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…
Last week, I saw a post from an artist who said something interesting. He had a job interview. He spoke to a human HR, but those conversations are actually recorded. Ten minutes later, he received a detailed report about who he is as a professional and as a person. Here’s the part that caught my…
1) Governments Are Now Funding VFX Like Infrastructure India’s 2026 Union Budget officially put the Orange Economy on the national priority list.That includes animation, visual effects, gaming, and comics. The plan is not just subsidies for studios. It includes creator labs inside thousands of schools and colleges to build a long-term talent pipeline. This is…
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…
Studios Are About To Train AI On Their Own Assets. Wētā Just Made the First Move. The announcement from Wētā FX and Amazon Web Services feels like a turning point for the visual effects industry. The partnership is not only about new AI tools for production. It signals the beginning of a major shift in…
Today we are going to breaking down one of the most important legal decisions taken by the court in AI because nothing brings people together like copyright fights and a giant , pile of digital confusion. So what exactly happened? Getty Images, the giant photo library got very angry at Stability AI, ah, that folks…
BlinkScript in Nuke is a powerful way to create custom GPU-accelerated tools, and here’s a fun example: BugSwarm. This script simulates a swarm of tiny bugs flying randomly inside a defined area, adding life and motion to a shot without the need for external particle plugins. This blink script works only Nuke 16 and above!!…
There’s been a lot of AI/ML stuff in Siggraph this year, but one thing that was quite interesting is the Image Engine paper about generating alpha mattes for persons/objects using Machine learning. It’s called “Automated Video Segmentation Machine Learning Pipeline” by Johannes Merz and Lucien Fostier. The artist just has to load the plate and …
Every time I open LinkedIn, it’s a wall of “Look at this amazing AI breakthrough!” videos and images 90% of which are half-baked, misinformed, and so far from production-ready it’s laughable. While Disney is busy suing Midjourney for copyright infringement, they also quietly teamed up with AI company Metaphysic to deepfake Dwayne Johnson’s face onto…
Scott Ross recently went on a bit of a rant on Film Talk Radio while promoting his new book and honestly, He said what most people in the VFX industry already feel but don’t always say out loud His exact words? “Clients are really interested in getting the work as cheaply as possible at the…
