Adobe Research and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have teamed up to create TransPixar, a cool new AI model that makes Premultiplied visual effects stock footages like smoke, reflections, and magical portals—way easier and better. “Alpha channels are super important in VFX. They let transparent elements like smoke and reflections fit…
After months of speculation, NVIDIA has officially launched its RTX 50-series GPUs at CES 2025, setting a new benchmark in performance for desktop and laptop graphics cards. Touted as the fastest GPUs ever developed by the company, the RTX 50-series offers groundbreaking advancements in speed, efficiency, and AI capabilities. Pricing and Availability The lineup starts…
Irrealix, the team behind the popular Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) plugins for After Effects and DaVinci Resolve, has announced another breakthrough: Gaussian Splatting for Nuke. This groundbreaking plugin brings Radiance Field technology into Nuke’s industry-standard compositing environment, VFX professionals to import, manipulate, and render 3D Gaussian Splatting models in real-time with GPU acceleration. So What is Gaussian…
Let’s be real: custom nodes are the heart and soul of ComfyUI. There’s basically a node for everything—new open-source models, workflow sharing, gorgeous UI features—you name it. Heck, even ComfyUI-Manager is a custom node. But, with great customization comes great headaches. Custom nodes can cause messy dependency conflicts, eat up your storage with massive downloads,…
AI might reduce the number of people needed for traditional VFX tasks, but it’s also unlocking new creative horizons. One such role is the “FaceSwap Artist“, as recently advertised by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). This job offers a glimpse into how AI is reshaping the landscape of VFX work. What Is a FaceSwap Artist?…
To download and install ComfyUI, a modular GUI for Stable Diffusion, you can follow these steps for a quick setup: For Windows: For Linux: Additional Notes:
Creating detailed 3D meshes just got a whole lot easier with Meshtron by Nvidia Research, a cutting-edge tool that combines smart architecture and innovative techniques to produce artist-quality 3D assets. What Makes Meshtron Special? Meshtron uses a design called the Hourglass Transformer, coupled with sliding window attention, to efficiently generate 3D meshes. Its clever approach…
OpenAI is gearing up to revolutionize video creation with Sora, an AI model capable of generating 1-minute videos from text, text+image, or text+video prompts. The announcement was made by Chad Nelson during the C21Media Keynote in London, where he revealed that the technology would be available “very, very soon.” Sora’s capabilities, as showcased, are groundbreaking….
A crypto-mining malware attack has been identified in certain versions of the Ultralytics ComfyUI pip package, potentially affecting users on Mac and Linux. The compromised versions, v8.3.41 and v8.3.42, have been found to download and execute a malicious binary on these systems, while Windows users remain unaffected. What Happened? The malware downloads a binary file…
Cascadeur, the AI-powered animation tool, has released its latest update, Cascadeur 2024.3, bringing an array of exciting features aimed at enhancing animation realism and control. This update is poised to become a game-changer for animators and developers alike. What’s New in Cascadeur 2024.3? 🌀 Ragdoll Physics: Your characters can now literally bump into stuff—and it…
