Tears of Steel and the Open-Source VFX Pipeline
A short film about robots in Amsterdam doubled as a stress test for free visual effects tools.
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Photo Essay: Night Shift at the Container Port
Cranes, floodlights and the crews who move the city’s cargo while it sleeps.
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Note: Rain Took Out the Rooftop Relay Again
If the site was slow on Tuesday night, blame the weather and a very old cable gland.
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Cosmos Laundromat Is Still the Weirdest Pilot Ever Made
A suicidal sheep, a mysterious salesman and a laundromat at the edge of the universe.
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How a Volunteer Render Farm Finished Spring
Thousands of frames, hundreds of borrowed machines and one very patient scheduler.
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Five Seconds of Flower: Why CC0 Footage Matters
A tiny public-domain clip powers thousands of tutorials. Here is why that matters.
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Note: Our Corrections Policy, Now in Plain Words
When we get it wrong, we say so, fix it and show what changed.
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Sintel, Ten Years Later: Still Hunting Dragons
The open movie that made a generation of artists cry still lands its ending.
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Codec Shootout on Ten Seconds of Test Footage
Same clip, five encoders, one very picky jury.