Topicrooms VFX

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…

Foundry has added three more machine learning models to Cattery, its open-source library that lets you run AI models directly in Nuke using .cat files. These models help with mattes, depth maps, and slow-motion frames but ViTMatte and DepthPro only work with Nuke 16. Here’s a quick look at what’s new: 1. ViTMatte – Cleaner…

Fluid Morph Using ComfyUI – A Smarter Way to Fix Bad Takes Ever had a director ask to remove a performance from a shot after the footage is locked? Yeah, it’s one of those classic post-production headaches. In this tutorial, the presenter walks us through how to fix that kind of problem using both traditional…

Every VFX Software updates now feels like an excuse to jack up the price. they’re just slapping “AI” onto everything to make it sound new, when it’s really just minor usability tweaks. Honestly, Mocha used to be the gold standard for planar tracking. Now it’s starting to feel like another overpriced app trying to cash…