Vegas Pro 2027 Reworks Colour and GPU Delivery
Vegas Pro 2027 adds GPU colour transforms, AI Quick Mask, revised captions, event compositing and 4:2:2 encoding on specified hardware.
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KeenFace: Familiar Faces, Less Mesh Housekeeping
KeenTools brings head reconstruction to the browser and API, with MetaHuman topology, scan controls and exports worth examining closely.
ColorEdge Softens the Edges in 3ds Max
ITOOSOFT’s free ColorEdge map blends roads and terrain in 3ds Max, with adjustable ramps, procedural noise and renderer caveats worth checking.
Paperwolf: Eight Ways to Misbehave in Resolve
Paperwolf’s eight Resolve plugins bring tracking overlays, ASCII, datamoshing, time effects, dithering, old cameras and depth graphics.
ZBrush 2027: Sculpting on the Train
ZBrush 2027 brings Spotlight and 3D Layers to iPad, proper UV editing to desktop, and a welcome contrast to Mudbox's farewell.
Moho 14.5 Gives Your Rig a Live Audience
Webcam-driven characters, editable live takes and EXR export arrive in Moho 14.5. Your rig can finally attend the meeting on your behalf.
Plasticity 2026.2 Gets Its Parts Together
Plasticity 2026.2 adds reusable assets, live constraints, Project Align and finer surface controls. Some relationships remain strictly session-based.
Animatica Marionette: Pull Less, Pose More
Animatica brings offline posing and motion editing to Blender. We examine its Platige pedigree, practical limits and the Cascadeur connection.
Fibric for Houdini: A Sweater, Several Million Curves and No Regrets
Fibric builds knitted and woven fabrics from curves in Houdini, complete with stitches, fuzz and render-time deformation. Your RAM sends regards.
Red Giant 2027: Relight, Noise, Schmutz
Red Giant 2027 brings AI relighting to After Effects, procedural Maxon Noise, custom lens dirt, Autograph distortion and smarter Capsules.
NKZ Retopia 1.4.0: Relax Means Relax
NKZ Retopia 1.4.0 improves drawing on folds, rebuilds Relax and connects contour cuts, with in-tool saving and optional polygon animations.
CineMon 2 – now a Videorecorder and Audiomixer
CineMon 2 adds video recording, audio mixing and dual-input monitoring. Our Mac review explores image quality, timecode and capture limitations.
Advanced Radial Blur Lets RGB Wander
Mirza Beig’s free After Effects plug-in combines zoom blur, Gaussian softness and RGB smear, with separate masks and GPU shader passes.
Redshift 2027: More VRAM, Less Waiting
Redshift 2027 revamps GPU memory handling, speeds interactive feedback, adds procedural fur and expands DCC support, with launch-day fixes.
ohm.rent: Who Has the camera This Time?
Cameras, kits and calendar collisions: Alexander Vexler discusses ohm.rent, university equipment loans and keeping rental chaos out of the picture.
Cinema 4D 2027: Scatter, Foam and Fields
Cinema 4D 2027 adds native scatter, foam and bubbles, node-built effectors, CAD import upgrades and more detailed object-manager controls.
BlackRAW – a pocket-sized Studio
BlackRAW Studio brings BRAW and ProRes RAW playback, grading, proxies and NLE hand-off to iPhone and iPad. We test its speed and workflow limits.
TheGrain Brings Film Texture to Photo Finishing
TheGrain expands its photo-finishing workflow with Windows, 16-bit files and integrations for Photoshop, Lightroom Classic and Capture One.
Autograph 2027 Lets Agents Join the Comp
Autograph 2027 gains an MCP server, Cinema 4D scene transfer, improved typography, integrated Maxon Studio and broadcast demo projects.
RenderJuice Contest: $5,000 for Speedy Blender Animators
RenderJuice's free Blender Speed contest offers $5,000 in prizes for 5–30 second animations. Entries run October 15–31, 2026.
Clip Sweeper: Tidy Drives, Keep Your Head
Clip Sweeper finds unused footage across editing projects. We examine its safeguards, storage savings and why deletion needs a supervisor’s approval.
Maxon 2027.0: More Trees, Fewer Detours
Maxon 2027 brings Cinema 4D scatter and Liquid FX, ZBrush UVs, Redshift fur, Red Giant relighting and Autograph MCP. More deep dives follow.
ShotLink Brings Unreal Renders into After Effects
ShotLink feeds Unreal renders into After Effects, with separate passes, surface nulls and camera baking. A Blender integration is in beta.
MagicPicker 10 Gives Colour Some Boundaries
MagicPicker 10 adds named colour ranges, perceptual colour controls and native UXP support. Your palette gets boundaries. Your client remains unrestricted.
ARRI Film Lab 1.5 Adds More Film Formats
ARRI Film Lab 1.5 adds 8 mm, 16 mm and 65 mm looks, finer grain and halation controls, and ACES 2.0 support.
World Creator 4 Aims for Planetary Terrain
BiteTheBytes outlines World Creator 4. We examine the announced changes, existing terrain handoff and current licence options.
RizomUV 2027: More UVs, Less Wrestling
RizomUV 2027 adds live unfolding, density maps, a customizable interface and headless Python automation across Windows, macOS and Linux.
Nitro Retopo Tames Dense Blender Meshes
Nitro Retopo segments, repairs and rebuilds dense Blender meshes with artist-guided patches, topology patterns and automatic UVs.
SpyderPro Adds Deeper Calibration
SpyderPro adds denser greyscale measurements and detailed validation reports. Datacolor reports improvements across 24 tested displays.
Expression Alchemist: Nodes for AE Expressions
Expression Alchemist builds visual node graphs into native After Effects expressions. A clever workflow tool, with AI firmly optional.
Blender Survey 2026: What Should They Fix Next?
Blender wants your feedback again. The 2026 survey covers workflows, development priorities, money and the future of the project.
CatPin Cuts Models for a Better Fit
Editable cuts, adjustable connector clearances and batch part export bring Blender sculpts closer to a workable printed assembly.
ComfyUI’s AI Gets an AI Assistant
Comfy Agent builds and edits node graphs, reuses skills and runs generations on Cloud, with separate controls for editing and execution.
Das Element 2.3.2: Cleaner Ingest and Reverse Playback
Das Element 2.3.2 adds reverse playback, MTL support and CPU thread controls, while fixing ingest, RAW proxies and metadata.
Samplitude 2026.5 Goes Spatial
Samplitude 2026.5 adds a Spatial Panner, six-band VST3 processing, Stream Deck OSC controls, SoundApp ARA and 32-bit integer export.
CryptomatteExtractor Batches Masks into PSDs
Batch EXR and Corona CXR delivery brings named masks and render elements into layered documents for Photoshop and Affinity.
IngeTrazo: A Home for the Render Farm
A free architectural modeller combines SketchUp import, BIM quantities, drawing sheets, Blender rendering and Python extensions.
Vision Canvas: Blender’s UI, On Your Terms
Build a Blender control panel that answers to you: targeted properties, camera widgets, Python buttons, reusable animation and asset favourites.
PFTrack Solo: One Artist, All the Nodes
PFTrack Solo adds 37 previously restricted nodes, opening photogrammetry, stereo and depth workflows to individual artists.
Caddis Adds Particles, Loops and Animated Layouts
Caddis 1.1.0 adds particle simulation, graph loops, animated grids and Cryptomatte, with practical controls for procedural motion work.
DaVinci Resolve 21.1.1 Adds Async APIs
Audio-only trimming, audible mouse trims and asynchronous scripting expand Resolve’s toolkit, with new CR3 and Windows 11 USAC decoding.
Pipe It Draws Editable Networks in Unreal
Pipe It builds editable pipe networks in Unreal Engine, with custom kits, runtime Blueprint editing and bake outputs that need a dependency check.
SyncKey Reducer Keeps Poses Together
Amir Porat’s reducer aligns surviving pose frames in Max and Maya, with error controls, rig exclusions and a few cleanup buttons worth reading twice.
Starting Pixel Live Reveals Its 2026 Line-up
Starting Pixel Live reveals its 14 October line-up: Vigil III, Netflix’s Berlin, live VFX plates, MetaHumans and AI workflows.
Alpaca3D: Retopo With a Reality Check
Live bake feedback, UV constraints and editable projection cages: Alpaca3D connects low-poly construction to texture-map output.
FrameRef 1.1 opens portals across your reference mess
FrameRef 1.1 tackles large reference collections with portals, voice memos, mind-map edges, labels, AI tagging, image tools and improved video navigation.
HSHL Is Hiring: Research Associate for Virtual Production
Your Unreal Engine and C++ skills could help shape the future of filmmaking. Join HSHL’s ProSys OSVP team and build tools for virtual production.
HSHL Is Hiring: Research Associate for Digital Locations
Join HSHL’s DigiLoc premier academic team and bring your Unreal Engine and 3D environment skills to applied research. You'll havea giant stage to work with! Apply by 20 October 2026.
Higx Optics ray-traces the glass instead of faking the bokeh
Higx Optics uses ray-traced virtual lenses for bokeh and optical effects across Nuke, After Effects and Resolve Studio. We compare the approach with ZEISS LensCore.
Fridays for Fusion & Instancer2D: Foudini’s Copy to Points
Instancer 2D brings procedural 2D instancing, Fields, atlas textures and GPU performance to Fusion and other OpenFX hosts.
Colorboy: One More Node for Resolve?
Colorboy gathers camera transforms, grading and film effects in one Resolve OFX. What happens inside it, and do you need it?
Cinema 4D 2026.4 gets a built-in MCP server
Cinema 4D 2026.4 adds a built-in MCP server, allowing AI assistants to operate native Cinema 4D tools while keeping scene data editable.
SGO Workflows Slate automates burn-ins
Browser-based Workflows Slate turns pipeline metadata into reusable burn-ins and slates for dailies, VFX pulls and delivery.
MechaPaint 2.0 Paints Pixels and Plastic
MechaPaint 2.0 combines PBR painting, physical-paint matching, image-derived geometry, local AI and engine-ready delivery in one 3D workflow.
Colormass Scans 177 Reasons to Check Your Shader
Colormass offers free scanned materials for look development. The maps deserve a close look, and the licence deserves an even closer one.
Tripo P2.0: Put Quad Mesh Generation to the Test
Tripo P2.0 adds quad output, adjustable mesh budgets and local regeneration. A practical starting point for testing image-to-3D assets in your own pipeline.
Hair Bone Generator Maps Blender Strands
Hair Bone Generator maps stylised Blender hair into connected deform-bone chains, with three guide methods and controls for spacing and root placement.
RailClone Opens Its Graphs to MaxScript
RailClone exposes its style graphs as XML, opening them to MaxScript automation, pipeline tools and, inevitably, LLM experiments.
Blackmagic Camera 3.5 Opens the Iris
Blackmagic Camera 3.5 gets inside iPhone 18 Pro hardware with variable-aperture control, Pro Video Storage and Cinematic recording.
The Royal Way to Render
In 2001, render farms were local, internet connections still screamed through telephone lines, and launching jobs across several machines could consume an entire evening. Holger Schoenberger founded Binary Alchemy to remove some of that administrative misery
Beauty Box 6.5 Finds Teeth So You Don’t Have To
Beauty Box 6.5 adds AI masks for teeth and eye whites, a new local inference engine and improved face tracking across major finishing hosts.
SoftRAID 9 Adds RAID 6, Minus the RAID Card
SoftRAID 9 adds RAID 6 and RAID 6+ for directly attached storage, including third-party hardware, with one substantial macOS condition.
Plugin Hub Tames Blender’s Tab Jungle
Plugin Hub herds Blender’s proliferating add-on panels into one tidy tab, with optional menu and floating-window access.
Adobe finishes buying Topaz Labs
Adobe has finished buying Topaz Labs. The apps stay standalone, while the AI heads deeper into Creative Cloud. Nobody panic. Yet.
KeyFlow Turns Maya Repetitions Into Buttons
Fenix Animator’s KeyFlow puts Maya animation chores into a customizable toolbar, from timing and mirroring to temporary rig controls.
All the World’s Codecs out of DaVinci Resolve
InterX brings FFmpeg-backed encoding, compliance checks and deep codec controls straight into DaVinci Resolve’s Deliver page on macOS.
Higgsfield Brings AI Generation Into Blender. Oh, goodey.
Higgsfield’s Blender add-on generates editable scenes, meshes, rigs and media from the viewport, with cloud inference and credit billing.
DeckBridge Gives Resolve a Smarter Stream Deck
DeckBridge turns Stream Deck into a Resolve-aware controller with live keymaps, page switching, Fairlight feedback and ten dedicated actions.
AJA FS8 Bridges SDI and ST 2110
AJA squeezes SDI/IP conversion, sync, HDR, audio routing and ST 2110 into 1RU, giving post facilities a practical route from baseband to IP.
Blender 5.3 Brings Gaussian Splats Home
Blender 5.3 brings Gaussian Splats into the core app, with native import, Geometry Nodes access and rendering across Workbench, EEVEE and Cycles.
COLMAP Moves Into the Browser
Rafael Spring ports COLMAP’s sparse reconstruction workflow into a local browser app, with WebGPU acceleration and standard COLMAP output.
Animo Sliders Bring Maya Controls to Blender
Ehsan Bayat brings 16 Animo animation sliders to Blender for faster pose, timing and keyframe adjustments.
SuperSplat 3 Moves Editing to WebGPU
SuperSplat 3 rebuilds its Gaussian-splat editor on WebGPU, shrinking browser memory use and moving sorting, selection and more onto the GPU.
Fridays for Fusion: PROPAGATE, Finally
PROPAGATE copies changed parameters, connections, expressions and animation across Fusion nodes. An obvious idea, now available in software.
Pixel Lab Sells Gems Cheaper Than GPUs
Pixel Lab packs 30 gemstones and 40+ ancient tree stumps into PLY Gaussian splats. The gems are cheap. Your workstation probably isn't.
Flair Heads for Unreal, Maya 2027 Ready
Flair is closing in on its Unreal Engine debut while the Maya renderer adds Maya 2027 support and clears out several workflow gremlins.
SwitchX 2.0 Adds 2160p and 10-Bit Output
Beeble doubles SwitchX shot length to 20 seconds, adds 2160p and 10-bit output, source-following camera motion and a draft-to-finish path.
Redshift 2026.9 Tightens the Bolts
Redshift 2026.9 adds Houdini 22 support, broader USD workflows and leaner render preparation, while clearing out a useful pile of production bugs.
Hardcraft Tames CAD Meshes in Blender
Hardcraft turns CAD structure into controllable Blender topology, with quads where they help and triangles where they make more sense.
GhostPencilPro Gives Max a Grease Pencil
GhostPencilPro brings Grease Pencil-style drawing, animation, .ABR brushes and scripting into 3ds Max, without making Max users learn Blender.
Animo Packs 500+ Maya Tools Into One Panel
Animo gathers 500+ Maya animation tools into one editor, adds direct reference media, hotkeys and six new sliders. Still beta. Still free.
FreePencil2 Draws Blender Lines in One Click
FreePencil2 turns Blender geometry into editable line art with one setup button, compositor edge detection and manual paint fixes.
Animcraft 6.0 Adds AI Rigging and Kimodo
Basefount adds automatic skinning and weight processing to Animcraft, plus NVIDIA Kimodo-based text-to-motion generation for character workflows.
Max Ultra MCP puts AI agents inside 3ds Max
Max Ultra MCP gives AI assistants a local, tool-based route into live 3ds Max scenes, with scene inspection, MaxScript, viewport and render control.
ArmorPaint 1.0 swaps Haxe for C
ArmorPaint 1.0 swaps Haxe for C, trims memory use and adds local AI, UV tools, sculpting and broader interchange.
Vizibeat Drives UE5 Scenes From Music
Vizibeat maps audio, MIDI and show-control signals into procedural Unreal Engine animation, with live performance and Sequencer workflows.
Datacolor expands Spyder Checkr card system
Datacolor adds standalone grey and white balance cards plus Photo and Video card decks, extending Spyder Checkr’s modular colour workflow.
KitBash3D Paris: City Break, No Airport
The Kitbash3D Set "Paris" brings Haussmann blocks, landmarks, street props and a game-ready Unreal path. Your next city break may require 32 GB of RAM.
Baselight 8: The feature list is the easy part
FilmLight explains why Baselight 8 adds mastering-focused audio tracks, a new linear-light grain model, Color Crosstalk, Color Correlation and ML-assisted Groups View.
EditingTools.io: The Post-production Toolbox
Rafael Maier explains why EditingTools.io bets on small tools, strict metadata, offline workflows and human support for modern postproduction.
Free Glass Distortion Node for Blender
A free Blender compositor node creates patterned-glass distortion from grayscale textures, with masking and five supplied patterns.
Media Composer 2026.8 Changes Shared Projects
Avid opens supported third-party Shared Projects in Enterprise, closes old NEXIS emulation in 2026.8 and adds multicam transcript automation.
OBSBOT Meet Flip Review: Finally, a Webcam That Knows How to Shut Up
The OBSBOT Meet Flip is tiny, genuinely portable and physically private. Add very good 4K video and surprisingly mature software, and this may be the travel webcam we have been waiting for.
ITFS 2027 Opens for Entries
ITFS 2027 opens five film competitions with November and January deadlines, AI-use disclosure and clearly specified delivery files.
Digital Anarchy for the Adobe UXP Rewrite
CEP panels still run, but their comfortable retirement is approaching. Jim Tierney explains what UXP migration really costs.
Avid and FilmLight connect editorial colour
Avid and FilmLight want Baselight colour closer to the Media Composer timeline, with fewer handoffs from dailies through finishing.
Adobe Puts a Prompt Layer Across Pro Video
Premiere gains in-timeline generation while After Effects turns plain English into native project work. Adobe’s bigger shift is the interface itself.
Resolve 21.1 Adds MCP and Finally Gets Presets
Resolve 21.1 brings MCP, overdue Inspector presets, deeper Fusion tools and a Python move that turns Studio into an automation heavyweight.
Audacity 4 Rebuilds the Fast Audio Editor
Audacity 4 replaces old tool modes with contextual editing, clip grouping, ripple commands and a Qt UI while keeping its free desktop role.
Edge Decal Generator generates edgy Edge Decals
Gilad Baruch’s Blender add-on creates editable mesh decals for wear, welds and seams, with layers, masks, FBX export and an Unreal workflow.