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Adobe’s Substance 3D Sampler 5.0: Now with Path Tracing
Adobe's Substance 3D Sampler 5.0 introduces AI-powered 3D material creation and photogrammetry.
DNEG’s Brahma Acquires Metaphysic
Brahma, the AI division of DNEG, has acquired Metaphysic, a leading developer of AI content creation technologies, to accelerate the development of AI-powered products for content creators across industries.
Out on its own: Twixtor Standalone
Twixtor standalone offers an easy-to-use solution for slow-motion video generation using AI, but it is slower than competitors. Topaz Video AI excels in speed and quality, making it the recommended choice, even if it doesn't come cheap. Which one is right for you?
Adobe’s FireflyAI Video Generation Now in Beta
Adobe launches its IP-friendly generative AI video model, Firefly, now available in public beta for Creative Cloud users.
TD Meetup 14: GitHub Copilot
Imagine an AI assistant that saves you hours while making your Python code faster, cleaner, and more reliable.
ComfyUI + NVIDIA Cosmos: AI for Artists, Not Teenagers
ComfyUI now supports NVIDIA Cosmos, transforming AI video generation into a serious tool for VFX pros. Text-to-video meets production pipelines—but test first!
IBC 2024 Adobe AI News with Anton Knoblach
A second IBC-Interview: Anton Knoblach talks about the new AI features coming to Firefly. This german interview is translated with the new subtitle translation in Adobe Premiere.
NVIDIA’s Project DIGITS: A Tiny Powerhouse for VFX Pros?
Project DIGITS pairs NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell Superchip with compact design, offering potential for VFX rendering, denoising, and AI workflows. Testing will tell.
iClone 8.52: A Major Leap for Animation Editing
iClone 8.52 delivers a highly anticipated update for professional animation editing, packed with groundbreaking features driven by user feedback. Despite its numerical step from 8.51, this release introduces transformative tools to elevate animation workflows.
Nuke Gets Splatted: Gaussian Splatting Plugin Debuts
Introducing Gaussian Splatting for Nuke: real-time 3D point cloud rendering with GPU acceleration, enhancing VFX compositing workflows.
AI Meets 3D: Meshtron Spins Up Smarter Meshes
Meshtron uses AI to generate 3D meshes with speed and flexibility. A promising tool for VFX, games, and real-time workflows—simplicity remains key.
Ronja Räubertochter Meets Generative AI: FMX 2025 Highlights Unveiled
Important Looking Pirates share VFX secrets for Netflix’s Ronja Räubertochter, while Martin Nebelong explores generative AI workflows.
Maxon One Winter Update Brings New Tools
Maxon’s winter release offers powerful updates across Cinema 4D, ZBrush, Red Giant, and Redshift, enhancing workflows for all the little VFX artists and designers who have been nice.
D5 Render 2.9: Enhanced Terrain and Workflow
D5 Render 2.9 updates: Terrain tools, AI-based lighting, and pipeline optimizations for smoother real-time rendering.
Wonder Dynamics Brings Real-Time Animation to VFX
Wonder Dynamics releases Wonder Studio, an AI tool promising real-time animation for 3D characters in VFX pipelines. Production-ready? Time will tell.
Pixell Upscaling System for VFX Artists
The latest entry into the world of AI-driven tools for post-production is Pixell, a new AI-powered video upscaling system designed with VFX artists in mind.
What you need to Know: Premiere Integrates AI Video Generation
Adobe rolls out new AI-driven video tools for Premiere Pro, including Firefly-powered features. Enhanced workflows, time-saving tools, and stable performance are the key highlights, and not making editors superfluos.
TD Meetup 10: ComfyUI in Nuke
What if we could create AI images directly in Nuke using ComfyUI?
Boris FX Updates Silhouette to 2024.5 with New Machine Learning Features
Silhouette 2024.5 introduces machine learning tools aimed at speeding up the roto and paint workflows for VFX professionals, enhancing efficiency and precision.
Howler 2025 Released
Howler 2025, the latest update from Project Dogwaffle, introduces AI-driven features for animation and FX, improving workflow for artists and VFX professionals.
DaVinci Resolve Version 19 – Speech recognition
The public beta version has been available for some time and once again offers numerous new functions. Blackmagic Design (BM for short) is still releasing improved versions every few weeks, but many of the new features are already relatively stable and allow initial tests.
Text-to-Animation-Generator?
Just say how the animation runs and it will be generated? That's possible, at least according to the makers of Saymotion. How well? You'll have to see for yourself.
TD Meetup 07: CopyCat – Machine Learning in Nuke
CopyCat is a Nuke node that “copies sequence-specific effects, such as garbage matting, beauty repairs, or deblurring, from a small number of frames in a sequence and then trains a network to replicate the effect on the entire sequence.
Comfy UI – AI for artists!
While some become the Stable Diffusion play child, and others lament the demise of the industry, we're staying out of this round of prophecy and looking at what you can really do with it as artists - and not as slightly brainwashed newsletter marketers.
We’re building an AI box!
Okay, we admit it: AI is slowly becoming interesting - even for everyday production. And as we see more and more tools that are relevant for artists, and not just for "tech bros", the more our workstation is glowing. So it's time for us to find out what it takes to work normally and what adjustments we can make to reconcile budget and computing power.
The discovery of slowness
Artificial slow motion, i.e. the calculation of additional intermediate images, has been around for a long time. The best methods to date have been called "optical flow", although this actually refers to the visual perception of movement in general. Now A.I. or neural networks are also establishing themselves here. We compare Twixtor 8, DaVinci Resolve 18.6 and Topaz Video AI 4.
TD Meetup 04: Visual Effects Job Security
How can we keep our jobs in an industry that has been unstable since its inception? How can we pursue our passions while providing for ourselves and our families?
Trailer! Artificial intelligence meets media production
Trailer here, trailer there, bang-boom here, bang-boom there. It's always the same - "produce the coolest, never-before-seen trailer" to get people excited, encourage them to go to the cinema, watch a film on TV or on the streaming portal of their choice. And then came AI...
EbSynth – a tool for animations from videos by style transfer of reference images
EbSynth is a free, beta-tested video animation software that enables AI-powered image manipulation. Users can create keyframes and apply effects, although the simple user interface is challenging. Although the results are promising, the programme requires planning and practice to achieve high quality animations.
TD Meetup 01: A.I. Introduction
Our 1st TD Meetup event is about tackling the topic of A.I., Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Visual Effects, Animation, and Gaming industries.
Adobe-Autumn-Update
Premiere, AE and Firefly get the IBC polish with new features and tools - 3D rooms, new tone mapping, auto-rotoscoping and Firefly is now commercially available!
Photoshop und Express Beta – Refill my Picture?
As soon as the Adobe Firefly beta is officially available to every Adobe Cloud subscriber, the features are also being introduced in the Photoshop beta and then immediately in the Adobe Express beta.
Firefly –AI for the Creative Cloud?
Everyone is talking about AI, and even in the general interest One of the points of criticism is copyright, as most programmes simply use the internet to learn how to generate images and text. Adobe has now also released an AI image generator with the beta version of Firefly, but it has a slightly different approach. I was one of the first beta testers to see how well it works.
Countdown to the FMX! 2 weeks!
Only 2 weeks to go until FMX! Now confirmed: Avatar 2r and Ant-Man and the Wasp, as well as expert panels on virtual production and AI-based voice and image generators.
Omniverse updates at the CES 2023!
At the Consumer Electronics Show, graphics card manufacturer Nvidia presented innovations for its Omniverse collab platform. AI tools, Blender extension and more.
Enter text – and a finished 3D object appears?
Point-E makes it possible to generate 3D objects using text input - in minutes, with manageable graphics performance. A development of the company OpenAI.
Motion capturing with Rokoko Video?
Still kicking (and performing MoCap): Technology company Rokoko releases its AI-powered web browser solution that allows users to transfer movements into 3D software.
The Cascadeur animation software is available as a full version!
The beta tests have been successfully completed - now the full version is being released. A five-minute video shows which new functions are coming.
What can iClone 8 from Reallusion do that the competition can’t?
Plask, Radical, DeepMotion, Pixcap and iClone 8 - these are the names of the mocap tools! Blender expert Russell Midfield pits the motion capture programmes against each other.
Switch several AI models in parallel: with this moving image software!
Video AI 3.0 from software developer Topaz Labs can now accommodate several AI models in one task at the same time! Plus AI-supported video stabilisation - and other improvements. A product announcement.
Saving audiovisual cultural heritage with Topaz Video AI 3.0
In DP 04:20, we have already tested the artificial intelligence for upscaling video. Topaz Video AI (TVAI for short), as it is now called in version 3.0, has, according to the manufacturer, been developed from scratch
developed from scratch to incorporate additional capabilities and enable the stacking of AI models with filters and parallel operation.
Generate images with the text-to-image AI Dall-E 2 in Microsoft Bing!
The Image Creator can already be tested in selected countries and will soon be available for the Microsoft Edge web browser.
Texturing ad nauseam dank Stable Diffusion
Using the image synthesis tool to create infinitely reproducible textures? Developer Travis Hoppe is working on the AI-supported texturing tool.
Gigapixel AI 6.0 released!
Four tropical birds for version 6.0: the latest release of Gigapixel AI. Increase image resolution now with the power of artificial intelligence! Polly wants a biscuit?
Deepfake with Autodesk Maya!
Want to shock your audience at the next video conference with a lifelike Tom Cruise mask? Then fire up Maya now and download DeepFace Live!
Plask | Great tool
With this free tool you can animate in the web browser - including motion capturing function.
TensorFlow.js Brings Real-Time 3D Pose Detection to the Browser
TensorFlow introduced a free browser API for real-time pose detection using TensorFlow.js, MediaPipe BlazePose and the GHUM model.
Canvas | Sketching-App
News from Nvidia: GauGan is now called Canvas. Using AI to conjure up works of art on digital canvases!
ArtEngine 2021.5 Adds Project Sharing and AI Feature Selection
Unity’s ArtEngine 2021.5 added project export and Feature Selector, an AI-assisted tool for segmenting images into maskable regions.
FMX 2021 Adds Digital Humans and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Sessions
FMX 2021 announced sessions on AI-driven digital humans, voice synthesis and Goodbye Kansas’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla commercial.
Adobe Offered 20% Off Selected Creative Applications
Adobe offered a limited-time 20% discount on selected Creative Cloud applications including Premiere Pro, After Effects and Audition.
Simon Says Adds AI Transcription to DaVinci Resolve on macOS
Simon Says integrated AI transcription, captioning and translation with DaVinci Resolve for macOS, including frame-accurate subtitle editing.
Audeering Tool Reads Player Emotion from Voice
Audeering’s entertAIn play Unity tool classifies player emotion from voice for real-time game interactions.
Unity Learn Is Now Free
Unity made more than 350 hours of Unity Learn Premium training freely available, including AI, C#, AR, VR and visual-fidelity courses.
SIGGRAPH 2020 Papers Moved Online
SIGGRAPH 2020 presented more than 150 technical-paper projects spanning stylisation, cloth, fluids, MPM, portraits and tactile rendering.
And Here Comes Flame 2021
New machine-learning features, Physical Defocus effect, finishing updates and more: Flame 2021 from Autodesk comes with several practical new features.
DAIN App | HFR and Slow Motion with AI
HFR and slow motion from clips with low fps: With the help of DAIN, you can now have your videos interpolated yourself in this APP!
Maya 2020 Is Here with Arnold 6 GPU Rendering
And Maya 2020 is already here: Autodesk's new release adds new features and, above all, takes Arnold GPU out of beta.
Flame 2020.3 with Maya and Mudbox Workflow
Flame 2020.3 is here and brings a new Send to workflow to the VFX, compositing and finishing application.
Autodesk | Flame 2020.2 with AI Mattes
The next Flame release arrives with new machine-learning features, Compare Tool updates and more!
AI Detects Photoshop Manipulation
Detect image manipulation? This neural network specializes in detecting image warping!
Does Alex make Toni unemployed?
A look back: How does audio AI work in practice? "Alex Audio Butler" consists of VST plug-ins that are designed to handle the sound mixing independently. The big players in the VST game: DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition.
AI Denoiser for Blender 2.8
D-Noise is a free add-on for Blender 2.79 and is now also available for 2.8 in a new version!
Nvidia AI 2018: 3D Worlds and Super SloMo
When the researcher dances Gangnam Style: Nvidia looks back at 2018's most interesting research projects in AI and computer graphics!
Unity: Visual Effect Graph and CineCast
At Unite LA 2018 there was a sneak peak at these two new features in Unity.
Nvidia AI Denoiser Integration
With the latest updates, Clarisse, finalRender and V-Ray (beta) include the Nvidia OptiX AI Denoiser - Redshift already has a preview build too
Preview: AI Denoiser from Nvidia
Fast GPU render results thanks to AI Denoiser: working with Nvidia, here are OptiX 5.0 previews for Redshift, V-Ray, Clarisse and Final Render!
Photoshop: Cutouts with Sensei
Adobe presents an upcoming Photoshop feature: With “Subject Select”, you can have objects selected and cut out automatically.
Vimeo Now with 8K and HDR
The Vimeo platform now also supports 8K videos and HDR features with a newly integrated HEVC/H.265 codec and BT.2020!
Adobe MAX 2017: 11 future technologies
A look into the future: At Adobe MAX 2017, there were insights into tools for upcoming releases - including Scene Stitch, Deep Fill, Project Cloak and more.
Crowd Simulation: Golaem 6 Released
Golaem 6 with many new functions: Including simple traffic tools and precise control of character behavior with more than 100 channel operators.
Massive Simplifies AI Crowd Simulation
With the Parts Library from crowd simulation software manufacturer Massive, simulations of the Run Agents can be created faster and more easily.
Autodesk intends to acquire Kynogon SA, the market leader in artificial-intelligence middleware for use in video games
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Kynogon SA. Kynogon SA is privately held and produces the Kynapse AI middleware. Further details of the agreement were not disclosed.
living-e AG secures new growth potential with takeover of Xtramind Technologies GmbH
living-e AG, a specialist in Corporate Intelligence Applications, and Xtramind Technologies GmbH, a provider of communications solutions based on artificial intelligence, are joining forces with immediate effect. With the takeover of Xtramind Technologies by living-e, both companies combine their expertise in the field of knowledge and information management.
Natural Motion Releases Endorphin 2.7
Character animation software with new fluid effects, control panel plug-in for Maya/ Also as a Learning Edition
SIGGRAPH: Euphoria and Morpheme Complement Endorphin
Natural Motion is showing three new products at Siggraph
SIGGRAPH: Three New Morgan Kaufmann Books
Three new practical titles cover animation, character design and artificial intelligence.
Free Endorphin Learning Edition Available
NaturalMotion offers its animation solution without motion-file export for non-commercial use