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…
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…
Autodesk has officially released RV Player 2025, the latest version of its industry-standard playback and review tool, widely used across VFX, animation, and content creation studios. What is RV?If you work in VFX, animation, or post-production, chances are you’ve already touched RV it’s that little window where supervisors pause, scribble Zoom all over your comp,…
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…
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…
So here’s a comeback story you probably didn’t see coming: DJV 3.0 is out after five whole years. If you’ve ever worked in VFX or animation and needed a lightweight, open-source image sequence player, DJV was probably one of those tools you heard about but maybe never tried. Wait… what’s DJV again?DJV is like RV…
Blender just dropped version 4.5 LTS, and if you’re into VFX, animation, or game dev, this update is worth checking out. It’s not just another patch this one brings a bunch of solid upgrades and it’ll be supported for the next two years. One of the biggest changes? Vulkan is finally ready for real use….
