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13.03.2026

Abstract ships InstaMAT 2026 Curves Brushes

InstaMAT 2026 adds editable curve painting, smarter symmetry, and fresh mesh masking, plus pricing tweaks that matter for teams and freelancers.

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Huion Kamvas Slate 11 Review: A Practical Android Tablet That Also Draws

A compact, competitively priced Android tablet that works as a daily driver for sketching and notes, with solid performance, a surprisingly…

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Let’s Build a Blender Hut This Weekend!

A free Blender Geometry Nodes hut generator with adjustable detail and clear reuse rules for personal and commercial projects.

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FMX 2026 program goes live

The FMX program is live for the 30th edition, with RENO pipeline lessons, generative video craft, and European collab on Predator: Badlands.

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A Lost Méliès Gag Film Resurfaces in 4K

A 45-second Georges Méliès slapstick short unseen for over a century is online again after scan and stabilization work.

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A character in a dark cavern gazes at a glowing, crystalline creature resembling a serpent. The blue-lit environment sparkles with tiny lights, creating an otherworldly atmosphere.

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On a Mission: Creating “NO ONE’S LIGHT”

No One’s Light is what happens when you start with 50 sci-fi ideas, delete 47 of them for survival reasons, and end up with a five-minute animated short that still looks like an alien planet got a proper art department. Blender handles the world…

A group of animated animals gathered on a stone surface in a natural setting. A large bear roars, while smaller creatures, including a fluffy squirrel, a chubby rabbit, a tiny green lizard, and a deer, look on, creating a lively, playful scene.

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How Pixar Cheats a Skunk Tail

Kranzler talks Hoppers grooming and shading, including a layered wet-fur look and why skunks got a “cheated” tail.

A person in dark clothing stands outside a brightly lit convenience store, facing a large moose. Two parked cars are visible nearby under the glow of neon lights of the store, creating an intriguing night scene.

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MPC’s Cold Storage

MPC Paris delivered 575 shots on Cold Storage, from invisible fixes to slime, creatures and a nuclear finale. But how?

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A World Divided: Shaping a Global WWII Epic at Overmind Studios

125 shots, six episodes, and a two-person team. VFX lead Tobias Kummer explained how Overmind Studios delivered geographic transformations, period cleanup, atmospherics, and a nuclear blast for A World Divided, built on disciplined templating and…

A diver in a dark underwater environment, wearing a full-face diving helmet and breathing apparatus. Bubbles rise around him as ambient light filters through the water, creating a mysterious atmosphere.

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Grading Kraken: insights from the colour grade

Senior Colourist Dylan Hopkin (Shortcut Oslo) outlines the grading process behind the new sci-fi film Kraken, and how contrast, colour and AI-assisted tools were used to support storytelling.

A 3D animation software interface displaying a sequence of seven humanoid figures in varying poses, with one figure standing in a center position, showcasing character animation progress. The background is black, emphasizing the models.

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Cascadeur on physics, AI and control

Cascadeur explains how physics solvers and local AI shape modern keyframe animation. Physics-assisted keyframing and AI-generated Inbetweening sound like shorthand for automation. In practice, they describe a layered system that revolves around…

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Hawaiki Keyer – for those who don’t trust all the magic of AI

Hawaiki Keyer 5 brings AI tracking and dual-key control to Resolve, handling messy greenscreen shots more reliably than Magic Mask. Or does it?

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Mnemonica sets out to fix digital cinema memory

Mnemonica Archive addresses digital film by treating preservation as an active, monitored process rather than passive storage.

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A 3D model of a human hand displayed in Blender software, showing detailed finger shapes and skin texture. On the right, settings for the model, including options for modifiers and UV mapping settings, are visible.

Neat LimbKit gives Blender a hand, literally

LimbKit is a free Blender 4.5+ Geometry Nodes tool for quickly blocking hands, feet, and some creature variants via adjustable procedural controls.

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Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 12 with decal warp

Substance 3D Painter 12 adds Warp to Geometry for decals, expands viewport post effects, and introduces flatten-in-stack exports plus new pricing details.

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Nobe OmniScope gets Live Pack for on-set and live monitoring

Time in Pixels has released Live Pack for Nobe OmniScope Pro, adding SDI output, Livegrade integration, multi-input monitoring, recording, snapshots, focus peaking and loudness metering for on-set and live work.

Shader Playground, rendered in Arnold for Maya, using OpenPBR Surface. Artwork by Nikie Monteleone.

OpenPBR BSDF reference code from Adobe

OpenPBR BSDF reference implementation for Substance is public as a small library with prepare, sample, eval, pdf API and multi-target compilation.

Texturing XYZ puts SKAP online, pores included

Texturing XYZ’s SKAP turns 2K to 8K inputs into 16K skin maps in a browser, priced in credits at $1 each.

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AdonisFX 2.0 brings Houdini support, anisotropic muscles, and triangle-level self-collisions

AdonisFX 2.0 is a big structural release: Houdini support arrives as SOP nodes, core solvers pick up anisotropy and triangle-level self-collisions, paint maps gain non-linear remaps, and the toolset gets a practical layer of “pipeline hygiene”…

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QuickSweep sorts your Premiere bins while you blink

EditingTools.io ships QuickSweep for Premiere Pro: one-click bin sorting, optional auto-sweep every four seconds, and an item-move history log.

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BMD European Tour 2026 lets you touch the gear

Blackmagic Design’s Workflow Tour lands in Amsterdam and Berlin in March with ATEM ISO and Resolve sessions aimed at fast podcast delivery.

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VFX School Closes and Leaves the Lights On

For those who don’t know the school: The VFX School was an online training platform focused primarily on Houdini-based FX simulation workflows. Its courses centred on effects such as destruction, fluids and pyro simulations, sometimes…

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Gradient Generator: free Cinema 4D tool for procedural gradients

Gradient Generator is a small, free helper for Cinema 4D 2025+ that generates gradient-based looks without turning your material editor into a museum of tiny sliders. It is compatible with Octane Render 2025+ (not required) and ready for Octane…

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CrumplePop targets baked audio mixes

CrumplePop 2026 adds GPU processing and AI models that split finished mixes into editable stems inside SoundApp.

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Autodesk adds generative 3D to Flow Studio

Autodesk introduces Wonder 3D inside Flow Studio, enabling text and image prompts to generate editable 3D assets.

tyFlow 2 adds CUDA fluid solver and 20 Infernos

tyFlow 2 integrates a CUDA fluid solver, adds 20 Inferno operators, and expands caching and collision features.

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OmniStep 2.0 adds modules and dynamic collisions

OmniStep 2.0 adds a module system, dynamic collisions, and workflow tweaks for interactive animation inside Blender.

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Spline Mesher Pro rewrites Unity splines

Staggart Creations rebuilds Spline Mesher Pro with Jobs, Burst, fill meshes and editor LOD support.

Cinema 4D plugin for organic line growth hits the web

AlgoMesh releases Differential Line Growth, a free Cinema 4D plugin that iterates splines into organic curves.

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RenderMan 27.2 adds USD and XPU updates

RenderMan 27.2 ships with USD, XPU and workflow updates aimed at production use.

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280 free automotive Substrate materials for UE 5.7

Epic’s new Automotive Substrate Materials pack on Fab bundles over 280 vehicle-focused Substrate materials plus templates, setup assets, and calibrated maps, targeting consistent results across Lumen and the Path Tracer in Unreal Engine 5.7.3…