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This time in Digital Production
October has arrived, which apparently means three things: supermarkets have decided it is Christmas, software developers have decided everything needs an AI interface, and we have once again accumulated enough interesting things to justify bothering your inbox. This time, Cinema 4D gets an MCP server, Blender welcomes Gaussian Splats into the house, Tripo tries to convince us that AI-generated geometry can contain actual quads, Beauty Box has learned to find teeth, and Higx Optics would quite like to ray-trace the glass in your virtual lens instead of merely pretending there was glass there. So, essentially, a perfectly normal fortnight. Your next career move could involve building worlds, or helping film crews plan what happens inside them. Our friends at HSHL have two research openings in Lippstadt: Digital Locations (apply now) turns scanned locations into photorealistic Unreal Engine environments, while ProSys OSVP (apply now) puts Unreal Engine and C++ to work on digital twins for virtual-production stages. If your idea of a satisfying day involves polygons, code and a very large LED wall, these deserve a look. Both offer applied research, flexible working arrangements and a university team to build with. Apply by 20 October 2026; your next environment could be a new workplace.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Exclusive for subscribers
Behind the subscriber wall this time, we have codecs, render farms and procedural instancing. In other words, three subjects guaranteed to make "normal" people suddenly remember they have somewhere else to be. InterX stuffs FFmpeg-backed encoding and rather a lot of codec controls directly into DaVinci Resolve. We also look back at 25 years of Royal Render, including the dark ages when distributing a render job across several machines was itself approximately a full-time job. And Fridays for Fusion takes on Instancer2D, procedural instancing and the important question of how many copies of something you can create before your GPU begins quietly reconsidering its career choices. Subscribers get the whole lot. Everyone else gets this paragraph and an conspicuous subscription button.
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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.
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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
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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.
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So, with that in mind ...
And with that, we return you to your renders, grades, comps, meshes, codecs and whatever fresh emergency somebody has just described as "a tiny last-minute change." One important matter before we go: Christmas is around the corner. Yes, it is only October. We know. But the supermarkets are already selling Christmas cookies, which means society has abandoned any commitment to the calendar. Fine. If they can have Christmas season in October, we can have Backup Season. So: have you prepared the backup that is supposed to carry you safely through the Christmas break? Not the backup job that has been "running successfully" since 2022. Not the NAS sitting underneath the workstation, servng as a footrest. Not the drive permanently attached to the machine it is backing up. And definitely not "everything important is probably in the cloud somewhere." An actual backup. Preferably more than one. Preferably tested. Preferably with at least one copy somewhere that cannot be encrypted, deleted or enthusiastically reformatted along with everything else. The shops have Christmas cookies. We have Backup Season. We're making this a thing. Bela and the Floof
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Digital Production · Bela Beier UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Munich, Germany
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