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Caddis Adds Particles, Loops and Animated Layouts
Caddis 1.1.0 adds particle simulation, graph loops, animated grids and Cryptomatte, with practical controls for procedural motion work.
MoonRay’s First ASWF Release Adds MaterialX
MoonRay’s first ASWF release adds MaterialX map graphs, HdMoonRay integration and production-focused lighting, volume and stability work.
Maverick Render 2026.1 Adds Cutaways
Maverick Render 2026.1 adds non-destructive cutaways, web spinners, fSpy matching, broader undo and a refreshed CUDA and OptiX core.
Rebelle 8.3 Adds EXR Heightmap Export
Rebelle 8.3 adds brush colour jitter, interactive selection controls, smoother gradients and Pro-only 16-bit EXR impasto heightmaps.
FilmLight fl-enhance: Baselight Tools Escape Into Python
FilmLight’s fl-enhance repository brings Baselight and Daylight scripts, shaders and FLAPI tools to GitHub, including LUT wrapping, ACES EXR transcoding and colour utilities.
Foundry expands Nuke Stage for LED walls
Nuke Stage now plays NotchLC, handles Gaussian Splats, logs on-set metadata in a Vault, and pushes USD scene edits into real time LED wall playback.
ZoneLAB for Resolve: Ansel Adams and even more zones…
ZoneLAB adds a Zone System grid to Resolve, then lets you grade by zone, export overlays, and match cameras and log spaces.
Autodesk Flame 2027: metadata and depth maps
Flame 2027 keeps frame metadata intact, adds frame annotations, and brings Depth maps plus OCIO 2.5.1. More pipeline glue, fewer hacks.
Open Light: Procedural HDR Lighting Without the Texture Archaeology
Open Light is a new tool that generates procedural HDR light textures. It builds softboxes, gobos, Kino Flo style sources and other modifiers as 32-bit EXR or HDR files, with support for ACEScg and resolutions up to 4K.
Galata.ink Ships Tamga Sculpt and Paint for Browsers
tamga brings lightweight sculpting, vertex paint, and ink style renders to web, desktop, and iPad, with quick OBJ handoff.
Blender 5.1 is here
Blender 5.1 boosts animation speed, adds Raycast and Mask to SDF, and shaves time off shaders and nodes. Free upgrades feel nice.
The GIMP Team boosts GIMP 3.2
GIMP 3.2 arrives with linked layers, vector layers, smarter non-destructive filters, and new export options. Less redo, more done.
Beeble Studio: 4K AI relighting on YOUR desktop
Beeble Studio puts 4K AI-powered relighting and full PBR pass generation on your own machine, no cloud uploads, no credits, just local GPU power.
Open HDRI: 25 Free 29K HDRIs (More to come)
A new online library offers 25 free HDRIs at up to 29K resolution, all under a CC0 license. Open HDRI provides ultra-high-quality lighting environments without sign-ups, tracking or licensing headaches.
DaVinci Resolve 20.2: Ripple Discipline, ProRes RAW, and AI Fog on Demand
Resolve 20.2 ships with ProRes RAW decoding on all OS, AI-driven haze, cleaner ripple edits, immersive EXR support, and metadata flexibility.
RV 2025: Onion Skin, Live Review, ARM Macs
RV 2025 arrives with Live Review (Beta), ARM64 macOS support, and onion skin annotations.
ACES Gets a New Home: Academy Hands Off Colour Science to the Academy Software Foundation
ACES, the open source color standard for film, is now under the Academy Software Foundation. The move aims for greater open collaboration and innovation.
Fusion 20: a deep look at the core
With its latest release, Blackmagic Fusion is positioning itself more aggressively than ever as a powerful and cost-effective complete package for node-based compositing and motion graphics. We check whether Fusion 20 lives up to the high expectations.
Blackmagic Fusion 20
At NAB, Blackmagic presented what is probably the most relevant update for Fusion since the
Acquisition of Eyeon. But what exactly is in it?
Red Poppies, Bears and Open Source!
Polish war drama Red Poppies (Czerwone Maki) brings the Battle of Monte Cassino to the big screen with over 400 VFX shots, 120 of which were crafted by Polish VFX studio Imaginary Pixels. And the team relied on open-source tools?
Using 3D Objects in After Effects
Since 2024, it has been possible to integrate 3D objects into After Effects Beta. The updated version of the Adobe compositing solution now also has this functionality.
FilmLight sends your frames!
FilmLight’s Nara simplifies media workflows and improves collaboration. And you don't even need to have Baselight in your pipeline! The latest version enables seamless progress reviews, approvals, and compliance processes—all without proxies. Interested?
How to Persuade Competing VFX Studios to Cooperate
How can you get a number of companies that are in extreme competition with each other and, therefore, do not trust each other to work together? You introduce an independent third organization in which all competitors are jointly involved.
Fallout becomes cinematic.
Paul Hatton catches up with Nikita Travnikov, an executive producer for Huuuge Games and 3D tinkerer - and we chat about the whole Fusion/Resolve pipeline!
We Hunt Giants
The short film "We Hunt Giants" takes the viewer into a world in which humans and dinosaurs fight for survival. Action, drama and CGI - without a Hollywood budget in the millions. Here is a brief insight into the making of the film and its visual effects.
Element-ary Asset Management
There's something with AI and industry relevance for asset management - and it's also from Munich. Do you already know the element?
More OpenEXR for Photoshop
The free EXR-IO plug-in for reading and writing OpenEXR files in a new version!
The virtual glue press:CineXtools from Cinedeck
Non-linear video editing with computers (NLE for short) has given us enormous freedom. Not only the fiddling with adhesive presses and cotton gloves, synchronised tape machines or even toxic carbon tetrachloride in magnetic magnifiers from the early days of videotape are a thing of the past. today, "cuts" are non-destructive and can be altered at will (sometimes all too often). But the whole thing has one disadvantage .....
IMF – and what it’s all about
IMF - Interoperable Mastering Format - has been around for a few years now. After a somewhat slow start, however, IMF experienced a boom at the beginning of 2O16 at the latest, when Netflix made it its main delivery format. What IMF is and what it is supposed to be good for, however, is still largely unknown to the broad masses of the media industry. This article is intended to provide a brief introduction to the format, shedding some light on its peculiarities and advantages as well as the costs involved. As the cover image suggests, this article will not be a colourful creative experience - but have fun anyway.
The open libraries of Hollywood
At this year’s FMX there was a talk „Open Source Software in the Motion Picture Industry – An Investigation by the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences”. In a full room David Morin presented the
results of a survey about Open Source libraries in use in the Motion Picture Industry right now, from a survey done with big studios, software vendors, developers and CTOs – including a live Q&A with the FMX audience.
Free OpenEXR Plug-in, Part Two
The ProEXR plug-in for Photoshop and other Adobe programs for importing and exporting OpenEXR files is now also available free of charge.
Free: OpenEXR for Photoshop
You can now use OpenEXR in Photoshop with the new free “Exr-IO” plug-in. It lets you import render channels as layers and much more. We present the most important features.
ProEXR 1.7 Enables V-Ray HDR Image Support
With its self-developed ProEXR 1.7 plug-in package, software developer fnord enables the use of all functions known from OpenEXR in programs such as Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere products.
Autodesk Introduces Powerful Enhancements to Its Visual Effects and Finishing Systems
Autodesk today announced enhancements for the Autodesk Smoke 2009 finishing and effects system and the 2009 versions of the Autodesk Inferno, Autodesk Flame and Autodesk Flint visual effects systems.
dc days: Autodesk Toxik 2008 – VFX Artist Workshop
In cooperation with Dreamwalks, Autodesk gives VFX artists a deep insight into Toxik 2008
Shake 4.1 – universal and cheaper
Apple Shake 4.1 now also supports Intel Macs natively and costs only a fraction of the old price
SIGGRAPH: Hash Animation:Master 12
The US$299 3D program now includes improved cloth simulation
Dosch Design Introduces New HDRI Collections
Dosch Design adds Industrial Reflections and Radiant Skies HDRI collections to its portfolio
Discreet Announces Combustion 4
Combustion 4 for Windows is scheduled for March 2005, with the Macintosh version following in May.
Pixar Releases RenderMan Pro Server 12.0
RenderMan Pro Server 12.0 is available as a free download for registered RenderMan users.
3ds Max Plugin Adds OpenEXR Support
SplutterFish released a free 3ds Max and Autodesk VIZ bitmap plug-in for the OpenEXR high-dynamic-range image format.