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…
Generating detailed asteroids or rocky debris usually means sculpting assets, projecting textures, or relying on 3D renders. For many comp tasks this is far more than what is needed. A lot of shots only require a single turntable element, a drifting foreground rock, or a stylized asteroid field. With Nuke 17 and BlinkScript, you can…
Academy Scientific and Technical Awards Winners Announced The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed the recipients of this year’s Sci-Tech Awards, honouring innovators behind tech that drives filmmaking forward. This includes tools and systems that stretch from simulation and rendering to materials and shading. The ceremony is set for April 28, 2026,…
,The latest release of OpenRV 3.1.0 isn’t just another incremental update for a playback tool. It lands at a moment where the visual effects and animation industry is quietly reshaping how artists review work, collaborate, and build pipelines that aren’t locked into expensive, proprietary ecosystems. GIF movies are now supported directly in RV. It sounds…
If you’re working with USD in Nuke 17, you’ll hear the word Xform everywhere. But what does it actually mean, and why does it matter for your compositing work? In simple terms, an Xform in USD is a transform node a way of positioning, rotating, or scaling something in 3D space. But the story behind…
Comfy UI Updated Again!! Seriously, How Many Times Is This Now? That’s 38 official releases of core ComfyUI versions that are documented on the changelog during 2025 from early smaller patch releases (v0.3.40+) up through v0.5.1 in December. This does not count incremental pre-releases or desktop packaging versions, nor separate ComfyUI-Manager or community builds. At…
Foundry has quietly dropped one of the most consequential updates to Nuke in years. Nuke 17.0 is now in open beta, and for the first time, Gaussian Splats are a native citizen inside the compositor. On paper, it sounds technical. In practice, it signals a deeper shift in how environments, volumetric captures, and reconstructed worlds…
Nuke 17 just introduced one of the simplest but most useful workflow upgrades for compositors. It is a brand new way to create Backdrop nodes, and it actually makes organizing your node graph faster than ever.Here is how it works.. Nuke automatically creates a Backdrop that perfectly fits the selection area. No more dragging, resizing…
Boris FX has launched Silhouette 2025.5, the newest update to its industry standard rotoscoping and paint software suite. The upgrade further expands its AI-assisted matte tools, letting users select objects through natural language prompts and export the results as Cryptomatte data. The big new flex? Price check ( INR 💸) Silhouette, originally released two decades…
What if you could render 3D primitives directly inside Nuke, with lighting, shadows, reflections, and even depth maps without using scanline render or ray render node ? While many use it for image filters, color processing, or procedural textures, BlinkScript is powerful enough to handle raymarching algorithms. By combining BlinkScript with SDF math, we can…
