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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Baselight 8: The feature list is the easy part
FilmLight explains why Baselight 8 adds mastering-focused audio tracks, a new linear-light grain model, Color Crosstalk, Color Correlation and ML-assisted Groups View.
Mocha Pro 2026.5 Tracks Through Trouble
Point Track ML tackles occlusions, shadows and drifting surfaces, while smarter matte tools and exports reduce routine cleanup.
Splat happens: Volinga 3DGS workflow for Unreal
Volinga turns photo sets into Gaussian splats for Unreal, with local processing, PLY and NVOL export, cleanup tools, and relighting support. But what does that actually mean? Let's ask some questions!
FMX 2026 program goes live
The FMX program is live for the 30th edition, with RENO pipeline lessons, generative video craft, and European collab on Predator: Badlands.
Nuke 17.0 rewires 3D and adds Gaussian Splats
Nuke 17.0 brings native splats, USD scene graph control, BigCat ML scaling and core performance gains.
Cascadeur on physics, AI and control
Cascadeur explains how physics solvers and local AI shape modern keyframe animation. Physics-assisted keyframing and AI-generated Inbetweening sound like shorthand for automation. In practice, they describe a layered system that revolves around explicit poses, timing and animator intent.
Rendering the Inferno at RiseFX: The Lost Bus
128 shots, 15 sequences, and GPUs on the brink: RISE FX’s Oliver Schulz explains how his team built the burning world of The Lost Bus.
Optics 2026 Adds AI-Driven Masks, Upscaling & Depth Tools
ptics 2026 integrates into Photoshop via a new panel and adds AI-based tools (DeNoise, UpRes, Depth Map, Face ML), plus updated Sapphire filters for stylised looks.
Houdini Equinox 2025 HIVE Session Recordings Online
The session videos from Houdini Equinox 2025’s HIVE event are now live! Covering Houdini 21’s car-destruction RBD tools, CFX for creatures, ML workflows and major production case-studies.
Houdini 21: Like good wine (Part1, VFX & Geo)
Houdini 21 polishes the chaos: production-ready MPM, neural surfacing, smarter Pyro, and Vulkan viewport upgrades: all taste-tested for real-world use. (Part 1 of ???)
Autodesk adds AI Assistants to Maya (and beyond)
Maya gets AI Assistants and Graph Assist. Autodesk outlines a larger AI push for artists.
SynthEyes 2025.5: Now With Fewer Headaches Per Pixel
SynthEyes 2025.5 lets VFX artists export lens distortion, harness AI for tracking, and parent meshes with less tedium. Now with 17K BRAW support.
Continuum 2025.5
Continuum 2025.5 expands its AI arsenal with automated masking, 2D depth mapping, frame repair, and UV warping—plus 8K titling and smoother FX editing.
Flame 2026: OCIO, Files and Timeline Magic
Discover the seven key innovations in Flame Family 2026—from OpenColorIO to AI-enhanced video quality.
Syntheyes 2025: ML-powered masks, batch processing and more…
Boris FX has just releases the latest version of its 3D Tracking and Matchmoving software, Syntheyes. Boris FX traditionally tries to utilize technology from its other software solutions in its various products, and Syntheyes is no exception, including Mask ML in the 2025 release.
Affinity 2.6: Machine Learning Tools to the Rescue
Affinity 2.6 adds machine learning selection tools, RAW format updates, brush panel search, and improved layer handling across Photo, Designer, and Publisher.
Why learn Python when there is A.I.?
Have you ever wondered if Python is becoming obsolete with the rise of A.I. and tools like ChatGPT? Why spend years learning a skill that can be solved in a single prompt?
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.
Let’s Fix it in Pod 02 Jobs and A.I. with Benjamin Wild
In this episode, Bela and Christoph tackle the possibilities and challenges that Machine Learning and A.I. are offering to the vfx industry.
Topaz Labs Launches Gigapixel AI v8
Gigapixel AI v8 from Topaz Labs introduces real-time image processing, boosting performance and compatibility for high-resolution workflows.
Let’s Fix it in Pod 01 Control Surfaces with Mazze Aderhold
In their very first episode, Bela Beier and Christoph Zapletal talk about control surfaces for an artist's workstation.
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.
Renderman 26 is here!
Highlights of RenderMan 26: XPU receives extensive updates that improve lighting support, camera control and adaptive sampling capabilities. Plus an interactive version of the Denoiser with ML and a stylised looks toolset. And the free, non-commercial version of RenderMan 26 is already available.
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.
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.
Creating realistic motion sequences with machine learning?
A five-person team from Ubisoft La Forge and York University is researching how realistic movements could soon be created - supported by a neural network.
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.
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.
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!
Pixar Discusses the RenderMan 24 Roadmap, XPU and Denoising
Pixar's RenderMan team discussed GPU adoption, XPU, memory demands, machine learning and denoising after the RenderMan 24 release.
Zibra Liquids Combines Real-Time Fluid Simulation with Machine Learning
Zibra Liquids entered early access with a Unity fluid plug-in combining physical solvers and machine-learning-based neural object representations.
Audeering Tool Reads Player Emotion from Voice
Audeering’s entertAIn play Unity tool classifies player emotion from voice for real-time game interactions.
SIGGRAPH Machine Learning Webinar
Disney Animation's Rajesh Sharma presented a free nine-part SIGGRAPH webinar on machine learning and neural networks for informed beginners.
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.
Autodesk University 2020 Call Archived
Autodesk University’s 2020 call sought sessions on VFX, visualisation, XR, AI, cloud collaboration and 3D printing. Submissions are closed.
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!
Autodesk | Flame 2020.2 with AI Mattes
The next Flame release arrives with new machine-learning features, Compare Tool updates and more!
MagicTints | AI Color Matching
MagicTints - the new color matching and grading plug-in for Photoshop, Illustrator, Affinity and more!
Into The Spider-Verse | FX Design
Particles, machine learning, simulations and destruction: a new and final VFX breakdown for Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse has been released!
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!
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!
Microsoft establishes research center for search and advertising technologies
New Internet Services Research Center (ISRC) is affiliated with Microsoft Research
