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Digital Production, 2026/01/19
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Is it safe to come out yet?
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.) But we’re back at it, and when you’re already bored of your freshly polished workstation, here’s something to make your storage, GPU, and CPU sweat again. A Sapphire course, real volumetric fog in Nuke (yes, you read that correctly), and more.
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No More 2D Smoke and Mirrors: Volumetric Noise for Nuke
Compositing Academy releases Volumetric Noise for Nuke, a raymarched plugin generating true 3D volumetrics with lighting and occlusion.
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Sapphire gets the “Essentials” treatment
Boris FX adds a free 11-part Sapphire Builder Essentials course to its training library, covering professional multi-host workflows.
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PFTrack 2025: Matchmoving gets its groove back
The Pixel Farm’s PFTrack 2025 delivers major lens, tracking, and mesh improvements plus new perpetual licence options.
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Bury Your Good Intentions in 3D
Over 300 stylised graveyard assets from Cryptic Realms are free on Fab until 27 January 2026.
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Apple Bundles Its Ageing Pro Apps in Subscription
Apple groups its older creative tools under the new Creator Studio plan, mostly for Apple-loyal users rather than working pros.
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Some Monsters for our subscribers
This time: Live FX turns your laptop into a VP server that may or may not need therapy, Digital Domain returns to King’s haunted town, and a student proves solitude is still the best rendering engine. If you are not subscribed yet, this is your gentle reminder that the good stuff is behind the button.
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Assimilate Live FX: The VP-Stages’ very, VERY nervous system.
Live FX turns a laptop into a virtual production media server, driving LED walls, lights, compositing, and colour.
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Digital Domain welcomes IT to Derry
Digital Domain supervisors break down the design, rigging, lighting, and animation challenges behind the Skeleton Man for HBO’s return to the Stephen King universe.
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How I Spent Five Years Making a Solo 3D Film
Maxim Gehricke spent five years creating his solo 3D short film SEN. Here’s how he did it without funding, team, or sleep.
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That's it, except....
This time, we got something very different. I recently had a conversation with Julien Klein, whom many of you will know from the Beyond Normal story.
And when I say long, I mean there is a video of the conversation and it runs for almost three hours. (Also as an audio podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, because my face is not a selling point). Julien is currently editing it into more digestible pieces and will publish those on his site, but if you are in the mood for a bucket of inadvisable opinions from yours truly, the complete version is available. It is three hours of two people pretending this will be a short conversation, then immediately failing.
We talk about how to make yourself an easy VFX/Post-hire, and why consistency beats algorithms every time, even when the algorithm promises it loves you back. We get into how to treat AI in writing, how to write without turning it into a sacred ceremony, how to beat imposter syndrome, and a pile of tips from someone who has been watching this industry from the sidelines for 15 years and taking notes.
Along the way there are questionable jokes, surprisingly practical career advice, a genuinely useful method to stop doomscrolling and how to regain control of your attention, hidden under a layer of sarcasm and old-media grumpiness. As always with something of that length, nobody is angry if you do not watch all of it. Nobody is angry. Just oh-so-slightly dissapointed. Just kidding. Greetings,
Bela and the Floof
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