Insights

Behind the scenes with the artists, studios and tech shaping the future of VFX and animation.

Studio Stories

Win or Lose animation: Lighting Pixar’s first episodic

How Pixar created a unique aesthetic for each episode.

Katana

Studio Stories

Inside Out 2 lighting: Creating the emotion characters

Find out how Pixar brought Anxiety to the screen.

KatanaNukeMari

Product Focus

The Bakery: Inside Mari’s texture-baking engine

No need to interrupt your flow, thanks to built-in map-baking.

Mari

Careers

What is a Technical Director? VFX roles explained

Get career insights from a studio pipeline TD.

NukeKatanaMari

Studio Stories

Creating Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse with Nuke, Mari & Katana

How Sony Pictures Imageworks built a unique visual style.

NukeMariKatana

Studio Stories

How the UTS Animal Logic Academy created an animated short with Mari

The student team produced the entire film in just 30 weeks.

MariKatana

Product Focus

RenderMan 26 launches new interactive denoiser in Katana

Boosting creativity and productivity at the same time.

Katana

Studio Stories

Creating magical animated tales with TAT Productions and NukeX

Discover the French studio behind the family adventure animation film, Epic Tales.

NukeNukeX

Careers

How to navigate the start of your lighting career

Tips, tricks, opportunities, and advice to help you get started.

Katana

Careers

Changing the future of animation with SCAD

How SCAD’s students created an award-winning short film, The Pope’s Dog.

Nuke

Pipeline & Workflows

Artist Spotlights

Artist Spotlight: Karen Disher

From pen on paper to our screens.

Flix