Cinema 4D Prints Without the Desk Spaghetti
Lukas Thorup’s free Cinema 4D plugin animates print layers, infill and a moving printer rig. Our actual printer remains less cooperative.
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Top News: the most relevant updates for post, VFX, and real-time production. Releases, acquisitions, funding, major industry moves, and deadline-relevant changes, curated for impact and practical relevance rather than volume. Fast to scan, links to sources, minimal fluff.
ArcBrush 1.7: From Batches to Materials
Already useful for DP’s image galleries, ArcBrush adds material sets, 3D previews, Lens Blur and free floating-point editing in version 1.7.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ColorEdge CS3200X review: The EIZO feeling without the colourist tax?
Two weeks with EIZO's new 31.5-inch CS3200X reveal a colour-accurate 4K production monitor that retains much of the CG experience at roughly a thrid of the price. How?
Fridays for Fusion: Lens flares, node by node
LFTools turns Fusion lens flares into modular node graphs, with procedural irises, bitmap elements, global controls and a $10 preset pack.
ICE.ART 2026.II agenda is set
ICE.ART 2026.II has its final agenda: three online evenings covering animation, virtual production, architecture, materials and realtime worlds.
EDGY Cuts Mesh Damage in C4D and Blender
EDGY cuts chips, cracks, craters and breaks into closed Cinema 4D and Blender meshes while leaving the original object untouched.
tyFlow 2.100 Adds PhysX Vehicles
tyFlow adds PhysX vehicle rigs to 3ds Max, plus 3DGS interchange for Max 2027+ and a lower-VRAM Inferno advection mode.
Finally, EIZO does OLED: CG3200X
EIZO finally gives ColorEdge an OLED panel, with 1,000 cd/m² maximum luminance and unusually transparent control over ABL behaviour.
Open-Source Photogrammetry Gets Friendlier
Simple Photogrammetry GUI bundles an open-source reconstruction stack behind a friendly UI, now with beta AMD/HIP support and useful logs.
PostPro Analytics Counts Creative Work
PostPro Analytics logs project activity across nine Mac creative apps and turns it into local dashboards, CSV reports and billing evidence.
Softie Adds XPBD Collisions to Blender
Softie combines fast Geometry Nodes deformation with an experimental XPBD mode for soft contact, self-collision and interactive sculpting.
Command Frame: After Effects macros without writing scripts
Command Frame turns After Effects actions into reusable command chains. The duller and more repetitive the job, the more sense it starts to make.
Blackmagic Adds Script Hooks and Pre-Record
Resolve gains script access to timeline selections and render settings, while Cinema Camera 6K gets up to 10 minutes of pre-record.
LUT Tuner Makes LUTs Tunable in Resolve
Excerpt: Cutpoint Labs turns edited .cube LUTs into adjustable Resolve DCTLs, complete with fit metrics, range controls and an inverse workflow.
Fridays for Fusion: Mug Advanced Halftone
Mug Advanced Halftone brings configurable print screens, jitter, palette reduction and RGB misregistration to Resolve and Fusion via Reactor.
Project Manager 4.01 speaks asset search
Project Manager adds local AI text search across 30-plus languages, reference-image search and a 12-language interface for 3ds Max libraries.
Media Plane adds nonlinear editing to Maya
Gizmify brings clip editing, retiming, compositing and scripted reference workflows directly into Maya with the beta Media Plane Editor.
Hearing Voices: What can AI in DaVinci Resolve 21 do for you?
We have been looking into transcription and subtitles from audio before, but Resolve 21 has added background processing and more AI in this field. Like going the other way, from text to audio, or from one voice to another. Are these features production-ready?
Armature 2 automates character rigging
FabricatorStudio's Windows app combines local AI and geodesic skinning with manual rig tools, USD hand-off and a free indie licence.
Fridays for Fusion: Free InPaint Macro Tackles Cleanup
InPaint adds a matte-driven cleanup helper to Reactor for Fusion shots where cloning falls apart on gradients and uneven surfaces.
EIZO ColorEdge CG3100X review: Is this the last great IPS monitor?
Four months with EIZO’s 30.5-inch DCI-4K flagship reveal a superbly uniform, silent IPS monitor that leaves very little room for excuses.
Blendkit expands to Maya, Godot and Rhino
Blendkit opens its asset library to Maya, Godot and Rhino through free open-source plugins, although the integrations remain early-stage software.
KitBash Buys ArtStation and Sketchfab
KitBash acquires ArtStation and Sketchfab from Epic. Nothing breaks today, but another chunk of the 3D ecosystem now has one owner.
Let’s talk to the Caddis developer.
Digital Production spoke with developer Mike Gaynor about the creation and implementation of Caddis.
ZEISS LensCore is here
ZEISS explains how LensCore recreates physical lens behaviour inside Nuke, supports custom lenses and fits into professional VFX pipelines.
Autodesk Sets Mudbox End-of-Sale Dates
Autodesk ends annual and monthly Mudbox sales on November 7, 2026; Media & Entertainment Collection 2027 is the last collection to include it.
AccuFACE 2 Grand Launch: Professional-Grade Facial Mocap for CC5 HD Characters
Reallusion's AccuFACE 2 adds GPU facial tracking, CC5 HD mapping, non-linear curves, AMD support and a wider iClone mocap pipeline.
Workshop: Building a Real-Time Location
A practical workshop on reconstructing real locations in Unreal Engine, using Sonagraf’s Yoyogi project to explain each production decision.
MoonRay’s First ASWF Release Adds MaterialX
MoonRay’s first ASWF release adds MaterialX map graphs, HdMoonRay integration and production-focused lighting, volume and stability work.
Sequoia 2026.5 Unifies Spatial Panning
Boris FX Sequoia 2026.5 adds one panner for stereo, surround and ADM/Atmos mixes, plus ARA, video and export workflow updates.
Volinga brings 4D Gaussian Splats to Unreal
Volinga converts animated PLY sequences into compact NVOL assets for real-time 4D Gaussian Splat playback in Unreal Engine 5.8.
Maverick Render 2026.1 Adds Cutaways
Maverick Render 2026.1 adds non-destructive cutaways, web spinners, fSpy matching, broader undo and a refreshed CUDA and OptiX core.
Autodesk Flow Studio adds 3D Editor and Canvas
Autodesk adds 3D scene direction and a node-based Canvas to Flow Studio for more controllable AI-assisted filmmaking.
RenderMan 27.3 Adds MaterialX to XPU
Pixar’s RenderMan 27.3 adds native MaterialX and initial Cryptomatte support to XPU, plus stylized-look, hair and volume updates.
Golaem opens Houdini and Unreal bridges
Autodesk has published Golaem’s Houdini and Unreal cache bridges under Apache 2.0, with procedural loading, Layout edits and no geometry bake.
Mixos paints PBR in the browser
Browser-based PBR painter Mixos supports mesh imports, layer masking, 4K paid exports and a 2,669-material CC0 library.
Cascadeur 2026.2 Adds Animation Layers
Cascadeur 2026.2 previews additive animation layers, easing controls, localised UI packs, environmental posing and Python workflow updates.
Reallusion Opens RTX Render Beta
Reallusion’s RTX Render beta brings path tracing, physical materials, lighting and colour controls to iClone 8 and Character Creator 5.
Animates Suite tunes Blender keys
Blender animators get key selection, retiming, Key Amp, onion skins, editable motion paths and world-space locks in one add-on.
How much Intelligence in DaVinci Resolve’s AI?
DaVinci Resolve 21 spots faces, cats and chaotic slates. We tested how smart IntelliSearch really is before the RAM starts sweating.
3DCoat 2026.11 Lets the Nodes Loose
The final 3DCoat 2026.11 release brings GPU node texturing, sculpt-time look development, voxel lattices and a sizeable modelling overhaul.
AutoRemesher Final Goes MIT
AutoRemesher reaches its final release under MIT, adding target quads, CLI operation and builds for Windows, macOS and Linux.
LaCie 8big Pro5: The Big Box
Fast, vast and decidedly audible: we tested the 192 TB LaCie 8big Pro5 with RAID 50, Thunderbolt 5 and real production workloads.
InstaMAT adds 2D UV painting
The July update brings 2D UV painting, UDIM handling, faster rebakes and fresher DCC support for texture-heavy work.
CameraMatch Adds Cinema 4D Workflow
CameraMatch AutoSetup v6 now supports Cinema 4D, adding automated camera matching for photomontage and archviz workflows.
Maya 2027.2 trains MotionMaker
Maya expands MotionMaker with custom model training, horse animation, cleaner path tools and wider DCC updates for artists.
3ds Max 2027.2 Adds Editable Splats
3ds Max 2027.2 brings editable 3DGS workflows, Points, Point Instance, Arnold 7.5.2 support and USD path diagnostics.