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₹116 Crore Investment in VFX Zee Entertainment Enterprises announced a ₹116 crore investment into PhantomFX to expand VFX, animation, and AI-driven content production. The move focuses on building original IP, scaling studio capacity, and integrating advanced pipelines for OTT and global content delivery. This isn’t just funding, it’s a power shift. Indian studios are moving…

ComfyUI Just Solved a Huge Problem (Dynamic VRAM) ComfyUI introduced Dynamic VRAM, and this is actually a big deal. What changed: 👉 Why this matters:This is the first real step toward democratizing heavy AI workflows locally.Less RAM dependency = more artists can run advanced tools without upgrading hardware. OpenAI Shuts Down Sora OpenAI is reportedly…

Here’s a roundup of the major VFX news from the past week across creative tools, workflows, and open source developments: Seedance 2.0 — Next-Gen AI Video Generation Seedance 2.0 grabbed attention as one of the most talked-about AI video generation engines. It promises frame-level precision, multimodal input (images, video, audio, text), and consistent character and…

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…

The race for Best Visual Effects at the 98th Academy Awards is officially underway.Variety has released this year’s list of 20 contenders, highlighting some of the biggest blockbusters, long-awaited sequels, and a few surprising dark horses that impressed voters with their technical craft. This year’s finalists span sci-fi epics, animation hybrids, franchise revivals, and genre…

For more than two decades, Trixter has been one of Germany’s most recognizable VFX names. Founded in 1998 in Munich, the studio built a reputation for character work, creature animation, and superhero-heavy sequences. Their portfolio grew across major Hollywood titles, including Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain Marvel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Shang Chi,…

Noise reduction is one of the most time-consuming steps in compositing, especially for roto prep cleanup, CG integration, and live-action plates inside Nuke. Previously in Neat Video, users had to enable GPU manually For compositors working in Nuke (OFX),Now, Neat Video 6 handles it automatically. It detects available CPU and GPUs, optimizes settings on its…

AWS has officially announced that Thinkbox Deadline 10, the industry-standard render farm management tool used by thousands of VFX and animation studios worldwide, will enter Maintenance Mode on November 7, 2025. For many in the VFX world, this announcement feels like the end of an era. Thinkbox Deadline 10 has been the backbone of countless…

After a short one-week delay, Blender 5.0 Beta has officially landed and it’s a big one. The upcoming release focuses on professional color workflows, improved asset management, and expanded geometry nodes capabilities, making this one of the most production-ready versions yet. Next-Level Color Management: HDR, ACES, and OpenColorIO 2.0 Color handling in Blender just got…