For those who don’t know the event: FMX is where post, VFX, and realtime folks compare notes, spot new workflows, and meet toolmakers from Foundry to AYON .

The 30th edition runs on site May 5 to May 7, with Online and On Campus on May 8, and On Demand from May 9 to June 9. Early Bird ticket options run until March 20. Tickets are sold through the ticket shop, and the full schedule is published as an online program schedule.

This year’s reveal is a broad spread across VFX, animation, and digital media creation, with more updates promised as additional speakers and topics get added. The headline message is simple: the program is live now, and it is designed to be browsed like a buffet. Get your preferred morsels here :)

RENO turns a studio inward

A newly confirmed session in the Shorts track focuses on RENO, an original sci fi short used as a live testbed for virtual production and machine learning workflows. The session names Tav Flett, Rob Hifle, James Pollock, and Paul Silcox, and describes how a traditionally post-driven VFX studio re-engineered its pipeline for a newly opened virtual production stage. It also calls out Gaussian splat scanning, automated rotoscoping, and marker removal as tools for streamlining production.

Generative video, now with shot notes

The hype cycle is almost over. The bubble tends to pop the moment somebody asks where this stuff fits into an actual production pipeline. That is the useful angle of Moonvalleys‘ session in the “The Road ahead” track. . Instead of treating generative video as a party trick, Ben Lock looks at what happens when studios try to use it for real: control, continuity, versioning, integration, governance, and all the other small details that usually kill shiny ideas on contact.

For VFX and animation teams, that is the point. Not more halfbaked sizzle reels, but a sober look at where generative video already helps, where it still breaks, which parts of the panic were never grounded in production reality, and when studios may begin hiring artists again once practical applications, and their many many limits, are easier to assess.

Predator: Badlands, built as a handoff

A joint presentation in the VFX for Features track names Laurens Ehrmann from The Yard VFX and Dominik Zimmerle from TRIXTER discussing work on Predator: Badlands. Shared assets, shared look development, and constant creative exchange across studios to ensure continuity while elevating environments, characters, creatures, and effects, plus a deep dive into selected sequences and the creative and technical challenges behind them.

And there is more to come! Much more!

https://fmx.de/en/program/program-2026/overview

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On April 29, 2025, at 10 AM distributor ComLine hosts a live session on Adobe Express—part product demo, part positioning statement, part classroom for creatives. Presented by Adobe Senior Specialist Sven Brencher and moderated by Andreas Christensen, Business Development Manager Software, the session will give attendees a hands-on look at Adobe’s fast-track content creation tool, now tightly integrated with Adobe Firefly and a native social media planning tool.

Rounding out the event team is Johannes Borm, Director of Marketing at ComLine, who acted as host and stage-setter for what turned out to be both a sales argument and a practical how-to.

Adobe Express: Streamlined Creativity

According to Sven Brencher, Adobe Express is not a stripped-down Photoshop or Premiere. It’s a purpose-built tool aimed at users who want to create content quickly and with minimal friction. Whether that’s for photo, video, web, or print, the software promises ready-to-go templates, brand kits, and drag-and-drop logic, without requiring full-scale Creative Cloud expertise.

Firefly Inside: AI That Thinks in Templates

A highlight of the session is Firefly’s integration into Adobe Express. Firefly is Adobe’s generative AI engine, which now sits at the heart of Express—offering real-time suggestions and layout proposals as users build out content. Brencher will demo how Firefly can propose visuals for social media posts, streamline graphic production, and aid in variation generation—all within the same UI.

The Social Media Planning Tool: No More Spreadsheet Sprints

Integrated directly into Express, Adobe’s social media planning tool lets users create, schedule, and publish posts from a single dashboard. Brencher positions this feature as a native alternative to external schedulers—giving teams the ability to plan entire content calendars without exiting the app.

Additionally, Borm notes that Express forms a compelling component in volume licensing scenarios—particularly for universities and schools, where simplicity, speed, and price-per-seat matter more than having every CC knob and slider.

Education, Simplified

One part of the session focusses on Adobe Express in the educational context. With institutions looking for tools that reduce onboarding time and keep learning curves low, Adobe and ComLine jointly frame Express as a lightweight but capable solution. The emphasis: fewer buttons, faster output, and a good-enough-for-most-results logic.

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