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Newsletter Archive

7 August 2026

20260810

Another newsletter round, this time with nodes in 3DCoat, a test of the intelligence in DaVinci Resolve (artificial, but intelligence nevertheless), Cascadeur, Filmlight, Volinga, Grooming, Splats in Unreal, Flow Studio, and many more things.

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26 July 2026

20260727 Digital Production Newsletter

Welcome to another round of “In case you missed it, this is the cool stuff” - InstaMAT added a full 2D Painter for UVs, and, one dimension further, 3ds Max can edit splats) and all your references and assets get sorted - in Maya, with Das Element 2.3, and with Photoshop and Blender working together. And 4D? Well, the best Camera Matcher in Version 6 now talks to Cinema 4D. (You see what I did there? Hilarious, init?) // New Website Features And there is something new internally as well: If you are on an article or post on Digital Production.com, you can now just hit Ctrl+P (Or whatever it is in Mac-Land), and you should get a nice, clean print version for archival, sending along, or drawing and making notes. Or Paper Planes; we aren’t judging how you get your colleagues to read something. None of the menus / sidebars / Footers, but all of the links. None of the “Website Styles”, but all of the readable text. This “Print.CSS” took ages, because it is NOT one of our core strengths. NOT AT ALL. But it seems to be working - give it a try, and tell us how it works for you!

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10 July 2026

20260713 Digital Production Newsletter

We are still before the big update season, which is what happens when software vendors notice that nobody has quite enough buttons, exporters, APIs, machine-learning layers or mysterious checkbox-based workflows yet (A toilet drain is technically a flow of work, is't it?).

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19 June 2026

20260629 Digital Production Newsletter

We are in the next heatwave, but by now everybody is used to it. Why leave the house if there are so many updates to run? And you want everything running before the new autumn workload grows too much. Also, there is an internal update: We have a new feature on the Digital Production website. If you want to know something, use the search in the bottom-left corner and chat with the site (Obviously, the so-far-unchangable logo looks like an anus, as does every other AI tool. Look it up!). It works reasonably well if you search for a version number, the last time we talked about a feature or something similar. But if you have a real question, you should contact us directly. Seriously. And if anybody tries this “make me an array” stuff, then... please don’t.

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29 May 2026

20260601 Digital Production Newsletter

Considering the heatwave outside (Greetings from 32°C Munich) makes rendering a torture (even more so then usual) and saps all the excitement of running compute-intesive (And therefor heatgenerating) tools. Therefor, this time, we have a handful of smart tools, new features, and nothing REALLY that heavy in terms of workload.

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19 May 2026

202605Evansresearch Reminder

Evans Research Associates ist ein unabhängiges Marktforschungsunternehmen und führt eine Studie durch, um die veränderten Bedürfnisse der Nutzer von Videoprogrammen zu ermitteln. Die vollständige Befragung nimmt, abhängig von Ihren Antworten, ungefähr 12-15 Minuten in Anspruch.Wenn Sie zum gesuchten Personenkreis gehören und alle Fragen vollständig beantworten, erhalten Sie einen Geschenkgutschein von Amazon.de® im Wert von 15 € (für die ersten 250 Teilnehmer, die die Befragung vollständig durchführen).Zusätzlich nehmen Sie an einer Verlosung teil, bei der Sie einen der folgenden Preise gewinnen können:

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15 May 2026

20260518 Digital Production Newsletter

FMX is done, which means the industry has completed its annual Stuttgart ritual of panels, hallway archaeology, and explaining production problems over coffee. Back at the desk, the news pile is not exactly modest: Boris FX updates Continuum, Blender drops Singularity in 4K HDR, Artineering Flair reaches macOS, ZEISS brings lens behaviour into Nuke, and VES tries to make on-set data slightly less tragic.

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28 April 2026

202605Evansresearch

Evans Research Associates ist ein unabhängiges Marktforschungsunternehmen und führt eine Studie durch, um die veränderten Bedürfnisse der Nutzer von Videoprogrammen zu ermitteln. Die vollständige Befragung nimmt, abhängig von Ihren Antworten, ungefähr 12-15 Minuten in Anspruch.Wenn Sie zum gesuchten Personenkreis gehören und alle Fragen vollständig beantworten, erhalten Sie einen Geschenkgutschein von Amazon.de® im Wert von 15 € (für die ersten 250 Teilnehmer, die die Befragung vollständig durchführen).Zusätzlich nehmen Sie an einer Verlosung teil, bei der Sie einen der folgenden Preise gewinnen können:

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24 April 2026

20260427 Digital Production Newsletter

FMX is approaching, which means Stuttgart will soon be full of people explaining pixels, pipelines, perception, and why sound is apparently important after all. Pack headphones, business cards, and the traditional FMX survival kit: coffee, charging cable, and one facial expression for "interesting pipeline choice."

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10 April 2026

20260413 Digital Production Newsletter

This week, the update pile is pleasingly unglamorous: Our favourite Denoiser got smarter, animation tools got faster, OpenPGL got a new roof, Houdini library installs got less annoying, and Adobe somehow turned "DNG becomes ISO standard" into real news instead of an April 1 headline.

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17 March 2026

20260330 Digital Production Newsletter

Here we go again: the time since the last newsletter has been... interesting. Autodesk opened the stable doors and sent Maya, Max, and Mudbox galloping into the yard, complete with quadruped animation. Meanwhile, Sora and Pixomondo got marched behind the shed for the Old Yeller treatment. We are only genuinely sad about one of those, because Pixo actually mattered and shaped a fair chunk of the industry we care about.

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13 March 2026

20260316 Digital Production Newsletter

Another round of news to start the week. Everybody ready? This time featuring Abstract InstaMAT Studio 2026, the programme for this year's FMX, OmniScope's Live Pack and tyFlow 2, plus a handful of cool subscriber articles, including Pixar's Hoppers, HFF's No One's Light, MPC's Cold Storage, and, apparently, far too many apostrophes. And if none of that is your cup of tea, there is even a new film by Georges Méliès. Yes, that guy.

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9 February 2026

20260206 Digital Production Newsletter

Join us for a Monday Morning Coffee, where exports get faster, and nobody wants to see another FBX dialog ever again. Also, we put Pasta in an Espresso-Machine with Instamat, Blender is flirting aggressively with game engines, MetaTailor is trying to reduce wardrobe related pain, Adobe has discovered the concept of backing down, and glTF has decided that splats are, in fact, a thing now. Let's goooooo!

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16 January 2026

202620119 Digital Production Newsletter

So, welcome to 2026. Hope you had a good break, which was surely well earned. We did some loafing and backend-work ourselves, which you’ll see soon. (Testing and asking “Seriously? You’re shipping this?” takes longer over the holidays.)

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18 December 2025

20251222 Digital Production Newsletter

The year is effectively over. Not officially, of course, but functionally. Releases slow down and most teams quietly switch from shipping features to shipping themselves toward holidays, families, and calories. What remains is the liminal phase of December, where nothing urgent should be touched unless it is actively on fire, and even then only after a backup.

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28 November 2025

20251201 Digital Production Newsletter

So, the news cycle is slowing. We are entering the pre-holiday zone where releases turn into maintenance drops, and everyone quietly prepares for the annual migration toward Glühwein. The few meaningful updates that still matter have been gathered below.

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13 November 2025

20251117 Digital Production Newsletter

This is the last newsletter before Black Friday, and, if you’re anything like us, probably the last newsletter you’ll actually read before the sales-tsunami hits "Peak Screaming". You might have noticed we don’t do Black Week, Cyber Monday, whatever on digitalproduction.com, we’re already inundated as it is. We stick to tech, creativity, and the stuff that keeps your pipelines running.

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31 October 2025

20251103 Digital Production Newsletter

So, you survived the sugar-rush of Halloween, and are now bracing for the "Black week" or however long this sales event lasts. If you are as annoyed as we are by all of this, here's some VFX-stuff to keep you sane in the meantime. And, considering VFX "sane" says something about the state of the world. But nevermind! Post & CGI and VFX News! Woohooo!

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17 October 2025

20251017 Digital Production Newsletter

Welcome to the first bi-weekly Digital Production newsletter, now dropping every other Monday, so you can start the week properly caffeinated and mildly informed. Or the other way around.

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19 September 2025

20250919 Digital Production Newsletter

IBC Amsterdam is behind us! And yes, we survived the Deutsche Bahn odyssey (barely), and the joy of hauling gear across the RAI halls. It was worth it: we reconnected with old friends, bumped into new players, and discovered ideas that will bubble up in our interviews soon. Keep your eyes peeled!

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22 August 2025

20250822 Digital Production Newsletter (2)

It is autumn, and that means one thing: We’ll be at IBC, probably lost in Hall 7, holding a cold coffee and pretending we know the way to Stand D33. Are you coming too? Until we meet there, here are some news: Meshroom 2025.1 adds templates, plugins and photometric stereo; Reallusion’s AI Render goes open beta with ComfyUI integration; EIZO launches the CG3100X, promising colour accuracy that could expose every grading sin.

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1 July 2025

20250704 Digital Production Newsletter

So, in the middle of the heatwave, we are deactivating cores, routing the energy bill towards A/C and visiting beer gardens and parks far more often. So here is some stuff for you to read on your smartphone, while the Workstation is not pumping out even more heat.

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15 May 2025

20250515 DP Editorial

So, we are getting back into the groove, just after FMX - and what an FMX it has been! If you missed some talks, the VOD-area is up, and you can EASILY have a great talk every evening (Instead of TV) for the next couple of weeks. Since it was my 15th FMX (Counting the virtual one during Covid), I feel like furniture, and having seen pictures of myself from the first one I attended in 2009, I do look like a beanbag-couch. Jokes aside: It's always the "place to be", and there are a load of stories coming up: Dune Prophecy, West world, Cityengie, InstaMAT, Black point, Zeiss, Mental Health, an artists collective, Matchmoving Tipps, and Many More. Even though the overall mood was great, the industry is currently "Waiting for autumn", when new jobs are expected to roll in, and some analysts are looking positively into a currently gloomy future. Let's see what happens. In the meantime, there is something new on the DIGITAL PRODUCTION Site: Because of internal "founding/startup-shenanigans" the Subscribers Area is up, and the area for subscribers is ready - or should be, I'm no web designer. There you'll find the Complete Archive of PDFs going all the way back to 2007 (Just downloads, no additional Apps, no DRM), exclusive articles, access to all the already translated article and much more in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for that, it's going to be awesome! And because I'm trying to have the Digital Production available for everybody, the first 3 Articles you come too through Google or whatever are free, If you do decide to subscribe, you get a three-day trial before anything happens. We ALL have been trapped in subscriptions that overpromised and underdelivered.

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30 April 2025

20250501 Digital Production Newsletter

Another month gone, and we are gearing up for FMX - I hope to see all of you there! But before we are caught "uninformed" in the hallways and at the talks, here are some news you can tell people about!

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22 April 2025

20250424_Fachstudio zu Video-Software – Reminder

DIGITAL PRODUCTION führt gemeinsam mit Evans Research Associates eine Marktanalyse zum Thema Video-Software durch. Evans Research ist ein unabhängiges Marktforschungsunternehmen und führt diese Studie durch, um die veränderten Bedürfnisse der Nutzer von Videoprogrammen zu ermitteln. Die vollständige Befragung nimmt, abhängig von Ihren Antworten, ungefähr 12 Minuten in Anspruch.Wenn Sie zum gesuchten Personenkreis gehören und alle Fragen vollständig beantworten, erhalten Sie einen Geschenkgutschein von Amazon.de® im Wert von 15 € (für die ersten 250 Teilnehmer, die die Befragung vollständig durchführen).Zusätzlich nehmen Sie an einer Verlosung teil, bei der Sie einen der folgenden Preise gewinnen können:

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9 April 2025

20250509_Fachstudio zu Video-Software – Mitmachen und gewinnen!

DIGITAL PRODUCTION führt gemeinsam mit Evans Research Associates eine Marktanalyse zum Thema Video-Software durch. Evans Research ist ein unabhängiges Marktforschungsunternehmen und führt diese Studie durch, um die veränderten Bedürfnisse der Nutzer von Videoprogrammen zu ermitteln. Die vollständige Befragung nimmt, abhängig von Ihren Antworten, ungefähr 12 Minuten in Anspruch.Wenn Sie zum gesuchten Personenkreis gehören und alle Fragen vollständig beantworten, erhalten Sie einen Geschenkgutschein von Amazon.de® im Wert von 15 € (für die ersten 250 Teilnehmer, die die Befragung vollständig durchführen).Zusätzlich nehmen Sie an einer Verlosung teil, bei der Sie einen der folgenden Preise gewinnen können:

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18 March 2025

20250318-DP-Internal

Und die nächste Ausgabe des Internen DP-Newsletters. Falls sich jemand fragt, warum der anders aussieht: Der Newsletter-Versandclient und Versanddienst hat sich geändert. Bye Bye Mailchimp, Hello Mailgun/Mailster. Kostet weniger, und sollte besser funktionieren. Aber erst jetzt eingerichtet, weil OHNE Günter hat es (wieder mal) nicht funktioniert....

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14 March 2025

20250314 Digital Production Newsletter

Between the first projects of the year heading into Crunch time, the whole Technicolor/Jellyfish-thing, and the leftovers from the Winter blues, it is easy to miss stuff - which is why we have a list of the things you might find interesting ...

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