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MXL: One Acronym to Know for 2027
You do not need to rebuild a facility around MXL today. But if software-defined live production keeps spreading, know this acronym before 2027.
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.
Gaussian splats on the iPhone?
Scantic captures and reconstructs 3D Gaussian splats locally on an iPhone, keeping the acquisition and processing pipeline off the cloud.
Cut Plane Makes Blender Bisects Interactive
Cut Plane turns Blender mesh bisecting into a live, positionable operation with snapping, mirrored cuts, numeric input and selective editing.
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.
Ornatrix 4 Expands C4D Grooming
Warp Roots, procedural hair-card textures, improved clumping and Unreal colour export extend Ornatrix grooming inside Cinema 4D.
UV Flex 0.3 Adds Spline UV Deformation to Blender
UV Flex 0.3 adds interactive split, merge, reshape and spline controls to Blender's UV Editor, including falloff and 2D IK.
KIRI Brings Gaussian Splats to After Effects
KIRI Innovations releases a free, open-source After Effects plugin for rendering, styling and animating Gaussian Splat scenes from PLY files.
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.
InstaMAT Guided Scatter Controls Rock Patterns
InstaMAT’s Guided Scatter steers tile-based rock patterns with masks, vectors, scale maps and collision controls; Abstract also reports SOC 2 compliance.
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.
KeyTool Pro v1.0 for C4D
Animoore Studio’s free KeyTool Pro v1.0 brings live easing, bounce, elastic and practical keyframe utilities to Cinema 4D.
Sculptools Palette Organises Blender Sculpting
ProjectArgo’s free Blender extension puts sculpt brushes and tools into configurable radial palettes with hotkeys, sliders and JSON presets.
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.
Physical Atmosphere² 2.7.4 for Blender
Physical Atmosphere² 2.7.4 brings spectral skies, procedural clouds and weather-driven lighting to Blender 5.2.
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.
Rebelle 8.3 Adds EXR Heightmap Export
Rebelle 8.3 adds brush colour jitter, interactive selection controls, smoother gradients and Pro-only 16-bit EXR impasto heightmaps.
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.
ICE.ART 2026.II Opens Registration
Free registration is open for ICE.ART 2026.II, an online 3D environment conference running 8 to 10 September, with its agenda still pending.
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.
Resolve 21 Manual Reaches 4,443 Pages
Blackmagic’s updated Resolve 21 reference manual documents editing, colour, Fusion, Fairlight, codecs, APIs and delivery across 4,443 pages.
Cascadeur 2026.2 Adds Animation Layers
Cascadeur 2026.2 previews additive animation layers, easing controls, localised UI packs, environmental posing and Python workflow updates.
Fridays for Fusion: Corner Pinner v0.13
Corner Pinner v0.13 expands a Fusion Fuse with tracker input, From Frame mode, DoD fixes and a delightfully specific overflow warning.
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.
Beauty Box Gets Premiere AI Prompts
Digital Anarchy tests Beauty Box with Premiere AI Assistant and publishes Q&A tips for masks, skin tones and body retouching.
FilmLight Extends Colour Awards Deadline
FilmLight extends the 2026 Colour Awards deadline to 10 August and announces the first 15 jurors from cinematography and colour grading.
Blackmagic Shrinks 12G-SDI I/O
Three Thunderbolt 4 boxes cover 12G-SDI ingest, monitoring, fill and key, and replay up to 2160p60 without demanding half a rack.
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.
SmartUndo+ makes Blender Undo excellent
The Blender add-on adds per-object histories, per-F-curve undo, node-tree tracking and checkpoints for less Ctrl+Z Shenanigans.
Sisir Free Hair Grooming Tool
Free standalone grooming for Windows adds guide styling, procedural controls, masks, DCC bridge scripts and Alembic export.
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.
Ripple Pro for 3ds Max
Ripple Pro brings modern ripple, wake and rain controls to 3ds Max, without relying on its ageing built-in modifier stack.
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.
SideFX Teaches KineFX in Houdini 22
SideFX’s Max Rose presents two free Houdini 22 sessions on KineFX animation, Motion Mixer, secondary motion and retargeting.
B4D Tools Adds Blender 5.2 Support
B4D Tools 1.5.1 targets Blender motion graphics with cloners, effectors, fields, object tools and tiered licenses.