-day deliveries of Cinema 4D

VFX Oscar race narrowed to ten films

| Industry, News | 12/01/2012 14:25pm

At the end of 2011, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced fifteen films that were being considered in the Achievement in Visual Effects category for the 84th Academy Awards

CGSociety presents its retrospective of 2011

| Industry, News | 11/01/2012 16:19pm

CGSociety has just posted its retrospective of 2011, presenting the community-voted list of CG-related coolness

Autodesk calls for submissions for its 2012 Best of the Best Show Reel

| Events, Industry, News | 25/11/2011 10:46am auto_best_thumb

Looking to show off your talent? Be part of the Autodesk 2012 Best of the Best Reel

3D World CG Awards 2011 winners announced!

| Events, Industry, Magazine, News | 14/09/2011 11:08am tdw148-f_awards-thumb

Winners of the 3D World CG Awards 2011 have been announced – find out the best of the best right here!

James Cameron talks about 3D’s future

| Industry, News | 13/09/2011 12:10pm James-Cameron

Cameron spoke at IBC about 3D on TV, value for money and the future of 3D at the movies

bluegfx Expo 2 announced for November 2011

| Events, Industry, News | 24/08/2011 11:47am bluegfx-logo

Digital technology company bluegfx has announced the date for its second gathering of media and entertainment vendors and customers

SIGGRAPH Asia 2011: speakers revealed

| Events, Industry, News | 23/08/2011 15:03pm SA2011_black-1

The featured speakers for the Asian strand of the computer graphics conference, taking place this year in Hong Kong, have now been announced

SIGGRAPH 2011 attendance figures

| Events, Industry, News | 16/08/2011 16:43pm siggraph-exhibition

The organisers of the biggest conference for computer graphics has announced the attendance figures and other stats for SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver

Voting in the CG Awards 2011 is closed!

| Industry, Magazine, News | 11/08/2011 14:31pm 3dwCG-awards-thumb

Thanks to the thousands of 3D enthusiasts and professionals who voted – look out for the results on 14 September

SIGGRAPH 2011 show report – 9 August

| Events, Industry, News | 10/08/2011 20:49pm Source: ACM SIGGRAPH

3D World braves the show floor and the crowds on the first day of the exhibition