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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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