To win a Scientific and Technical Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is no small feat. After all, these prestigious awards, which are given at a …

by Joseph Herman Every year, right around SIGGRAPH (the annual pow-wow of all things computer graphics), MAXON unveils the latest version of its flagship 3D modeling, rendering and animation package …

Imagine if the excruciatingly long time it took to render photo-realistic 3D images were reduced to practically no time at all. No, it’s not a pipe dream, it’s graphic processing …

It seems that no matter how fast workstation computers get, there are always new developments on the horizon that push the limits of what machines can do. That’s good,