Nuke’s classic 3D projection workflow is something every compositor knows well. It has been the foundation for set extensions, texture reprojects and matte painting work for many years. With Nuke 17, Foundry introduced USD support, which brings a completely new approach to projections and scene management. If you are moving from the old system to…
Imagine every 3D file format you’ve ever used, Alembic FBX, OBJ, camera exports, Geo exports, layout exports, and lighting metadata, all live in separate folders, breaking every time when someone updates something. What if the entire 3D world had a 1 common language? One single way to describe every model, light, and animation, and that’s…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Foundry has officially released the Nuke 17 Open Beta, marking another step in their ongoing journey toward a USD-based workflow something they’ve been teasing since Nuke 14. The new version get refinements, better 3D organization,Some of the key highlights include: Improved USD and Scene Graph supportGeo stacking, path masking, and pruning New snapping and constraint…
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…
