2026 VFX Emmy Awards: Apple TV Dominates VFX Nominations
The Television Academy has announced the 2026 Emmy nominations for Outstanding Special Visual Effects, with…
2026 VFX Emmy Awards: Apple TV Dominates VFX Nominations
The Television Academy has announced the 2026 Emmy nominations for Outstanding Special Visual Effects, with Apple TV emerging as the biggest winner in the season and movie category. Apple secured three of the six nominations through Foundation, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, highlighting the platform’s investment in large scale science fiction,…
Snowfall in Nuke using BlinkScript
BlinkScript-based snowfall and wind turbulence tool designed for Nuke 17, offering a fast, GPU-accelerated alternative to traditional particle systems for creating atmospheric effects.
Weekly VFX News updates
1. Adobe Acquires Topaz Labs Adobe is buying Topaz Labs! If you’ve ever used Topaz Video AI, Gigapixel AI, or Photo AI, you already know how powerful these tools are. Adobe says they’ll continue working as usual while the deal is being completed. Now this is more than just another company acquisition. Topaz has some…
The VFX Overtime Debate Nobody Wants to Talk About
The visual effects industry has never been a stranger to overtime discussions. Recently, another debate surfaced online around unpaid overtime in VFX, and as expected, the reactions were divided. Some artists argued that if someone worked extra hours, they should be compensated. Others questioned whether all overtime is actually caused by unreasonable workloads, suggesting that…
Why Foundry Bought Griptape?
Foundry just revealed something MUCH bigger. And weirdly… almost nobody is talking about it properly. Because this is not just another AI tool announcement. This is potentially the beginning of AI becoming part of the actual VFX pipeline itself. And if you use Foundry Nuke… this becomes VERY interesting. Because after reading about Griptape… I…
How Star Wars Created Modern VFX
Back in the 1970s, Hollywood thought science fiction was dead. Studios believed audiences had moved on. Big space adventures were considered risky, expensive, and impossible to market. And then a young filmmaker walked into meetings carrying a strange script called The Star Wars. Nobody wanted it. The script sounded bizarre. It talked about Jedi knights,…
Netflix Launches AI Animation Studio INKubator
And It May Signal a Bigger Shift for the Animation Industry Netflix is officially moving deeper into AI-powered animation production with a new internal initiative called INKubator. According to reports from Cartoon Brew and other outlets, the company is building a studio focused on “GenAI-native” animated workflows for shorts and special projects. The initiative appears…
VFX Weekly | FMX 2026 | Freepik | LTX-2.3 | VES
Freepik Rebrands to Magnific Magnific, formerly known as Freepik, has officially rebranded itself to focus more on AI-powered creative tools. The platform is expanding beyond stock images into AI image generation, upscaling, 3D tools, and AI video workflows. Existing users can still use the same accounts and services. This shows how fast creative platforms are…
Mother’s Day in the VFX Industry
Most people only see the final shot. The explosion.The de-aging.The giant creature.The Marvel credits rolling at the end of the film. But behind many VFX artists, there’s usually someone else quietly supporting the journey:their mother. Not because she understood compositing, rendering, or rotoscoping.Most of the time, she didn’t. She probably thought Nuke sounded like hacking…
Corridor Key is NOT a green screen revolution
There’s a familiar pattern in VFX every few years. A new tool drops.A demo looks impressive.And suddenly, people start calling it a “revolution.” That’s exactly what’s happening with Corridor Crew’s Corridor Key. It’s a smart tool. It’s interesting. It’s genuinely useful in some cases.But calling it a green screen revolution ignores how compositing actually works….
