If you have an artistic inclination, yet are proficient in the use of modern technology, then you can have a lucrative career in 3D animation and graphics. This field has become very popular in the ...

Vizrt Group anounced that the 3D computer graphics program LightWave 3D has been sold to U.K.-based team led by Andrew Bishop. With over 30 years in the animation and VFX industry, Bishop and his team ...

Back in the early 1980s, a spinning square world heralded the start of a computer animation revolution, as this archive BBC footage shows. Back in 1982, computing was really going mainstream. Tron, ...

Every industry has its own version of the Nobel Prize. Film has the Oscars, the internet has the Webby Awards, music has the AMAs. Computing machinery, meanwhile, has The Turing Award, and that's just ...

3D computer graphics, sometimes called CGI, 3DCG or three-dimensional computer graphics (in contrast to 2D computer graphics), are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric ...

Until recently, computer software animation developers had to manipulate characters by using their computer mouse to drag virtual limbs into poses one tedious, time-consuming key frame at a time. Now ...

Two men who invented game-changing 3D computer graphics techniques now widely used in the film industry have won the highest distinction in computer science: the Turing Award. If you enjoyed Toy Story ...

Today we’re going to discuss how 3D graphics are created and rendered for a 2D screen. From polygon count and meshes, to lighting and texturing, there are a lot of considerations in building the 3D ...

“This system lets you capture video with your cell phone out in the Alps and do body tracking. Doing this in 3D, in real-time and just with a camera like the one on your mobile device — that is a big ...

With Tron Legacy out and making us all reflect on how far computer graphics have come since 1982, we thought that this would be a good time to look at the history, evolution and occasionally ...